Cold War - Questions

Explain why relations between the USA and USSR worsened in the Years 1947-1949

• Stalin setting up satellite states
• Comecon (1949) and cominform (1947)
• Marshall plan (1947) and Truman Doctrine (1947) 

Explain why relations between the USA and USSR changed in the years 1948 - 1953

• East and West Germany (1948)
• Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)
• Arms race (1945,1949,1953)

Explain why the relations between the USA and USST worsened in the years 1949 - 1955

• Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)
• Arms Race (1945)
• Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact (1949)

Explain why there was an uprising in Hungary in 1956

• Cominforms oppressive regime (1949)
• De-stalinisation (1953)
• Appointment of Matyas Rakosi (1949 - 1956)

Explain why realtions between the USA and USSR changed in the years 1943 - 1956

• The 3 conferences - Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945), Potsdam (1945)
• War of Words - Long Telegram (1946), Novikovs Telegram (1946)
• Truman Doctrine (1947) , Marshall Plan (1947)

Why did the gulf between the allied widen in the years 1943 - 1946

• The 3 conferences - Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945), Potsdam (1945)
• War of Words - Long Telegram (1946), Novikovs Telegram (1946)
• Truman Doctrine (1947) , Marshall Plan (1947)

Explain why relations between Cuba and the USA worsened in the years 1959 - 1961

• Fidel Castro wanted greater independence
• Failed invasion by Kennedy
• Castro asking Krushchev for help

Explain why there was a crisis over Cuba in 1962

• Cuban revolution (1959)
• Bay of Pigs (1961)
• Missile bases - led to "thirteen days" (1961)

Explain why Berlin was a cold war flashpoint in the years 1957 -1963

• Berlin crisis - Refugee problem (1958)
• Four summits - Geneva (may 1958), Camp David (Sept 1959), Paris (may 1960), Vienna (June 1961)
• Berlin Wall (12 August 1961)

Explain why reations between the USA abd USST changed in the years 1957 - 1969

• The Berlin Crisis (1958-1963)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
• Czecholovakia and the Prague Spring (1968-1969)

Explain why Cuba developed a close relationship with the Soviet Union in the years 1959-1962

• Cuban Revolution (1959)
• Bay of Pigs (1961)
• Missile bases (196)

Explain why relations betwwen the USA and the Soviet Union changed in the years 1979 - 1983

• Collapse of detente (19790
• Kabul Revolution (April 1979)
• The Carter doctrine (January 1980)

Explain why relations betwwen the USA and the Soviet Union changed in the years 1981 -1985

• Ronald Regan became President (1981) - Against detente
• "Evil Empire" speech by Reagan (March 1983)
• Gorbachevs New thinking (1985) - Glasnost and Peretrokia

Explain why detente collapsed in the years 1979 - 1984

• Kabul revolution (1978 - 1979)
• Soviet invasion of Afghnistan (Decemeber 1979)
• Carter Doctrine (1980)

Explain why realtions between the USA and Soviet Union changed in the years 1983 - 1987

• Reagans "evil empire" speech (march 1983)
• SDI or "Star Wars (1983)
• Geneva (1985) and Reykjavik (1986)

Explain why relations between the USA and the USSR changed in the years 1979 - 1991

• Collapse of detente (1979)
• President Reagan and the second cold war (1981)
• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
• Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)