From Korea to Hungary

Question 1

Name for the division between North and South Korea

Answer 1

38th Parallel

Question 2

Domino effect

Answer 2

The American belief that if one country becomes communist then other countries would too

Question 3

Date of the beginning of the Korean War

Answer 3

25th June 1950

Question 4

Commander of the troops who helped South Korea

Answer 4

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 5

Year and month of formation of SEATO

Answer 5

September 1954

Question 6

Full form of SEATO

Answer 6

Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

Question 7

SEATO

Answer 7

A military alliance formed between Britain, France, USA, Pakistan, Australia etc.

Question 8

Year of creation of Soviet atomic bomb

Answer 8

1949

Question 9

Year of creation of American hydrogen bomb and its degree of powerfulness compared to the atomic bomb

Answer 9

1952, 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb

Question 10

Full form of ICBM

Answer 10

Inter-continental Ballistic Missile

Question 11

Year of creation of ICBM

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

Speciality of ICBM

Answer 12

The missile could fire a nuclear weapon at a target approx. 5000 km away

Question 13

New president of USA to replace Truman

Answer 13

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 14

Year of election of new American president

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

Date of Stalin’s death

Answer 15

5th March 1953

Question 16

New ruler of USSR to replace Stalin

Answer 16

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 17

Year of Khrushchev’s appointment

Answer 17

1956

Question 18

Term Khrushchev used for the USSR to live with the West without much conflict

Answer 18

Peaceful co-existence

Question 19

Warsaw Pact

Answer 19

Military alliance formed between USSR and Soviet-controlled satellite states

Question 20

Year and month of formation of Warsaw Pact

Answer 20

May 1955

Question 21

Term to describe countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact

Answer 21

Eastern Bloc