Cold War 1956-84 Overview cards

Question 1

What speech did the leader after Stalin give- what did it do

Answer 1

Nikita Khruschev- Secret speech against Stalin

Question 2

What process did Khrushchev start?

Answer 2

De-Stalinisation (1956)

Question 3

What revolution happened as a result of desalinisation and when?

Answer 3

Poznan uprising (June 1956)

Question 4

What did Poznan inspire?

Answer 4

Hungarian revolution

Question 5

How many people died in Poznan vs Hungarian?

Answer 5

Poznan- 74
Hungarian- Over 4000

Question 6

What was the fundamental difference between Poznan and Hungarian?

Answer 6

Poznan wanted more freedoms and liberty from USSR while Hungary wanted to leave the Warsaw pact

Question 7

What other events were happening at same time as Hungarian?

Answer 7

US election
Suez crisis

Question 8

Who was the leader that was executed after Hungary election?

Answer 8

Imre Nagy

Question 9

What had happened in East Germany 1949-53?

Answer 9

• huge collectivisation
• industrialisation

Question 10

How many ppl left East Germany to West

Answer 10

2.3 million

Question 11

When was the Berlin uprising?

Answer 11

1953

Question 12

What caused the Berlin uprising?

Answer 12

Ulbricht increasing production quotas so 400,000 people took to the streets

Question 13

When was Prague Spring

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

Difference in numbers leaving East Germany after and before wall

Answer 14

1961- 207,000 emmigrated
1962- 21,000

Question 15

When was the Berlin Wall constructed?

Answer 15

Overnight on August 13th 1961

Question 16

Causes of Prague Spring

Answer 16

Relaxation of censorship

Question 17

What change in leader resulted in relaxing of Czech censorship

Answer 17

Novotony to Dubcek in 1968

Question 18

What did Prague Spring want

Answer 18

More individual freedom from the USSR- but to remain communist and stay within the Warsaw pact

Question 19

What did Dubcek order in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion?

Answer 19

Passive resistance

Question 20

How many people died in Prague Spring?

Answer 20

70

Question 21

What were the consequences of Prague Spring?

Answer 21

Albania left the Warsaw Pact
Romania criticised the USSR
Brezhnev doctrine

Question 22

Who replaced Dubcek

Answer 22

Husak

Question 23

What did the Hungarian revolution bring an end to?

Answer 23

The Thaw

Question 24

When did Detente begin and under which president was this their foreign policy

Answer 24

1969, Richard Nixon

Question 25

What was the improving of US-China relations called

Answer 25

Panda- diplomacy

Question 26

When did Nixon visit China and agree a series of rapprochements?

Answer 26

1972

Question 27

When was the Non-prolifiterian treaty signed- what did it do

Answer 27

No transferring nuclear weapons to other countries. 1968

Question 28

When were the SALTs- what does this stand for?

Answer 28

Strategic arms limitations talks 1970-72

Question 29

What was German foreign policy with the ambition of reunification called?

Answer 29

Ostpolotik

Question 30

What did the Moscow treaty do and when

Answer 30

FRG and USSR claimed no rights to GDR 1970

Question 31

What did the Basic Treaty do and when?

Answer 31

Allow DRG Berliners to visit FRG, allowed postal relations- 1972

Question 32

When were the Helsinki Accords? What was in each basket

Answer 32

Basket 1- Peace (Henry Kissinger managed to convince USSR to possibility of eventual change in borders) Basket 2- Cooperation in science and economics Basket 3- Cooperation of humanitarian 1972

Question 33

Who was the leader of West Berlin who led Ostpolotiks?

Answer 33

Willy Brandt

Question 34

What was agreed at SALT

Answer 34

5 year freeze agreed on construction of missile launchers

Question 35

When was the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 35

October 1962

Question 36

Vietnam war

Answer 36

1955-75

Question 37

What happened to US defence spending between 1970 and 1976

Answer 37

1970- $404 billion 1976- $284 billion

Question 38

When does the USSR successfully test an A-bomb

Answer 38

August 1949

Question 39

First ICBM fired by USSR

Answer 39

August 1957

Question 40

When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

Answer 40

1978

Question 41

Who gave the USSR atomic bomb plans

Answer 41

Klaus Fuchs