the cold war :)

Question 1

what is capitalism?

Answer 1

a multiparty state where governments are elected in a democratic system, freedom of speech is guaranteed by law.

Question 2

what is communism?

Answer 2

one party state where opposition is brutally crushed by police. a high degree of censorship in society

Question 3

events which come under wartime alliances

Answer 3

nazi soviet pact (1939)
the atlantic charter (1941)
battle of stalingrad (1943)
yalta (1945)
potsdam conference (1945)

Question 4

nazi soviet pact (1939)

Answer 4

the nazis and ussr made a pact which allowed them to divide poland between them.
this caused the usa to have a lack of trust for the ussr.

Question 5

the atlantic charter (1941)

Answer 5

this was made to ensure economic and political freedom in europe. the us did not want the ussr to try and convert europe into communists.
different ideas meant the two countries could not agree for long.

Question 6

stalingrad (1943)

Answer 6

the ussr lost over a million men and wanted the us to help by opening a second front but they never.
this caused the ussr to lack trust in the usa.

Question 7

yalta (1945)

Answer 7

ussr wanted more dictatorships in europe (including germany) as they thought it’d give them more security post war.
us didn’t want want that and wanted to divide germany into 4 parts shared between themselves, the uk , france and ussr.
it was feared they’d fall out over their different ideas.

Question 8

potsdam (1945)

Answer 8

US were annoyed at the ussr for forcing eastern european countries to become communist. it was said an “iron curtain” had been drawn over europe.
the USSR had misunderstood and thought that they had said this was allowed.
this led to both sides feeling betrayed and threatened.

Question 9

the atomic bomb

Answer 9

was tested in a desert in new mexico on the 16 of july 1945 after 3 years of research and $2,000,000,000 spent.
vaporised the stainless steel tower it was tested in.
melted the sand to glass.
explosion equivalent to 67 million dynamite sticks.

Question 10

hiroshima attack

Answer 10

president harry truman gave japan a chance to surrender at the potsdam conference before dropping the bomb but the japanese prime minister suzuki declined. a few days later on the 6th of august the us dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima killing over 100,000 people instantly

Question 11

nagasaki attack

Answer 11

after the hiroshima attack the us dropped a second atomic bomb on nagasaki killing around 50,000 people.

Question 12

impact of the bomb

Answer 12

the bomb caused a mysterious untreatable illness which was noticed 4 days after the attack. it was later found that this was necrosis and meant bodies had no white blood cells to fight infection causing bodies to rot.

Question 13

the arms race

Answer 13

both sides were racing to create the best weapons.

Question 14

disagreements over germany

Answer 14

the allies
the ussr
trizonia 
berlin blockade
the berlin airlift
east vs west

Question 15

the allies

Answer 15

did not want to punish germany , split the country into 4 parts between themselves and russia
wanted to rebuild germany post war.

Question 16

the ussr

Answer 16

wanted to punish germany not rebuild it.

stalin felt betrayed by germany and only wanted revenge.

Question 17

trizonia

Answer 17

the uk, us and france joined all their zones to create trizonia. they wanted a capitalist economy and introduced the deutshemark to help grow this.
stalin felt they were using their zones to gang up on him.

Question 18

berlin blockade

Answer 18

stalin tried to shut of the west of berlin (the allies part) and stop any cargo going in.
the blockade lasted for 318 days.

Question 19

the berlin airlift

Answer 19

the allies had planes fly in supplies to west germany during the blockade showing the power of capitalism.
there was 275,000 planes transporting 1.5 million goods which averaged as a plane every 3 minutes

Question 20

east vs west.

Answer 20

trizonia officially become the federal republic of germany (west germany) and the soviet part became the german democratic republic (east germany) both sides constantly trying to prove they were best.
the german democratic republic was not democratic at all in fact it was a communist dictatorship.

Question 21

the korean war (1950-1953)

Answer 21

north and south
1950 invasion
UN support 
pyongyang
negotiation

Question 22

north and south

Answer 22

after the war the communist north was controlled by soviet troops and the capitalist south by american troops

both lots of troops withdrew in 1948 but korea kept a permanent border

Question 23

1950 invasion

Answer 23

in 1950 north korea invaded south korea killing 75000 men and successfully taking over seoul.
they then went on to capture everywhere except pusan

Question 24

UN support

Answer 24

truman wanted to help south korea to prevent the spread of communism, they appealed at the UN, russia didn’t use their veto because they were boycotting UN meetings at the time.
North Korea refused to withdraw their troops so UN soldiers went in as support.

Question 25

Pyongyang

Answer 25

on october 7th 1950 united nations troops moved in to attack north korea and by october 12th they captured pyongyang and the yalu river which bordered china.
china retaliated helping north korea sending 250,000 pushing the UN troops out.

Question 26

negotiation

Answer 26

in june 1951 more UN troops were sent in pushing the north koreans out. there was now a stalemate.
after 2 years of negotiation Dwight D Eisenhower stepped in as president and ended the war. A demilitarised zone was set up on the korean border