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COLd war QUIZ 1950-1962…

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).

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COLd war QUIZ 1950-1962…

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  1. COLd war QUIZ 1950-1962…

  2. 1. Korea – during (and since) the Korean War which part, North or South, was Communist?

  3. 2. Korea – name the “parallel” on which the country was divided at the end of the Korean War.

  4. 3. Name the leaders of North and South Korea during the Korean war. (2)

  5. 4. What does “NATO” stand for? BONUS: in what year was it set up?

  6. 5. Name the organisation of Communist countries set up by the USSR in response to NATO. BONUS: what year was it set up?

  7. 6. Name the leader of the USSR after Stalin (surname only… BONUS point if you spell it right!)

  8. 7. In what year did the USSR develop its own atomic bomb? BONUS: in what year did it develop its own H-bomb?

  9. 8. Who developed ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles) first: the USA or the USSR?

  10. 9. Name of the US pilot shot down over Russia in the U2 crisis of 1960?

  11. 10. Name of the pro-Communist Cuban leader who took power there in 1959?

  12. 11. How did the CIA (US spy agency) allegedly try to assassinate him in the mid 1960s?

  13. 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.

  14. 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)

  15. 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?

  16. 15. Who is this? (think about who he looks like…)

  17. 16. Where did Kennedy secretly agree to remove missiles from as part of the deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  18. 17. During the USA-USSR arms race, the theory that both sides having more nukes would preventwar, because going to war would mean the end of the world was know as “MAD”. What did this stand for?

  19. 18. What French word, starting with “D” describes the lessening of tension between the USA & USSR in the years after the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  20. 19. What does “SALT” stand for in the context of USA-USSR talks on reducing nuclear weapons?

  21. 20. Name of the first Russian dog in space?

  22. 21. Name of the first Russian satellite in space? BONUS: what does this word mean in English?

  23. 22. Name of the first Russian cosmonaut in space?

  24. 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. 25. Name of the province in Ukraine which Vladimir Putin has just annexed in an attempt to get the Cold War going again…

  26. 1. North 2. 38th Parallel 4. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; Bonus: 1949 5. Warsaw Pact; Bonus: 1955 3. Kim Il Sung (N); Syngman Rhee (S). 22. Yuri Gagarin 20. Laika 6. Khrushchev (2) 21. Sputnik BONUS: traveller 19. Strategic Arms Limitations Talks 7. 1949 BONUS: 1953 23. Neil Armstrong 18. Détente 8. USSR 24. “Buzz” Aldrin 17. Mutually Assured Destruction 9. Gary Powers 25. Crimea 10. Fidel Castro 16. Turkey 11. … with an exploding cigar 12. Bay of Pigs 14. “Hawks” 15. Robert Kennedy (JFK’s brother) 13. 90 miles

  27. Korean War Cuban Missile Crisis 1950s arms race Space Race

  28. 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? 1:31 1:59 1:58 1:57 1:56 1:55 1:54 1:53 1:52 1:51 1:50 1:49 1:48 1:47 2:00 1:45 1:46 1:33 1:34 1:35 1:37 1:38 1:36 1:40 1:41 1:42 1:43 1:39 1:32 1:01 1:44 1:29 1:30 1:27 1:26 1:25 1:24 1:23 1:22 1:21 1:20 1:19 1:18 1:17 1:16 1:15 1:28 1:13 1:14 1:00 1:02 1:03 1:05 1:06 1:04 1:08 1:09 1:10 1:11 1:12 1:07 0:52 0:49 0:50 0:51 0:53 0:59 0:55 0:56 0:57 0:58 0:01 0:54 0:48 0:41 0:46 0:44 0:43 0:42 0:40 0:39 0:38 0:37 0:36 0:35 0:34 0:32 0:33 0:47 0:45 0:14 0:15 0:31 0:20 0:17 0:18 0:19 0:21 0:27 0:23 0:24 0:25 0:26 0:28 0:22 0:16 0:10 0:13 0:12 0:11 0:09 0:08 0:07 0:06 0:05 0:04 0:03 0:29 0:02 0:30 End

  29. What do you know about the Berlin Wall?

  30. The Berlin Wall 1961 The USA invested very heavily in West Berlin to show East Germans the benefits of capitalist West Germany…

  31. 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”

  32. Berlin Wall video

  33. Why does the Berlin Wall matter? It was the first “testing” of the new, young, US President, Kennedy, by Nikita Khrushchev…

  34. It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

  35. Berlin Wall 1961

  36. The end of the Wall Hasslehoff...

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