superpowers: lv.1

Question 1

Which came first: cominform or the iron curtain speech?

Answer 1

the iron curtain speech

Question 2

what came first: hiroshima + nagasaki or the ussr tests of their nuclear weapons

Answer 2

hiroshima + nagasaki

Question 3

which came first: USSR ICBMs or USA ICBMs?

Answer 3

USSR

Question 4

Which came first, the Hydrogen Bomb or the ICBM?

Answer 4

Hydrogen Bomb

Question 5

Which came first: US HBomb or USSR Hbomb

Answer 5

USA hydrogen bomb

Question 6

who came first: stalin or Krushchev

Answer 6

Stalin

Question 7

when was the warsaw pact?

Answer 7

1955

Question 8

what is the order of the conferences?

Answer 8

tehran => yalta => potsdam with dates of pre-1945, 1945 and 1945 respectively

Question 9

WHen was nato formed?

Answer 9

1949

Question 10

why was nato formed

Answer 10

because of the berlin crisis which also caused the berlin airlift to solve the issue.

Question 11

what occured after the geneva summit?

Answer 11

camp summer david => paris summit and then the U2 incident where a U2 spy bomber plane was shot down by the soviets and was caught.

Question 12

who died at the end of the korean war?

Answer 12

Stalin

Question 13

who gave away czechoslovakia?

Answer 13

Great Britain

Question 14

what was the secret speech?

Answer 14

Lenin’s will stated that he didn’t trust Stalin and believed that he would abuse his power :: he did end up abusing his powers to cause widespread tyranny.

Question 15

what happened after the secret speech?

Answer 15

Rakosi left the office thus leading the Nagy’s demands which eventually led to the Hungarian revolution

Question 16

What happened after the Hungarian Revolution

Answer 16

the USSR invaded Hungary as a show of strength

Question 17

why did the USSR invade hungary?

Answer 17

to show to it’s other satellite states that the USSR would take back the state by force if required.

Question 18

What was Bizonia?

Answer 18

It was an amalgamation of British and German administrations in the allied occupied zones in order to foster economic recovery

Question 19

What was Trizonia?

Answer 19

British Governance extended to include the French occupation zone on the 1st of August 1948 leading to further deterioration of relations between the four occupying powers.

Question 20

what did the establishment of Bizonia and Trizonia lead to?

Answer 20

FRG (Federal Republic Of Germany) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic) being established Comecon being formed

Question 21

What was comecon?

Answer 21

a council of mutual economic assistance and was established in January 1949 to facilitate economic growth of the eastern countries belonging to the satellite states.

Question 22

What was cominform?

Answer 22

the communist information bureau – agency of international communism who mainly focused on publishing international propaganda

Question 23

What occurred after the occupation of Eastern Europe?

Answer 23

the Iron Curtain speech which was given by Winston Churchill which stressed that Britain and the United States needed to act as the guardians for peace and stability against the menace of Soviet Communism by forming an “iron curtain”

this led to the long telegram which was an 8k long telegram which prompted US enquiries about Soviet behaviour especially with their refusal to join the World Bank. – written by George Kennan

Led to the Truman Doctrine which was a speech to the US Congress declaring economic and military aid in the form of martial aid to the governments of countries threatened by the expansion of Communism – such as Greece and Turkey.

Question 24

When was JFK elected president?

Answer 24

1961

Question 25

What occured after JFK was elected in the year that he was elected?

Answer 25

Bay of pigs invasion – a failed attack launched by the CIA as an attempt to push Castro From Power

Question 26

What was the name of Cuba’s leader?

Answer 26

Fidel Castro.

Question 27

What occurred after the bay of pigs invasion as response

Answer 27

Cuba allied with the USSR and this caused the Cuban Missile Crisis – this was where they were the USSR setup ballistic missiles, this was due to Krushchev promising that he would help Cuba out and had assumed that the US wouldn’t do anything to stop them from shipping small to medium sized ballistic missiles to Cuba to build launching sites, would be able to hit significant amounts of eastern US, U2 spy planes had seen this and the soviets knew of such as they had spotted them.

Question 28

when was the cuban missile crisis

Answer 28

1962

Question 29

what did the CMC lead to?

Answer 29

a hotline being established which eventually led to a limited test ban treaty (for nuclear weapons.) – hotline was to prevent things such as the CMC from happening again as it almost trigged MAD (mutually assured destruction) and ended life via nuclear war.