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...