Key Events

Question 1

What was the 4 freedoms speech?

Answer 1

Made by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 
•Outlined the nations ideals
1. Freedom of speech/expression everywhere
2. Freedom to worship god
3. Freedom from want 
4. Freedom from fear

Question 2

What was the Atlantic Charter?

Answer 2

Made in 1941 by Roosevelt and Churchill without even consulting the USSR
• War aims
• Renounced any desire for land aggrandisement and asserted the right to self-determination

Question 3

Moscow Conference

Answer 3

• October 1944
• Churchill and Stalin not Roosevelt
• Discussed:
• territorial division of EE in a matter that would advance the interests and influence of the USSR and GB
• Established precedent for Stalin’s later expansion - rejected by Roosevelt, ignored by Churchill

Question 4

What were the Camp David Accords?

Answer 4

• First step in establishing peace between Egypt and Israel
• First recognition by an Arab Country of Israel’s right to exist
• Orchestrated by Carter
• 1978 September

Question 5

What was the Prague Spring?

Answer 5

Basically it was Czechoslovakia’s attempt to distance itself from the Soviet Union in August 1968
•attempted to assure Moscow of their loyalty due to the Hungarian disaster of 1956 didn’t work
•Brezhnev was in charge
•Brezhnev Doctrine was created to justify their invasion

Question 6

What was the NSC?

Answer 6

25 April 1950 Truman approved NSC 68 in light of China going Communist and USSR going nuclear
•It was a briefing paper created by the state department and the defines department on USSR and the likelihood of action
•Impacted US economic and military spending

Question 7

What was the 6 day war of 1967?

Answer 7

June 1967 - 5th - 10th
•War was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt
•Rather than wait to be attacked
•Israel launched a hugely successful military campaign
•Captured many strategic areas leading to domestic problems later

Question 8

What was SPUTNIK?

Answer 8

4th October 1957 USSR launched it’s first intercontinental missile
•demonstrated superiority technology
•clear advantage in arms race
•Gave Khrushchev more political might in Soviet Union and against US
•New phase in the arms race - same race
•Dec 1957 flopnik response by USA