2º Bach Sección · A Balance of Terror · QUESTIONS (Ilustrated History USA, pg 120- 123)

             

1. Who made the 1^st H-bomb and when? 
2. What does H-bomb and  A-bomb mean? Which is more destructive? 
3. What countries could afford to go on making H-bombs?
4. Who was the Secretary of State under Eisenhower’s presidency?
5. What is a Secretary of State?
6. What did this  Secretary of State think about how Truman dealt with the Russians?
7. How did he change this attitude later and why?
8. What was “brinkmanship”?
9. What was the threat of “massive retaliation”?
10. Were the Americans worried by the Sputnik? What worried them and why?
11. What were the nuclear missiles?
12.  What was The Polaris?
13. Explain “balance of terror”.
14. Explain Khrushchev’s concept “peace of coexistence”.
15. Why didn’t the Paris summit take place?

SPACE RACE

16. Name the two reasons for the Space Race between the USA & the USSR.
17. What is the name of the mission to put the 1^st man on the Moon?
18. How many men were in this mission? How many stepped down on the Moon’s surface?

BERLIN WALL

19. When was the Berlin Wall built? Why?
20. When was the Berlin Wall destroyed?

CRISIS OVER CUBA

21. How did Fidel Castro start the revolution in Cuba?
22. What happened in the Bay of Pigs?
23. Why did the Russians help Cuba?
24. What did Kennedy do to stop the Russians?
25. Why was the world horrified in October 1962?
26. What did the two superpowers do to reach an agreement? 

Superpower . Cold War & Korea · QUESTIONS (Illustrated History USA, pg 117-120)

                

1. In what year was the USA the Superpower in the world ? Why do you think it was? (not mentioned in the text)
2. Who was the 2nd superpower? What part of Europe did they control?
3. How was the frontier between the west & the communist block called?
4. How was the relationship between the USA & Russia?
5. How would you define the Cold War?
6. How did the Marshall plan start?
7. How did it work? Was it effective?
8. Where was the boundary between the two Koreas?
9. Into how many zones was Germany at the beginning and in the end?
10. How did the Russians react when the Americans created a new currency  for Germany? Why?
11. What happened after  that?
12. How did the Americans and British do after that?
13. What was the consequence of the end of the Berlin blockade?
14. Why did America’s plan to create a united Korea fail? Explain.
15. When did the Korean war end? Name the two reasons for it.
16. Who decided to create NATO? Why?
17. What does NATO mean?
18. When and where was it signed?