1950's : Development of cold war

Question 1

what did NATO stand for

Answer 1

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Question 2

How many original members did NATO have

Answer 2

12 (e.g. USA, Canada, UK, France, Denmark, Italy, West Germany, etc.)

Question 3

When did NATO form

Answer 3

1949

Question 4

What was the Warsaw Pact

Answer 4

Stalin’s version of NATO, a military alliance

Question 5

How many original members did the Warsaw pact have

Answer 5

8 (e.g. USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, East Germany, Hungary)

Question 6

How many Soldiers, Tanks and Aircraft did the Warsaw Pact

Answer 6

Soldiers = 5.5 million
Tanks = 35,000
Aircraft = 10,000

Question 7

How did the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact worsen tensions between the USA and USSR

Answer 7

Any conflict between any two countries from either military alliance would’ve lead to all of the countries getting involved and ultimately leading to WW3

Question 8

When did the USSR successfully test their atomic bomb

Answer 8

August 1949

Question 9

When did the USA successfully test the first hydrogen bomb - which were up to 1000 times more powerful that the atomic bombs the USA dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 9

November 1952

Question 10

When did the USSR successfully test their hydrogen bomb

Answer 10

August 1953

Question 11

When did the USSR successfully test the first ICBM (inter-continental ballistic missile) - long range missiles (3000 miles) which did not require a pilot.

Answer 11

August 1957 (after USA failed their’s in June)

Question 12

When did USA test their ICBM

Answer 12

1958

Question 13

When did USA develop technology that allow them to launch missiles from land, air and sea (submarines)

Answer 13

1960

Question 14

When did the USSR detonate the Tsar Bomba - the largest bomb that the world has ever seen (100 times larger that. hydrogen bomb and bigger than all of the bombs used in WW2 combined)

Answer 14

October 1961

Question 15

What was MAD and how did it potentially make the cold war safer

Answer 15

Mutually Assured Destruction - it was the idea that both sides that they couldn’t launch their nuclear weapons because their knew that they both had enough power to destroy each other 100’s of times over

Question 16

What were the long-term consequences of the Arms Race

Answer 16

-The cold war never lead to direct fighting between the USA and USSR possibly due to the idea of MAD
-Both sides spent billions of dollars trying to keep with each other, that by the 1980’s the USSR could no longer afford this military spending and was bankrupt

Question 17

Who died in 1953

Answer 17

Stalin

Question 18

Who was appointed after Stalin

Answer 18

Krushchev

Question 19

What was destalinisation

Answer 19

The idea that Krushchev was going to remove lots of damaging institutions to the soviet union - he said “capitalism and communism can co-exist”

Question 20

Which country protested for greater political and religious freedoms in 1956

Answer 20

Hungary

Question 21

On what day did Hungarian protestors demand that USSR’s troops leave and even tore down a statue of Stalin

Answer 21

23rd October 1956

Question 22

On what day did Krushchev take his soldiers out of Hungary

Answer 22

29th October 1956

Question 23

On what day did Nagy (Hungary’s leader) say that they were going to leave the Warsaw pact

Answer 23

1st November 1956

Question 24

On what day did Krushchev send back his troops, including 1000 tanks, to attack the protestors.

Answer 24

4th November

Question 25

How many people were killed in the Hungarian revolution

Answer 25

4000

Question 26

How many people became refugees in the Hungarian revolution

Answer 26

200,000

Question 27

Who replaced Nagy after he was arrested after the Hungarian revolution

Answer 27

Kadar

Question 28

What was the importance of the Hungarian revolution

Answer 28

-The event sent a clear message to other Eastern European countries that the USSR would not let them break free from communist control