Cold War Quiz by Archie Sharpe

What was the date the USA nuked Hiroshima?

August 1 1945

August 6 1945

May 21 1945

What was the date the USA nuked Nagasaki?

August 9 1945

August 6 1945

May 21 1945

Who was president of the USA at this time?

Harry Truman

Franklin Roosevelt

Richard Nixon

What's the estimated death count for Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

100,000

500,000

225,000

In the space race who was first to successfully launch a satillite?

USA

USSR

What was the Russian satellite called?

Sputnik 1

Apollo 11

What was the USA lander called?

Sputnik 1

Apollo 11

Who was the first man in space?

Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong

Yuri Gagarin

Alan Sheppard

Which of these men touched foot on the moon? (Multiple Answer)

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

Michael Collins

Yuri Gagarin

When did the USSR drop their first nuclear Bomb?

January 1950

August 1949

July 1946

What iconic USA Nuclear weapon did the USSR copy as their First Nuclear Weapon?

What was USSR's first Atomic bomb called?

Fast Lightning

Loud Thunder

First Lightning

Stalin

The Soviets were far behind with developments in nuclear advancements but in 1961 they had a huge break through beating the USA . The best the USA did up to this point was 14.8 megatons . What did the USSR have?

15 megatons

25 megatons

58 megatons

33 megatons

With developments nuclear weapons advancing rapidly both sides soon realised that any attack on one of the sides meant that both sides would be obliterated . So a policy called MAD was created in theory stopping either side from attacking one another . But what did MAD stand for ?

Mutual Assured Destruction

Massive Assisted Death

Mutually Agreed Deal

Menacing Atomic Destruction

The Yalta and Potsdam conferences were called to help the Allies decide what would happen to Europe, and in particular Germany, at the end of the Second World War. This Revision Bite will help you understand the decisions made at these two important conferences and the differences that emerged between the allied leaders.

What Conference was first Yalta or Potsdam?

Yalta

Potsdam

Who attended Yalta?

Kennedy,Attlee,Satlin

Churchill,Truman,Satlin

Churchill,Stalin,Roosevelt

Yalta

Germany to be split up into four zones. Germany will pay reparations .A government of 'national unity' to be set up in Poland, comprising both communists and non-communists.Free elections in the countries of eastern Europe. This part of the agreement was called the Declaration of Liberated Europe.Russia would help against Japan when Germany was defeated.

Arguments about the details of the boundaries between the zones.Disagreements about the amount of reparations Russia wanted to take. It was agreed that Russia could take whatever it wanted from the Soviet zone, and 10 per cent of the industrial equipment of the western zones, but Britain and the US thought this was too much.Truman was angry because Stalin had arrested the non-communist leaders of Poland.America and Britain were alarmed because communists were coming to power in the countries of Eastern Europe.Truman dropped the atomic bomb so that Japan would surrender before Russian troops could go into Japan. America had the bomb in July 1945, but Truman did not tell Stalin about it. When he saw how he had been tricked, Stalin was furious.

Potsdam

In 1947, two important events occured: firstly, President Truman warned the American Congress that it was America's job to contain Communism - this became known as the Truman Doctrine - and secondly, General George Marshall came up with a plan to help Europe recover from the war using American money - this became known as the Marshall Plan

Why did USA offer countries Marshall Aid ?

To convert them to Capitolism

Stop the spread of communism

To build alliences

Which countries were accepting Aid ( Not under Stalin's control)

Yugoslavia

Poland

Hungary

Greece

USA did this because they knew that Stalin and the USSR would keep trying to expand the communist governments and stop him controlling other countries whether that is as buffer zones or to try and conquer Europe.

Stalin however blockaded supplies from France , USA and Britain into West Berlin . Why did he do this.

The Trizonia threatened him

Potsdam

Power

He wanted the supplies

So the allies saw the blockade as Stalin's attempt to starve West Germany into surrender . So they flew supplies into Berlin.

Stalin now had an option to shoot down these planes. Why didn't he?

WW3

They would explode and crash into Berlin

Waste of Weaponry

USA had Atomic Weapons

With supplies low and Starvation kicking in Stalin offered West Berliners to move to East Berlin . How many did?

50%

10%

None

How long was the blockade up for?

318 days

1 year

121 days

It is still up but is now call the Berlin wall

Cold War Quiz by Archie Sharpe

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