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 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 Both Yalta & Potsdam
Churchill
Stalin
Truman
Atlee
Roosevelt
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
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.
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
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%
2%
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
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