cold war origins

Question 1

who were the big three

Answer 1

roosevelt
stalin
churchill

Question 2

when was tehran conference

Answer 2

1943

Question 3

what happened at tehran

Answer 3

new western front
coordinated military strategy in war

Question 4

when was yalta conference

Answer 4

feb 1945

Question 5

what happened at yalta conference

Answer 5

disagreement of polands borders and german reparations

Question 6

when was potsdam conference

Answer 6

july 1945

Question 7

what happened at potsdam conference

Answer 7

germany to be divided
un to be created
ussr join usa in war against japan
concept of free elections in eastern europe varied

Question 8

what was the long telegram

Answer 8

US in USSR saying ussr wants to expand - suspicion and fear

Question 9

what was the novikov telegram

Answer 9

ussr in us saying truman wants world domination

Question 10

when was the iron curtain speech

Answer 10

1946

Question 11

what was trumans policy of containment

Answer 11

try and stop the spread of communism

Question 12

what was the truman doctrine

Answer 12

agree to support any country resisting communism

Question 13

when was the truman doctrine

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

when was the marshall plan

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

what was the marshall plan

Answer 15

give $17 billion to countries resisting communism to stop them being forced to convert out of poverty/insecurity of money

Question 16

what was stalins response to the truman doctrine

Answer 16

cominform
communist information bureau
1947
coordinate communist europe

Question 17

what was stalins response to the marshall plan

Answer 17

comecon
set up to coordinate the production and trade of the eastern European communist countries
1949
collectivisation of agriculture

Question 18

why did the berlin crisis occur

Answer 18

western powers united their sections of germany - bizonia
stalin - threatened

Question 19

what was the berlin airlift

Answer 19

june 1948
stalin blocks all rail road and naval access to west berlin
usa 270,000 flights bring supplies to west berlin
lasts 10 months

Question 20

consequences of berlin airlift

Answer 20

stalin humiliated
germany divided into west (fdr) and east (gdr)
leads to nato

Question 21

what was nato

Answer 21

a defensive alliance in western europe

Question 22

when was nato formed

Answer 22

1949

Question 23

consequences of nato

Answer 23

warsaw pact
us fully committed to western europe
germany became a a part of nato in 1955 and fully demilitarised

Question 24

what was the warsaw pact

Answer 24

similar to nato but for eastern europe
1955

Question 25

what did warsaw pact lead to

Answer 25

increased arms race

Question 26

when did russia get their atom bomb

Answer 26

1949 - after receivi8ng info about the manhattan project

Question 27

when did the usa and ussr get their hydrogen bombs

Answer 27

1956
more powerful - destroy entire cities

Question 28

what did the arms race lead to

Answer 28

increased military spending
us- from $13.5 billion to $49.6 billion
ussr - from $13.4 billion to $25.5 billion

Question 29

when did ussr launch sputnik

Answer 29

1957 - satellite that could orbit the earth

Question 30

who created nasa?

Answer 30

eisenhower

Question 31

who was the first man in space and when

Answer 31

1961 yuri gagarin

Question 32

who was the first man on the moon and when

Answer 32

1969 niel armstrong

Question 33

who was hungarys new leader

Answer 33

Nagy

Question 34

what did nagy want to do

Answer 34

leave warsaw pact

Question 35

when did russia invade hungary

Answer 35

nov 4 1956

Question 36

how many tanks and troops did khrushchev send to hungary

Answer 36

6000 tanks
200000 troops

Question 37

consequences of hungarian uprising

Answer 37

nagy hanged
7000 soviets dead
200000 hungarians fled