COLD WAR RIVALRIES 1955-63 Flashcards
(19 cards)
- WHEN DID JOHN F KENNEDY BECOME PRESIDENT?
-JANUARY 1961
- WHAT WAS THE ARMS RACE AND WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
- THE ARMS RACE WAS COMPETITION BETWEEN THE IUS AND USSR TO SEE WHO GAIN SUPERIORITY THROUGH WEAPONS
- STARTED AFTER THE USSR SUCCEEDED IN TESTING NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN 1949
WHEN DID THE USSR TEST ITS FIRST ICBM?
-1957
-WHAT WAS THE GAITHER REPORT AND WHEN WAS IT MADE?
-COMMISSIONED BY EISENHOWER IN 1958
-A REPORT ON USSR MILITARY STRENGTH COMPARED TO THE US
- HE FOCUSED ON NUCLEAR WEAPONRY AND THE MISSILE GAP
- THE REPORT CONCLUDED THAT THE USSR HAD SUPERIOR WEAPONRY BUT THIS WAS UNLIKELY AFTER THEB U-2 SPY PLANE REPORT
-WHEN AND WHAT WAS THE BERMUDA CONFERENCE AND NATO AGREEMENT?
- 1957
- AT THE BERMUDA CONFERENCE IT WAS AGREED THAT BRITAIN WOULD HOUSE US WEAPONS
- NATO ALLIES HOUSED ICBM IN THE CASE OF USSR ATTACK
- THE USSR FELT THAT THEY WERE BEING SURROUNDED AND WOULD BE VULBERABLE IN THE CASE OF WAR
- WHAT WAS THE SPACE RACE?
- BOTH THE US AND USSR HAD WEAPONS THAT COULD BE LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
- ON OCTOBER 1957 THE USSR TOOK THE LEAD IN THE SPACE RACE WHEN SPUTNICK - WAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
- EISENHOWER WAS HEAVILY CRITICISED FOR ALLOWING THE SOVIETS TO SURPASS THEM
WHAT WAS THE US RESPONSE TO THE SPACE RACE?
- EISENHOWER GAVE 1 BILLION TO THE SPACE PROGRAMME AND IN 1958 CREATED NASA
- DESPITE THIS THE USSR EDGED FURTHER AHEAD
WHAT WAS THE SPACE RACE LIKE UNDER KENNEDY?
IN 1961 W2HEN KENNEDY BECAME PRESIDENT HE INCREASED FUNDING TOWARDS NASA
- IN 1969, THE AMERICANS SUCCESSFULLY LANDED A MAN ON THE MOON
WHEN AND WHAT WAS THE BERLIN CRISIS AND WHY WAS IT CONCERNING?
-1958
- SINCE 1955 PEOPLE WERE LEAVING THE EAST TO THE WEST AS IT HAD BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS
- THE BRAIN DRAIN- MANY OF THE SMART AND INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE WERE FLEEING EAT BERLIN TO THE WEST WHICH WAS AFFECTING THE ECONOMY AS THEY WERE LOSING WORKERS
-WHAT WERE KRUSHCHEV’S CONCERNS AT THE TIME OF THE 1958 BERLIN CRISIS
- WEST GERMANY HAD JOINED NATO IN 1955 AND KRUSHCHEV WORRIES THAT THE US WOULD PLANT MILITARY WEAPONS THERE
- WORRIED THAT THE USSR’S STATUS AS A WORLD LEADER WAS BEING THREATENED BY CHINA
- CONCERNED THAT THE USSR DID NOT HAVE A STRONG HOLD OIN SATELLITE STATS DUE TO HUNGARY AND POLAND
- WHAT WAS THE HALLSTEIN DOCTRINE?
-1955
- STATED THAT THE WEST GERMANY WOULD NOT HAVE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ANY COUNTRY (BESIDES THE USSR)THAT RECOGNISED EAST GERMANY(GDR) AS A STATE
-WHEN AND WHAT WAS THE BERLIN ULTIMATUM?
- 29 NOVEMBER 1958
- KRUSHCHEV ISSUED AN ULTIMATUM THAT SAID THAT THE WEST HAD TO WTHDRAW FROM WEST BERLIN SO IT COULD BECOME A FREE CITY AND IF THEY DID NOT THE USSR WOULD HAND CONTROL TO THE GDR WHICH THE WEST DID NOIT RECOGNISE AND WOULD MAKE THE HALLSTEIN DOCTRINE IRRELEVANT
- IN DECEMBER THE US REJECTED THE ULTIMATUM BUT THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES FROM TH USSR AND THEY ACTED AS IF THEY HAD NEVER ISSUED THE ULTIMATUM
- WHAT ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO FIND A RESOLUTION OVER BERLIN AND WHY DID THEY TURN SOUR?
- GOODWILL MEETINGS E.G KRUSHCHEV VISITING AMERICA
- SET UP THE 1960 PARIS SUMMIT TO DSCUSS
- WENT SOUR AS THE U-2 SPY PLANE WAS DISCOVERED AND SHOT DOWN
- KRUSHCHEV WAS OUTRAGED BY THIS
- WALTER ULBRITCH CONVINCED KRUSHCHEV TO TAKE DIRECT ACTION
- WHEN WAS THE VIENNA SUMMIT AND HOW DID IT GO?
-JUNE 1961
- MEETING BETWEEN KRUSHCHEV AND JFK TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF BERLIN AND TENSIONS AROUND CUBA
- JFK FELT BULIED BY KRUSHCHEV SAYING THAT’ HE SAVAGED ME’
- WHEN AND WAHT WAS THE BERLIN WALL?
-AUGUST 1961
- ALL THAT SEPARATED EAST AND WEST BERLIN AND COVERED IN BARBED WIRE
- IT WAS A SYMBOL OF COLD WAR DIVISIONS AND BOTH SIDES HAD TANKS STATIONED TOWARDS EACH OTHER
-WHAT WAS THE IMPACT OF THE BERLIN WALL?
- THE EAST GERMAN ECONOMY IMPROVED AS WORKERS COULDNT leave
- AMERICA USED THE WALL AS A PROPAGANDA TOOL TO SAY THAT COMMUNISM HAD TO FORCE PEOPLE IN
