superpower relations and the cold war

Question 1

tehran

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

first successful usa atomic bomb test

Answer 2

1945

Question 3

yalta (1st)

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

potsdam (2nd)

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

ww2 ends

Answer 5

1945

Question 6

iron curtain speech

Answer 6

1946

Question 7

long and novikov telegrams

Answer 7

1946

Question 8

truman doctrine (usa supported greece = communists out of greece, tensions built, usa committed to europe)

Answer 8

1947

Question 9

marshall plan (usa promised to help european counties with financial and political aid)

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

communist government on czechoslovakia

Answer 10

1948

Question 11

cominform set up

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

coomunist government in poland

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

comecon set up (soviet promise of financial aid)

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

NATO set up

Answer 14

1949

Question 15

warsaw pact set up

Answer 15

1955

Question 16

hungarian uprising
tanks sent to control anti soviet demonstrations
nagy reinstated and convinced ussr to remove tanks
nagy released political prisoners
nagy published reforms and mainly he said hed withdraw hungary from the warsaw pact
khruschev decided nagy had gone too far and returned troops and tanks to hungary

Answer 16

october & november 1956

Question 17

socialists in cuba overthrow the president

Answer 17

1959`

Question 18

geneva summit

Answer 18

1959

Question 19

cuban misslie crisis
khrushchev to put missiles in cuba
kennedy desides to blockade cuba and search ships
kennedy informs the people
khrushchev says thyll force their way through and said theyll use nuclear missiles in the event of war
kennedy asks him to withdraw from cuba
khrushchev agrees if usa will withdraw from turkey
usa spy plane shot down over cuba. usa said to keep turkey secret
krushchev agrees

Answer 19

october 1962

Question 20

vienna summit

Answer 20

1961

Question 21

berlin wall built

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

detente

Answer 22

late 60s to early 70s

Question 23

outer space treaty

Answer 23

1967

Question 24

nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Answer 24

1968

Question 25

breshnev doctrine

Answer 25

1968

Question 26

prague spring

Answer 26

1968

Question 27

salt 1

Answer 27

1972

Question 28

helsinki

Answer 28

1975

Question 29

salt 2

Answer 29

1979

Question 30

soviet invasion of afghanistan

Answer 30

1979

Question 31

moskow olympics

Answer 31

1980

Question 32

la olympics

Answer 32

1984

Question 33

geneva summit

Answer 33

1985

Question 34

gorbachev becomes ussr leader

Answer 34

1985

Question 35

fall of the berlin wall

Answer 35

1989

Question 36

warsaw pact dissolved and gorbachev ramoved from power

Answer 36

1991