Superpowers 1960s and 1970s

Question 1

34. Why was the Paris Conference of 1960 a disaster?

Answer 1

U2 spy plane incident

Question 2

35. How much extra money did Kennedy put into defence in 1961?

Answer 2

$3.2 billion

Question 3

36. Give the exact date the Berlin Wall was built.

Answer 3

13 August 1961

Question 4

37. Name the famous speech made by Kennedy in Berlin in 1963.

Answer 4

Ich bin ein Berliner

Question 5

38. Name the dictator of Cuba liked by America.

Answer 5

Batista

Question 6

39. Name the two men who led a revolution in Cuba in 1959.

Answer 6

Castro and Guevara

Question 7

40. Explain why President Eisenhower stopped buying Cuban sugar.

Answer 7

Castro took back land and businesses in Cuba from American companies

Question 8

41. How far away from America was the island of Cuba?

Answer 8

90 miles

Question 9

42. How much money did Khrushchev give to Cuba in aid?

Answer 9

$100 million

Question 10

43. How many Cuban exiles were trained by the CIA in the Bay of Pigs disaster?

Answer 10

1,300

Question 11

44. Give the month and the year when Cuba became Communist.

Answer 11

May 1961

Question 12

45. Give the exact date when the U2 spy plane spotted nuclear missile bases being built on Cuba.

Answer 12

14th October 1962

Question 13

46. How many ships were involved in Kennedy’s blockade of Cuba?

Answer 13

180 ships

Question 14

47. Give the date of Khrushchev’s second telegram and write what it said?

Answer 14

27th October 1962 and said America had to remove blockade and nuclear weapons in Turkey and Soviet Union would remove their missile bases from Cuba.

Question 15

48. Give the year when Khrushchev was sacked.

Answer 15

1964

Question 16

49. What French word was used to describe relations between the Superpowers after Cuba?

Answer 16

Detente

Question 17

50. Name the treaty which stopped the selling of nuclear bombs to other countries.

Answer 17

Test Ban Treaty

Question 18

51. Name the richest Soviet satellite state in Eastern Europe.

Answer 18

Czechoslovakia

Question 19

52. Name the hated dictator of the richest Soviet satellite state in Europe.

Answer 19

Novotny

Question 20

53. What were Dubcek’s reforms known as?

Answer 20

Prague Spring

Question 21

54. Name the Soviet leader who ordered an invasion of this European country in 1968..

Answer 21

Brezhnev

Question 22

55. How many Warsaw Pact troops invaded?

Answer 22

200,000 – 400,000

Question 23

56. What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?

Answer 23

No country could leave the Warsaw Pact or have any political party other than the Communist party

Question 24

57. Which 3 Communist countries did not approve of the invasion of 1968?

Answer 24

China/Romania/Albania

Question 25

58. Name the treaty which agreed to a 5 year freeze on the production of ICBMs.

Answer 25

SALT 1

Question 26

59. Name the agreement of 1975 where countries agreed to respect their basic human rights.

Answer 26

Helsinki Agreements

Question 27

60. Why was SALT 2 never ratified?

Answer 27

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Day 1979