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10 Cards in this Set
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When did the Cold War start and finish?
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1945-1991
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Who were the main countries that started the Cold War?
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The USA, USSR and Britain
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Why was the USSR suspicious of the USA?
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The USA didn't like communism and they didn't tell the USSR about their possession of the Nuclear Bomb
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What was NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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When was the Yalta conference?
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February 1945
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What was agreed at the Yalta conference?
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How to split Germany in the four zones and to allow free elections in Eastern European countries
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When was the Potsdam conference and what went wrong?
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July 1945. There were open disagreements as Roosevelt died and Churchill didn't win the election. Truman came away angry about the size of reparations and the fact that a communist government was being set up in Poland. Truman did not tell Stalin that he had the atomic bomb.
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When did France, Britain and the USA join together to create West Germany?
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1945
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What was the Berlin Blockade?
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In June 1948, Britain, France and America united their zones into a new country, West Germany. On 23 June 1948, they introduced a new currency, which they said would help trade.
The next day, Stalin cut off all rail and road links to west Berlin - the Berlin Blockade. The west saw this as an attempt to starve Berlin into surrender, so they decided to supply west Berlin by air. |
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How long did the Berlin Blockade last, how many planes were transported and how many tons of supplies were landed every three minutes?
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The Berlin Blockade lasted 318 days. During this time, 275,000 planes transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin's Templehof airport.
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