NATO,The Warsaw Pact And The Arms Race Flashcards
What was created on the 23rd of may 1949
West Germany was created after the berlin blockade
What was Stalin’s response to the formation of West Germany
He created East Germany
Why was NATO formed and when
NATO was formed in April 1949
the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia and Stalin’s threat to Berlin meant that they needed a formal millitary alliance to protect themselves from the Soviet Union
What was the response of the Soviet Union to NATO and when
In May 1955 Stalin set up the Warsaw Pact due to West Germany being allowed to join NATO
It felt like to him Capitalism was right on his doorstep so he formed the Warsaw Pact with the Eastern European countries to form protection of the Soviet Union
What did stalin order his scientists to do once the USA developed the first Atomic bomb
He instructed them to work all out to devlop a soviet atomic bomb
When was the first Soviet Atomic Bomb achieved
1949
What was the USA’s response to the Atomic bomb of the USSR
The Hydrogen Bomb
What happened a year after the USA’S hydrogen bomb
The USSR developed one
What did the USA develop in 1957
The ICBM (Inter-Continental ballistic missile)
