cold war quiz 1950- 1962… 1. korea – during (and since) the korean war which part, north or...
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COLD WAR QUIZ 1950-1962…
1. Korea – during (and since) the
Korean War which part, North or
South, was Communist?
2. Korea – name the “parallel” on which the country was divided at the end of the Korean
War.
3. Name the leaders of North and South Korea during the Korean war.
(2)
4. What does “NATO” stand for? BONUS: in what year was it set up?
5. Name the organisation of
Communist countries set up by the USSR in
response to NATO.BONUS: what year
was it set up?
6. Name the leader of the
USSR after Stalin (surname only… BONUS point if
you spell it right!)
7. In what year did the USSR
develop its own atomic bomb?
BONUS: in what year did it
develop its own H-bomb?
8. Who developed ICBMs
(Inter-Continental
Ballistic Missiles) first: the USA or
the USSR?
9. Name of the US pilot shot down over Russia in the U2 crisis of 1960?
10. Name of the pro-
Communist Cuban
leader who took power
there in 1959?
11. How did the CIA (US spy agency) allegedly try to assassinate him in the
mid 1960s?
12. Name of the place where a
US-backed group of Cuban anti-Communists
landed in April 1961 in an attempt to
overthrow the Cuban
government.
13. How far is it from the north of
Cuba to the south of Florida
in the US?
(Give answer to the nearest 10
miles)
14. Cuba: Kennedy’s advisors who proposed finding a peaceful solution with Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis were nicknamed the “doves”.
What nickname was given to those proposing a get tough approach?
15. Who is this?
(think about who he looks like…)
16. Where did Kennedy secretly agree to remove
missiles from as part of the deal that ended the Cuban
Missile Crisis?
17. During the USA-USSR arms race, the theory that both sides
having more nukes would prevent war, because going to war would mean the end of the world was know as “MAD”. What did this
stand for?
18. What French word, starting with “D” describes the
lessening of tension between the USA & USSR in the years
after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
19. What does “SALT” stand
for in the context of USA-USSR talks on
reducing nuclear
weapons?
20. Name of the first
Russian dog in space?
21. Name of the first Russian
satellite in space?
BONUS: what does this word mean in
English?
22. Name of the first Russian
cosmonaut in space?
23 and 24. Names of the 2 US astronauts who were the first
men to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11
landing.
25. Name of the province in Ukraine
which Vladimir Putin has just annexed in an
attempt to get the Cold War going
again…
1. North 2. 38th Parallel
3. Kim Il Sung (N); Syngman Rhee
(S).
4. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation;
Bonus: 1949
5. Warsaw Pact; Bonus: 1955
6. Khrushchev (2)
7. 1949BONUS: 1953
8. USSR
9. Gary Powers
10. Fidel Castro
11. … with an exploding cigar12. Bay of Pigs13. 90 miles
14. “Hawks”
15. Robert Kennedy (JFK’s brother)
16. Turkey
17. Mutually Assured
Destruction
18. Détente
19. Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
20. Laika 21. SputnikBONUS: traveller
22. Yuri Gagarin
23. Neil Armstrong
24. “Buzz” Aldrin
25. Crimea
Korean War
1950s arms race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Space Race
BACK TO BERLIN…One minute…. discuss everything that you can
remember about the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 (Where? Why did it happen? How did the West
respond? How did it end? Who won?
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What do you
know about the
Berlin Wall?
The Berlin Wall 1961The USA invested very heavily in West Berlin to show East Germans
the benefits of capitalist West Germany…
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Defectors to West Berlin from East Germany
Defectors (thousands)
• The people who left East Germany were often highly-skilled workers.
• Khrushchev felt he could not let this continue…
• ... on 13 Aug 1961, Soviet forces built a barbed wire fence around West Berlin…
• … this soon became a wall, which stood until 1989.
• Over 27 years hundreds were killed trying to cross the “wall”
Berlin Wall video
Why does the Berlin Wall matter?It was the first “testing” of the new, young, US President,
Kennedy, by Nikita Khrushchev…
It’s not a very nice
solution, but a wall is a
hell of a lot better than a
war.
Berlin Wall 1961
The end of the Wall
Hasslehoff...