important superpower events

Question 1

what did the allies decide to do with germany and berlin during the wartime conferences

Answer 1

they split both germany and berlin into 4 zones for the main allied countries england, america, france and russia

Question 2

what happened in march 1948

Answer 2

trizonia was formed linking the zones of england, france and america

Question 3

what impact did the creation of the new currency (Deutschmark) in june 1948 have

Answer 3

made stalin angry as it made the trizonia richer, this lead to stalin plotting to remove trizonia from berlin

Question 4

what happened directly after the introduction of the Deutschmark

Answer 4

land routes to berlin were shut off from trizonia, leaving the people with nothing to survive

Question 5

what did operation vittles entail

Answer 5

the countries which formed trizonia flew supplies into west berlin

Question 6

when did stalin end the berlin blockade and what did this cause

Answer 6

it was ended on the 9th of may 1949, and it made stalin look like the bad guy as he had put all the people in west berlin in danger and failed

Question 7

what happened after people in hungary rioted in 1956

Answer 7

the strict leader Rakosi was replaced by a more lenient Nagy

Question 8

what happened after nagy tried to get out of the warsaw pact

Answer 8

khrushchev sent in soviet troops and restored order, killing nagy and replacing him with a strict communist kadar

Question 9

which leader of revolutionaries took over cuba in 1959

Answer 9

fidel castro

Question 10

what increased the usa’s feeling that cuba was leaning towards the ussr

Answer 10

they took over american land and made a trade agreement with russia

Question 11

what was the bay of pigs invasion

Answer 11

the americans trained 1400 anti castro cubans nut castro found out about this and had 20000 soldiers waiting for them, it inevitably failed

Question 12

what did the bay of pigs invasion cause

Answer 12

it made the usa look hypocritical as they had told the ussr not to decide the fate of their satellite states, it also pushed cuba and the ussr closer

Question 13

what happened in october 1962 that caused the usa alarm

Answer 13

ussr missile sites were discovered being constructed in cuba

Question 14

what did the usa do in response to the cuban missiles

Answer 14

he created excomm to help with decision making, they decided to make a naval blockade to stop the installation of the missiles

Question 15

what were the consequences of the cuban missile crisis

Answer 15

• direct phone line set up

- start of detente

Question 16

what did the new leader of czechoslovakia, alexander dubcek want

Answer 16

communism with a human face

Question 17

what did alexander dubcek announce in april 1968

Answer 17

that an action plan would be put in place to allow people freedoms, of speech and movement between countries

Question 18

what did the soviet union do after warning dubcek not to go to far with the freedoms

Answer 18

they used the warsaw pact troops to invade czechoslovakia on 20-21 august 1968

Question 19

what was a consequence of the czech spring

Answer 19

the brezhnev doctrine which told people that all communism must be unified