Tool of Cold War

Question 1

Who did remember turn for assistance?

Answer 1

The soviet union

Question 2

What did the Soviet union provide Convo?

Answer 2

Food military equipment and military advisers

Question 3

What was Lumumba’s main aim?

Answer 3

Defeating his rivals - Tshombe, Kasavubu

Question 4

What resulted in the Congo crisis becoming an extension of the Cold War conflict?

Answer 4

Acceptance of serviette assistance

Question 5

What did the US find Lumumba?

Answer 5

Threatening and they wanted a leader who are not challenge their interests in the Congo

Question 6

Who interested the US?

Answer 6

Joseph Mobutu

Question 7

When was Mobutu the temporary head of state?

Answer 7

1960

Question 8

Which president was angered by Lumumba?

Answer 8

President Dwight Eisenhower

Question 9

What did Eisenhower approve of the central intelligence agency?

Answer 9

Assassinate him using poison place in his food or toothpaste

Question 10

Why was the assassination plan important?

Answer 10

CIA’s inability to get close enough to the member

Question 11

Why did the Belgian army continue their presents when the Europeans flared?

Answer 11

To watch over their evacuation

Question 12

What happened to Katanga during this time?

Answer 12

Declared its independence

Question 13

What state was declared an autonomous state?

Answer 13

Kasai within the Republic of Congo

Question 14

Who was the leader of Kasai?

Answer 14

Albert Kalonji

Question 15

Who did kasai receive support from?

Answer 15

Belgian mining company who wanted to operate in the area

Question 16

Why did send Lumumba Congolese army to Katanga and south kasai?

Answer 16

To prevent their secession

Question 17

What is the Congolese forces that intervened do you?

Answer 17

Massacred civilians

Question 18

What did Lumumba also ask the UN to do?

Answer 18

Keep the Congo as a single unified country

Question 19

What was the United Nations under the leadership of?

Answer 19

Secretary general Da Hammarskjöld

Question 20

What was the united nations not prepared to do you?

Answer 20

To use force to keep the Congo unified

Question 21

Lumumba wanted a path of “positive neutralism”. What does this mean?

Answer 21

No ideology important from the waist in blOC or the eastern bloc

Question 22

What with the UN not supply?

Answer 22

Military support

Question 23

Then who did Lumumba ask for help?

Answer 23

The USSR

Question 24

What did the Soviet send?

Answer 24

Trucks, planes and military advises

Question 25

What did the Soviet help the Congolese government do you?

Answer 25

In its efforts to bring south kasai back into its control

Question 26

Why was the member Dennis missed as a prime minister?

Answer 26

Kasavubu was angry that you asked for Soviet intervention

Question 27

Why was the USA and Belgium upset at the Soviet intervention?

Answer 27

Did not one Congo part of Soviet sphere of influence

Question 28

Why did the USA in thousand give the Congo money?

Answer 28

Allowed my Bluetooth to pay his soldiers privately and give him a lot of power

Question 29

Who was Mobutu?

Answer 29

Anti-Communist chief of staff of the Congolese army

Question 30

What did Mobutu do in arrest?

Answer 30

Arrested Lumumba and told Soviets to leave Congo

Question 31

Where did Lumumba flee to?

Answer 31

Stanleyville

Question 32

Who tried to establish a separate government with Soviet support?

Answer 32

Antoine Gizenga

Question 33

When was Lumumba captured?

Answer 33

December 1960b

Question 34

Who was Lumumba captured by?

Answer 34

Mobutu's forces

Question 35

How did the Soviet union try to help the member?

Answer 35

Called for you in intervention – UN refused

Question 36

Where was Lumumba sent?

Answer 36

Katanga

Question 37

When was Lumumba assassinated?

Answer 37

17 January 1961

Question 38

How many people supported Gizenga?

Answer 38

21 countries

Question 39

Who replaced Dag HammarSkjold?

Answer 39

U Thant

Question 40

What did the UN become more actively involved in?

Answer 40

Stopping secessionist attacks on UN peacekeepers

Question 41

How did this involvement help Congo?

Answer 41

Mobutu to unify Congo

Question 42

When did the Simba Rebellion break out?

Answer 42

1964

Question 43

What did the Simba Rebellion suppress?

Answer 43

Using Western aid and hired mercenaries

Question 44

Who overthrew who in 1965?

Answer 44

Mobutu overthrew Kasavubu

Question 45

How did Mobutu overthrow?

Answer 45

Bloodless coup

Question 46

How did Mobutu control Congo?

Answer 46

Aid of Western powers

Question 47

What did Mobutu rename Congo?

Answer 47

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Question 48

What party was only allowed during the DRC?

Answer 48

Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution (MPR)

Question 49

How long did Mobutu rule for?

Answer 49

32 years

Question 50

How did the government try encourage industry?

Answer 50

Import duties on factory equipment low

Question 51

Why did the USA continue to support Mobutu?

Answer 51

He was anti-Communist

Question 52

How much financial aid did Mobutu receive?

Answer 52

Half of all the Eden Centre Africa

Question 53

What how to Congo is finances?

Answer 53

In 1966 Congo nationalise the huge Belgian mining company

Question 54

What was the Belgian mining company called?

Answer 54

Union Mindere du Haut Katanga (UMHK)

Question 55

What was the Belgian mining companies new name?

Answer 55

La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (GECAMINES)

Question 56

What did the government do in terms of finance in 1967?

Answer 56

Implement new currency - zaire

Question 57

What did zaire replace?

Answer 57

Congolese franc

Question 58

What was Zaire based on?

Answer 58

Congo river

Question 59

How many US dollars was received in 1967?

Answer 59

27 million - loan from IMD