Flashcards: History cold war. Practice questions.

T/F: the tehran conference was in 1941

t/f: britain and the usa agreed to invade france

t/f: the yalta conference began in 1945

t/f: in the yalta confernce it was agreed to divide germany into 4 zones

t/f: poland was a source of disagreement between the allies during the yalta conference, 1945

t/f: stalin was keen to allow free elections in eastern europe

t/f: roosevelt attented the potsdam conference

t/f: stalin set up a communist government in poland

t/f: the soviet union had atmoic weapons by the time of potsdam conference

t/f: truman made the decision to blockade Berlin

t/f: stalin was angered by the reconstruction of germany

t/f: the soviets cut of all land lines to Berlin

t/f: the usa airlifted supplies into berlin

t/f: the blockade crisis lasted from 1948 to 1950

t/f: berlin was supplied with coal,oil, food and medicine

t/f: American b-29 bombers were moved to Britain during the crisis

t/f: The soviets responded to the airlift by shooting down all aircraft

t/f: stalin eventually backed down and lifted the blockade

t/f: berlin remained a source of tension in the cold war

usa/ussr: set up government in poland

usa/ussr: set up cominform

usa/ussr: blockade berlin

usa/ussr:  set up warsaw pact

usa/ussr: occupied eastern europe

usa/ussr: airlifted supplies into west berlin

usa/ussr: set up nato

t/f: poland was a member of nato

t/f: stalin saw nato as an agressive aliiance aimed at the soviet union

t/f: the usa launched a satellite called sputnik

t/f: the soviet equivalent to nato is warsaw

t/f:  american b-29 bomers based in europe could destroy moscow

t/f: nasa stands for national aeroautical soviet adminsitration

t/f: a hydrogen bomb could easily destroy a city

t/f: albania and hungry were members of the warsaw pact

t/f: nato stands for north atlantic treaty organisation

t/f: the cold war become alot more friendly by 1958

berlin had originally been divided at which conference?

berlin was situated inside which zone of occuptaion?

between 1949 and 1961, how many berliners flet to the west

the soviet were worried about western espionage in berlin.what is esponiage?

what shot down over the soviet union?

when did khrushchev close the border between east and west berlin?

where was the east west stand-off in octber 1961? 

which us president visted berlin in 1963?

how many people turned out to hear the us president speak in 1963?

the berlin wall was built to?

the east germans wanted to leave berline because?

the berlin wall...

the berlin wall fell because..

what economies like in west germany and east?

what effect would the loss of young people have on a country

the secret union place missiles in cuba in order to..

the us called the blockade a quarentine because

the cuban missile crisis is when the us reached what defcon level

which government indiviuals negotiated the end of cuban missile crisis on october 27

during the cmc the us agreed to: 

the bay of pigs was organised by?

the aim of the bay of pigs invasion was?

kenned was asked to buy back prisioners during the cmc area with?

the bay of pigs took place in?

la brigada consisted of?

la brigada were met by?

what was the period reform in czechoslovakia in 1968 called?

t/f: when noventy asked for help at the start of the prague spring, russia did not give him any

who was the leader of russia in 1968?

t/f: alexander dubcek reblacked novantny as czech leader in january 1968

what was the brezhnec doctrine announced on 3rd august 1968?

when did the warsaw pact invade czechoslovakia?

how many soldiers invaded czechoslovakia?

how did jan palach protest the invasion of czechoslovakia?

t/f: detente is the name given to improved cold war relations?

t/f: americans sent troops to korea in 1965

t/f: president nixon visited moscow in 1970

t/f: USA and soviet astronaughts met in space in 1975

t/f: all nuclear weapons were banned under the salt treaty

t/f: us president carter critised the soviet over their humans rights record

t/f: the us senate refused to ratify salt II in 1974

t/f:  gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika

t/f: reagans anti-nuclear missile system was known as star track

t/f:  gorbachev wanted to modernise communism in order to save the soviet union

the attempts at detente in 1970...

the soviet invasion of afganhistan in 1979 was the last straw for the usa and president carter views soviet actions as a serious threat to..

the usa saw a soviet occupied afghanistan as a threat to india and pakistan as well as a possible stepping stone to soviet controlof the...

during the 5 years following the invasion, raltions between the superpowers..

the newly elected us president reagan was keen to challenge the soviet union and re-establishing the usa as the..

reagan bacame determined to confront the soviet union whenever possible and this led to what some described as the..

president reagan greatly increased us spending on defence to..

president who visted moscow in 1974

us president who met gorbachev in 1985

soviet leader who resigned in 1991

year the berlin wall came down

date of the soviet invasion of afghanistan

event boycotted by usa in 1980

define salt

define containment

define icbm

define comecon

define marshall plan

define MAD

what is the UN

define bizonia

define perestorika