The Space Race

Question 1

What was the completion between USA and Russia

Answer 1

• was to gain status in the eyes of the world

Question 2

What happened on 1946 at Potsdam

Answer 2

the allied forces made the decisions regarding Germany

Question 3

What are those decision

Answer 3

• Germany would be divided into four zones Britain, France, the USA and Russia would each get a piece
• An Allied governing body would administrate the zones
• Germany would be demilitarised

Question 4

what is demilitarised

Answer 4

to do away with military and weapons

Question 5

Why was the elections held

Answer 5

• so that a democratic government could be elected

- Stalin did not agree with this

Question 6

what did the USA, Britain and France’s together form

Answer 6

-western germany

Question 7

What did russian territory form

Answer 7

-Eastern Germany

Question 8

What was western germany

Answer 8

• it was democratic

Question 9

What was eastern germany

Answer 9

• was a communistic one party country

- Berlin was divided in the same way

Question 10

who helped who with loans

Answer 10

-west helped the eastern

Question 11

What effect did this have

Answer 11

-on the quality of life in this part was much higher than in Eastern Germany

Question 12

what did a lot of people do

Answer 12

-professionals left Eastern Germany to move to Western Germany in search of better lives

Question 13

What did russia do

Answer 13

-built a wall around Eastern Berlin(1961) to stop people from escaping to the West

Question 14

What was a symbol of the Cold War

Answer 14

-shame wall

Question 15

who declared that the cold war was over

Answer 15

-President Gorbachev of Russia and President George Bush of the USA

Question 16

what were Gorbachev’s 2 new policies

Answer 16

-He gave the 15 repuclics under the USSR (Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics) freedom of press and speech
-He allowed people to earn their own existence

Question 17

what problems did this lead to

Answer 17

-The price of oil declined
Russia could no longer afford it’s own imports
Could not buy wheat
The country was almost bankrupt

Question 18

who became president In 1991

Answer 18

• Boris Yeltsin

- He announced the end of the soviet union

Question 19

what was Gorbachev

Answer 19

• he was not popular in his own country but he was liked in the West because he helped to end the Cold War
• He received the Nobel Peace Prize

Question 20

What was the Iron Curtain

Answer 20

• Description of the physical, ideological and military division of Europe between the Western and Southern capitalistic states and the Eastern
• Soviet dominated communistic nations during the Cold War-1945 - 1991