The Cold War

Question 1

Superpowers

Answer 1

◍ USA - Democracy
◍ USSR- Communism

Question 2

Cold war Years

Answer 2

1945 - 1991

Question 3

Causes

Answer 3

◍Political differences between East and West
◍War disagreements
◍truman Doctrine
◍ The Marshall plan
◍ Capitalism vs. Communism

Question 4

War Disagreements

Answer 4

◍ Soviet union took control of countries in Eastern
Europe.
◍ A buffer zone was created in the West
◍ Churchill said the ‘‘iron curtain’’ was drawn across europe.

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Answer 5

◍ President Truman (USA)
◍ US said they would help any government under the threat of communism

Question 6

Marshall Plan

Answer 6

◍ US Plan to help economic recovery in Europe after WW2
◍Stalin seen truman doctrine and the marshall plan as a threat against the soviet union

Question 7

Importance of the cold war

Answer 7

◍ Danger of nuclear war
◍Art and Propaganda
◍ Space race
◍ At the brink of WW3

Question 8

Space race

Answer 8

◍ First man in space - Yuri Gagarin (USSR)
◍ First man on the moon - Neil Armstrong (USA)

Question 9

Berlin Blockade

Answer 9

◍Split Germany into 4 (Britian,France,US,USSR)

Question 10

Soviet view

Answer 10

◍ USSR Demanded huge reparations for their zone in East Germany

Question 11

Blockade and Airlift

Answer 11

◍USA and UK launched a new currency
◍Soviet Union cut off road, rail and canal links to West Berlin
◍Cut off power supplies from soviet union
◍Allies use airlift to get supplies to West Berlin

Question 12

Allies

Answer 12

France
Britian
USA

Question 13

Axis

Answer 13

USSR

Question 14

Blockade lifted

Answer 14

◍ Food rationed
◍ industrys closed down
◍ 125000 jobs lost
◍ Stalin realised he couldn’t win
◍ Lifted Blockade May 1949
◍ danger of world war ended for now

Question 15

Blockade Importance

Answer 15

◍ Soviet union not preped for war
◍ West and East Germany estasbilished
◍ Marshall Aid to West Germany
◍Communist-controlled state - East Germany
◍ NATO set
◍ Warsaw pact agreed
◍ Building of Berlin wall 1961
◍ Propaganda war

Question 16

Korean War 1950-1953

Answer 16

◍ Korea divided along 38th parallel after WW2
◍North Korea supported by soviet union
◍South Korea supported by USA
◍North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 17

Korean War Progress

Answer 17

◍United Nations organised UN forces to support South Korea
◍Led by Mac Aruther - advanced towards Chinese Border
◍Mao Zedong provided Chinese troops to back North Korea
◍Eisenhower in US and Khrushchev in Soviet union made peace
◍Truman replaced Eisenhower
◍Stalin replaced by Khrushchev

Question 18

Korean War Importance

Answer 18

◍ Death and Destruction
◍ World War Threats
◍America got new ally in Asia (Japan)
◍North Korea a communist state
◍South Korea- preposterous economy

Question 19

Cuban Missile

Answer 19

◍Batista - dictator of Cuba
◍Sugar exported to US
◍ Castro - communist leader took over
◍Nationalised sugar plantations
◍ took over US business
◍Castro got help from khrushchev soviet leader
◍US organised failed invation -Bay of Pigs
◍Soviet’s consructed missile sites in Cuba

Question 20

Cuban missile progress

Answer 20

◍kennedy of US ordered blockade of cuba -U2 spy planes
◍Dangerous pf nuclear war
◍ khrushchev agreed to dismantle missile bases if US agreed to not invade Cuba

Question 21

Cuban Missile Importance

Answer 21

◍Close to nuclear war
◍washinton -moscow hotline set up
◍Castro survived and maintained a communist state
◍ relations between US and Cuba was banned until 2014

Question 22

Space Race Developments

Answer 22

◍ developed MRI
◍ CAT SCANS
◍ Freeze-dried foods
◍Insulation
◍Water purification