The Cold war

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  • Created by: Becky
  • Created on: 12-04-13 22:07
When did Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba?
1959
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How many presidents ruled during the Cold war? (starting with Harry trueman and ending with George W Bush)
9
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How long did the Cuban missile Crisis last?
13 days
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which Soviet leader died in 1953?
Joseph Stalin
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What did Detente mean?
a lessening of tensions
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Where was president Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas
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Who were the Vietcong?
guerilla fighters in the south wanting to help the communist north
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Before Ronald Reagan became president he was a
movie star
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when in America Khrushchev was banned from where?
Disneyland
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after the Cuban Missile crisis what was set up between the two leader?
a telephone hotline
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Mikhail Gornechaev resigned on the 25th of?
December
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When was the Berlin Blockade?
1948
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During the Berlin airlift on average how many planes landed in Berlin?
3 minutes
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who were the big 3?
Churchill, roosevelt and stalin
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why was the cold war called the cold war?
there was no physical fighting involved
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The USSR invaded which country in the 1980's?
Afghanistan
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nye

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Why can't you write sentences properly?

gobyliscious

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Some of this stuff is fairly irrelevant or insignificant. You should've at least focused on  most of the pivotal or important events in the Cold War!

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