The Crises Of The Cold War

Question 1

When was the space race?

Answer 1

1960-1980

Question 2

What was signed after the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 2

A ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere

Question 3

What were both sides meant to do during Détente?

Answer 3

Limit their development of further nuclear arms

Question 4

What did the space race prove?

Answer 4

Which country was the most advanced

Question 5

Who had the lead in the space race at first?

Answer 5

The USSR

Question 6

What did the USSR do in 1961?

Answer 6

Sent the first man into space

Question 7

Who was the first man in space?

Answer 7

Yuri Gagarin

Question 8

When was the first man sent into space?

Answer 8

1961

Question 9

How did the USA win the space race?

Answer 9

Sent people to the moon

Question 10

When were people first sent to the moon?

Answer 10

1969

Question 11

When was the U2 Crisis?

Answer 11

1960

Question 12

What was a U2?

Answer 12

Spy plane

Question 13

What did Eisenhower order the U2 pilots to do?

Answer 13

Spy on the USSR

Question 14

When did Eisenhower order the U2 spies to spy on the USSR?

Answer 14

1956

Question 15

What did the USSR do in 1960?

Answer 15

Shot down a U2 plane which was flying above the USSR

Question 16

What happened to the pilot of the captured U2 plane?

Answer 16

He was captured

Question 17

When was the US pilot shot down during the U2 Crisis?

Answer 17

May 1960

Question 18

What did the U2 Crisis mean for the USA?

Answer 18

It embarrassed them

Question 19

What did the U2 Crisis ruin?

Answer 19

Paris Summit Conference

Question 20

What was due to happen at the Paris Summit Conference?

Answer 20

The USA and the USSR were going to try to ease tensions

Question 21

When was the Berlin Wall built?

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

Answer 22

Many were using Berlin as a way to escape the harsh conditions in East Germany

Question 23

Who decided to build the wall?

Answer 23

Khrushchev

Question 24

Where was the Wall?

Answer 24

Around West Berlin

Question 25

What did the wall do?

Answer 25

It stopped people from east Germany and East Berlin escaping through West Berlin

Question 26

How many people died within the first year of the wall being built while trying to escape?

Answer 26

More than 40

Question 27

How was the wall for the communists?

Answer 27

It was embarrassing

Question 28

When was the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 28

1962

Question 29

How far is the island of Cuba from the USA?

Answer 29

90 miles

Question 30

Who took over control in Cuba which made the USA unhappy?

Answer 30

Fidel Castro

Question 31

What was Castro?

Answer 31

A rebel

Question 32

When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba?

Answer 32

1959

Question 33

Who did Kennedy allow to try and get rid of Castro?

Answer 33

CIA

Question 34

When did Kennedy allow the CIA to get rid of Castro?

Answer 34

1962

Question 35

What did the CIA do?

Answer 35

Trained and armed 1300 Cuban exiles and sent them to Cuba

Question 36

Where in Cuba did the CIA send the trained exiles to?

Answer 36

The Bay of Pigs

Question 37

What did the exiles do at the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 37

Failed badly

Question 38

What did Castro do to protect Cuba?

Answer 38

Became friends with the USSR

Question 39

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 39

1962

Question 40

What did an American U2 plane discover?

Answer 40

The USSR was putting nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Question 41

What did the USA do to Cuba to prevent more weapons arriving?

Answer 41

Blockaded it

Question 42

What did the deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev mean?

Answer 42

Khrushchev removed the missiles

Question 43

What did the USA secretly agree to do?

Answer 43

Remove missiles from turkey

Question 44

When was the Prague Spring?

Answer 44

1968

Question 45

Where was Dubcek leader of?

Answer 45

Czechoslovakia

Question 46

What did Dubcek want?

Answer 46

Communism with a human face