Cold War - Dates & Statistics

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How much did Stalin want Germany to pay in reparations?
$10 Million
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What amount of industrial goods did USSR get from the reparations in Germany?
One quarter of goods made in Western Zones in Germany
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How much aid did the USA give to Greece in 1947?
$400 Million
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How many countries accepted Marshall Aid?
16
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How much money was given to recipients of Marshall Aid in total?
$13.75 Billion
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At what rate were Western planes flying over Berlin during the Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)?
One plane every three minutes
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How much did the Berlin Airlift cost?
$224 Million
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When did the USA explode the first 2 atomic bombs?
August 1945
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Where were these bombs exploded?
Japan (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
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When did the USSR explode their first a-bomb?
1949
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When did the USA develop their first hydrogen bomb?
1952
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When did the Soviet Union develop their first h-bomb?
1955
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When did the USSR install pro-Soviet puppet governments and where?
1945-1948; Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania
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What did Comecon do in 1949?
Nationalized state industries and collectivized agriculture
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When did the Cuban Missile Crisis begin & end?
16th October 1962 - 28th October 1962
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When did Castro overthrow Batista and how?
1959; Guerilla war in Cuba
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What did Castro change in Cuba when he first came into power?
Shut down brothels & gambling casinos, and nationalised US-owned sugar mills in Cuba
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How much did the USSR give to Cuba in aid?
$100 Million (Relations between the countries established in 1960)
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What did Eisenhower begin to do in 1960 in response to the Cuban revolution?
Began to train 1,400 Cuban exiles (CIA training)
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How much did Kennedy spend on the Bay of Pigs invasion?
$45 Million
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When did America sever relations with Cuba?
1961
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How many Cuban exiles fought in the Bay of Pigs, and how many Cuban soldiers were they met by?
1,400 Cuban exiles met by 20,000 Cuban troops (outnumbered by 18,600)
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When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
17th April 1961 - 19th April 1961
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What happened on 16th October 1962?
An American U2 spy plane took pictures of a nuclear missile base being built on Cuba
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How many US ships did Kennedy place around Cuba in the naval blockade, and when?
180 ships; 22 October 1962
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When did Khrushchev send both of his letters of negotiation to Kennedy, and what was the difference in the letters?
1st Letter - 26th October 1962, 2nd Letter - 27th October 1962. In the second letter, Khrushchev demanded that Kennedy remove missiles from Cuba, which Kennedy agreed to in secret
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