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What is an Arms race? |
A competition between rival countries to have the greatest military power |
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What is an atomic bomb? |
A bomb that causes a nuclear explosion |
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What does ICBM stand for? |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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What is a Hydrogen bomb? |
A more powerful type of Nuclear Weapon using hydrogen for power |
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What was the Missile Gap? |
The difference between what weapons the USA thought the USSR had and what they actually had |
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When and where were the first atomic bombs dropped? |
August 6th and 9th 1945 in cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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When did the USSR first successfully test an atomic bomb? |
1949 |
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When did the USA predict that the USSR would be able to create an atomic bomb? |
1953 |
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How many times more powerful is a hydrogen bomb than an atomic bomb? |
1000 |
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When did the USA detonate the world’s first hydrogen bomb? |
1952 |
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When did the USSR detonate a hydrogen bomb? |
1953 |
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When did the USA develop a U2 spy plane? |
1956 |
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Why did the USA develop a U2 spy plane? |
To spy on Soviet weapon development |
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When did the USSR develop the world’s first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) |
1957 |
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When did the USA develop Polaris Missiles which can be fired from submarines? |
1959 |
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What was Sputnik? |
The world’s first artificial satellite |
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Who launched Sputnik? |
The USSR |
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When was Sputnik launched? |
October 1957 |
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When was Laika the dog sent into space? |
November 1957 |
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What happened to the USA’s satellite Vanguard TV3? |
It rose 4 feet above the Earth and then crashed back down |
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When did the USA fail to launch the satellite Vanguard TV3 into orbit? |
December 6th 1957 |
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Who was the first human to orbit the Earth? |
Yuri Gagarin (from the USSR) |
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When did Yuri Gagarin orbit the Earth? |
April 1961 |
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Who was the first man to walk on the Moon? |
Neil Armstrong (USA) |
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When did man first walk on the Moon? |
1969 |
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What year was the Chinese revolution? |
1949 |
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Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist party? |
Mao Zedong |
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What was the treaty that Mao signed with the USSR? |
The Treaty of Friendship |
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When was the Treaty of Friendship signed? |
February 1950 |
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When did Mao declare the People’s Republic of China? |
1st October 1949 |
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What did the Treaty of Friendship include? |
•The USSR gave China 300 million dollars of aid •8,000 Chinese students were accepted to study technology and space in the USSR •20,000 Soviet experts were sent to help China’s development •China gave the USSR two of its major ports and the right to mine in its Xinjiang territory |
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How did the Chinese Revolution Impact the USA? |
They rethought there Containment policy and came up with the Domino theory They began providing millions of dollars of aid to Asian countries such as Taiwan and Japan |
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Who had ruled Vietnam for 100 years until 1945? |
France |
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Who took power over Vietnam in 1945? |
Ho Chi Minh (Communist leader of the Viet Minh anti-french group) |
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How did the US react to the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1945? |
They took action to block communism by giving military and money to France |
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What did the President Eisenhower come up with? |
The Domino Theory |
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Why was 1954 a turning point in the Vietnam War? |
France lost the final battle and soon withdrew from Vietnam A boundary was set up between North and South Vietnam |
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Why was 1954 a turning point in the Vietnam War? |
France lost the final battle and soon withdrew from Vietnam A boundary was set up between North and South Vietnam |
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After the division of Vietnam, elections were due to take place to unite Vietnam. Who was due to win and how did this impact the USA? |
Ho Chi Minh was due to win. The US wanted to stop Vietnam turning Communist so sent economic and military aid to the south. |
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Who did the USA support after Vietnam was divided? |
Ngo Dinh Diem (the unpopular and corrupt but anti-Communist leader of South Vietnam) |
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What was the Vietcong? |
A communist alliance of smaller groups from the south aiming to overthrow Diems government Also called the National Liberation Front |
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What did John F. Kennedy send to South Vietnam to help them fend off the threat of communism? |
400 military advisers |
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Why did war break out between North and South Vietnam? |
The USA got involved to: Contain communism The Domino Theory South Vietnamese weakness Attacks against the USA |
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How did the Vietnam War impact the USSR? |
Relations between the USSR and the USA were gradually improving |
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What were the political reasons for the Hungarian Uprising? |
Khrushchev’s secret speech and programme of De-stalinisation seemed like a golden opportunity Rakosi was a hard line communist keen to uphold unpopular policies of the Soviet Union e.g lack of free speech; secret police and presence of Soviet Troops |
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What were the economic reasons for the Hungarian Uprising? |
They were forced to pay for the presence of Soviet Troops in Hungary |
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What were the social reasons for the Hungarian Uprising? |
There history was being ignored and their traditions were banned |
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When and where was the Hungarian Uprising? |
October 23rd 1956, Budapest |
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Who was appointed as prime minister after the Hungarian Uprising and what reforms did he make? |
Imre Nagy who introduced- Democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, announced that Hungary was an independent and neutral country and that they would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact |
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How did the USSR react to Hungary announcing it would leave the Warsaw Pact? |
Soviet tanks went into Budapest to restore order and acted with immense brutality |
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How did the Hungarian Uprising influence international relations? |
There was a Thaw in the Cold War as it proved that the USSR could do anything they wanted behind the Iron Curtain without American interference The UN voted to condemn the Soviet response but had no power to intervene |
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How did the US President Eisenhower respond to the U2 crisis? |
He claimed it was a weather plane He refused to apologise He refused to promise that no more flights would be over Soviet air space |
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When was the U2 crisis? |
May 1st 1960 |
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What were the consequences of the U2 crisis? |
Propaganda triumph for USSR America faces worldwide criticism Khrushchev refuses to attend the Peace Summit Highlights real aspects of the Cold War |
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How does the USSR get involved in Korea? |
Stalin agrees to provide North Korea with military equipment |
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When did North Korea invade the South? |
June 1950 |
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When do peace negotiations begin between North and South Korea? |
June 1951 |
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When was the final ceasefire agreed between North and South Korea? |
July 1953 |
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What were the consequences of the Korean War? |
Shows US commitment to containing communism and their power within the UN Showed neither the US or the USSR wanted to risk full military engagement or direct conflict |
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What caused to Korean War? |
Both leaders of North and South Korea (Kim and Rhee) wanted to unite Korea under their leadership |
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