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What year and month was Yalta?
What were the four big agreements at Yalta?
What was the mood at Yalta and why?
(3 points)
What changed in between Yalta and Potsdam?
(5 points)
What year and month was Potsdam?
Why did Americans hate Communists and vise versa?
What did Truman and Stalin disagree on at Potsdam?
What was Stalin's policy in eastern Europe?
(3 points)
When did the US and the USSR make their first A-bombs respectively?
When did the US and the USSR develop their first H-bombs, respectively?
What was Cominform?
What was Comecon?
What country behind the Iron Curtain almost remained democratic and what happened?
What country was the exception to Moscow control, who was their leader and what happened?
Why did the US and the USSR never fight?
What three (linked) policies did President Truman implement?
What was The Marshall Plan and what event caused Congress to pass it?
What was the Truman Doctrine?
What happened in Greece, when, and what did the USA do?
How much money did the US send to Greece and Turkey?
What did the Western powers do in their zones of Germany that caused the Berlin Blockade and when? (3 points)
Why did Stalin blockade Berlin? (3 points)
How many tonnes of supplies were airlifted in per day?
How long did the Berlin Blockade last?
What was the effect of the Berlin Blockade?
What was NATO and when was it formed?
When did Bizonia become West Germany and what was East Germany formally called?
When did North Korea attack South Korea and why? (2 points)
Why did the US convince the UN to attack North Korea? (2 points)
Who was the commander of the US troops in Korea, 1950?
Why did China join the Korean war?
When did Truman call a ceasefire in Korea and why?
When did Stalin die?
Who took over from Stalin and what effect did this have?
What did Khrushchev do to promote peace? (3 points)
Who was the new US president and when were they elected?
What was SEATO and CENTO and when were they formed?
What was the Warsaw Pact and when was it set up?
Why was the Warsaw Pact set up?
Who was Nagy, when did he come to power and why?
What did Nagy do that caused the Hungarian Uprising and when?
What country was Nagy trying to mimic?
What was the Soviet response and when did it occur?
What happened when the tanks rolled in? (3 points)
Why didn’t the US do anything? (2 points)
What did the Hungarian Uprising show?
What is an ICBM?
What country first test fired an ICBM and when did they do this?
What did the US call their first ICBM and when did they launch it?
What country had the first submarine-launched ICBM, what was it called and when did they do this?
In 1961 how many ICBM’s did the US have, and in 1967 how many ICBM’s did they have?
When and why did the USSR catch up?
Who got the first man in space, when and who was he?
What was the US’s space program called?
Who got the first man on the moon, when and who was he?
