List the days when the superpowers launched their bombs
USA- 1945 a bomb during Potsdam, 1952 h bomb USSR- 1949 a bomb, 1953 h bomb
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How much money did America lend in the marshall plan?
$13 billion
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When was the Deutschmark introduced?
1948, during the berlin blockade
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When was bizonia and trizonia formed?
1947
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How much did the Berlin Blockade cost the USSR?
$200,000,000
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When was Rakosi dictator of Hungary?
1949 to 1956
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How many did Rakosi imprison and kill?
imprisoned 287,000 and executed more than 2000
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When did Stalin die?
1953
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When was the secret speech?
1956
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In November, when Krushchev invaded Hungary, how many soldiers did he send, Hungarians died and fled?
200,000 Soviet troops, 20,000 Hungarians killed and 200,000 fled to Austtria
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How many East Germans fled in the Berlin Refugee Crisis?
2.7 million
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What was the period of the Berlin Refugee Crisis?
1949-1961
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When did Khrushchev declare the whole of Berlin as his?
November 1958, when he released the ultimatum during the Berlin Refugee Crisis
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When and what happened in the Paris summit?
in May 1960, Soviets shot down a US U2 spy plane. Eisenhower refused to apologize for sending the plane and Khrushchev walked out of the conference.
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When and what happened in the VIenna Conference?
in June 1961, Khrushchev reintroduced the ultimatum as he thought, new president, Kennedy was inexperienced. But Kennedy refused to back down, spend $3.2 billion on defence and $207 million on building nuclear shelters
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When and what happened in the Camp David Summit?
in September 1959, ultimatum was withdrawn
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When was the hotline introduced?
June 1963, to resolve issues quickly between superpowers
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When was the boycott of the Moscow and LA olympics?
moscow was in 1980 and LA was in 1984.
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When was President Reagan president and his Evil empire speech?
1980 and then 1983
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What did Reagan do that broke a treaty and put stress on the USSR?
He began the SDI, this meant Russia's nuclear missiles had no chance. America was winning the arms race. Also broke the outerspace treaty on 1967
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Define Perestroka and Glasnost
Perestroika= economic reforms to make soviet economy more efficient (restructuring), glasnost= censorship was relaxed
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How did relations between Reagan and Gorbachev between 1985 and 1986? and what did they sign in 1987 which also improved relations? What did Gorbachev do in 1989
They met at the Geneva and Reykjavik summit- no agreement but they established a good relationship. They signed the INF treaty in 1987 which removed all intermediate range nuclear missiles. 1989, Gorbachev withdrew soviet troops from Afghan.
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Why and when did the Warsaw Pact dissolve?
In July 1991, Poland and Hungary rejected communism therefore the pact no longer had a purpose and military cooperation ceased in early 1990.
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