Cold War Dates

Question 1

When was WW2

Answer 1

1939-1945

Question 2

When were the 3 conferences

Answer 2

Tehran 1943

Yalta Feb. 1945

Potsdam July 1945

Question 3

When and why did the Cold War start

Answer 3

1946

Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech in USA

Long+Novikov telegrams

Question 4

When was the USSR invaded

Answer 4

1914

1941

Question 5

Who was Hungary’s leader

Answer 5

Rakosi (bald butcher, bad guy)

Question 6

When were cominform and comecon formed

Answer 6

1947

1949

Question 7

When and what were Truman Doctrine + Marshall Aid

Answer 7

1947

Military and economic containment of communism

16C.17B

Question 8

When was the Berlin Crisis and Trizonia

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

Berlin Crisis Causes

Answer 9

New German gov

Deutschmark currency

Question 10

When was the Berlin Blockade

Answer 10

1948

Question 11

How did USA respond to Berlin blockade

Answer 11

Berlin Airlift

1,000 tonnes per day for 10 months

Question 12

When was NATO created

Answer 12

1949

Question 13

When were East+West Germany created

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

Why did relations get worse 1947-1949

Answer 14

Truman doctrine + Marshall aid

USSR’s satellite states

Berlin Crisis

Question 15

When did west Germany join NATO

Answer 15

1955

Question 16

When was the Warsaw Pact created

Answer 16

1955 by Khrushchev

Question 17

When were Hydrogen bombs developed

Answer 17

Held by both countries 1953

Question 18

Name of USA bomber

Answer 18

B52 Stratofortress

Question 19

Name of USSR bomber

Answer 19

TU20BEAR

Question 20

Why did relations get worse 1949-1955

Answer 20

NATO and Warsaw Pact

Korean War 1950-1955

Question 21

When did Stalin die

Answer 21

1953

Question 22

When and what caused the Hungarian uprising

Answer 22

1956 Secret Speech by Khrushchev promised to end oppressive rule of USSR on satellite states which gave people hope

Nagy took power then was killed

Khrushchev sent 200,000 soldiers 6,000 tanks

Question 23

When was the Berlin Crisis

Answer 23

1958-1961

Khrushchev built wall to stop brain drain (2,000 refugees leaving east Berlin per day)

Question 24

When was the Cuban missile crisis

Answer 24

1960-1962

Question 25

Cuban missile crisis causes

Answer 25

1. USA had nuclear weapons in turkey 2. Cuban revolution 3. Bay of pigs

Question 26

Why did bay of pigs fail + impact

Answer 26

Cubans did not join 1,400 exiles 20,000 men in Cuban army

Question 27

What happened after Cuban missile crisis

Answer 27

Detente + hotline 1963

Question 28

When was the Czechoslovakian crisis

Answer 28

1968

Question 29

Czechoslovakian Crisis

Answer 29

Dubcek reforms - Prague spring “socialism with a human face” Brezhnev invaded with 500,000 soldiers, 2,000 tanks

Question 30

What was the Brezhnev doctrine

Answer 30

USSR could invade Eastern European countries (Czechoslovakia)

Question 31

Reagan

Answer 31

Detente ended | “Evil empire”

Question 32

USSR collapse + unity of Germany

Answer 32

1991, Germany joins NATO

Question 33

Perestroika - Gorbachev

Answer 33

Restructuring

Question 34

Glasnost - Gorbachev

Answer 34

Openness