Cold War Unit 3

The Berlin Wall was built because the USSR wanted revenge in Berlin after their ​ (a)   had failed in the 1940s. Living standards were poor in ​ (b)   Germany and Berliners kept trying to escape to the West – the USSR were scared they would have no-one left. Many of those leaving East Germany were professionals. The Hungarian uprising had made the USSR harsher in their treatment of those in the East – they wanted to flee. ​ (c)   was now the president in the USA. ​ (d)   thought he was a ‘soft touch’ so he built the Berlin Wall to see how America would act.

• blockade
• airlift
• West
• East
• JFK
• Johnson
• Khrushchev
• Stalin

Organise these statements about the Berlin Wall to indicate if they are true or false.

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Families were allowed to see one another on other side of wall

• Easy to escape from the East

• Built to divide East and West Berlin

• Checkpoint Charlie was the one crossing point in the wall

• A concrete wall replaced barbed wire

• Built 1961

• Nobody was killed trying to cross the wall

• No border guards on the wall

• All free movement ended from East to West

The Berlin wall represented the ​ (a)   nature of the USSR. It was a constant source of tension. JFK spoke ​ (b)   about Communism in Berlin. However, the USA were ​ (c)   that the USSR were not using violent action. The USSR saw the wall as a ​ (d)   shell against the West. Their suspicion of the USA increased – fear of ​ (e)   especially.

• aggressive
• peaceful
• negatively
• positively
• espionage
• nuclear weapons
• relieved
• worried
• protective
• defenceless

What is the name of the Cuban right-wing dictator who was overthrown by communists led by Castro?

The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April ​ (a)   was a failed attack launched by the ​ (b)   during the ​ (c)   administration to push Cuban leader ​ (d)   from power. Cuban exiles were the

attackers.

• 1961
• 1963
• CIA
• FBI
• Kennedy
• Johnson
• Fidel Castro
• General Batista

Reorder the following events of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Steps began for the removal of Soviet missiles under supervision of the UN

• JFK issued a naval quarantine of Cuba

• The USSR sent a letter asking for the removal of US Jupiter missiles from Turkey

• American spy plane flew over Cuba and photographed missile sites

• USSR sent a letter saying they would remove missiles from Cuba in return for a promise from the US not to invade the island

What was the name of the special team of advisers set up by JFK to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Why did the discovery of nuclear missile sites on Cuba cause alarm for the US? Choose one answer.

• Cuba very close to the US (160km). If the missiles were fired from Cuba it would result in the death of millions of American people.

• Cuba had been planning to attack the USA for years and this was a sign they were close to doing so.

• The US had no nuclear missiles so could not retaliate if attacked.

The Cuban Missile Crisis had almost led to...

Which are these statements are consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Select as many correct answers as you wish.

• Cuba stayed Communist and highly armed but the nuclear missiles were withdrawn

• A permanent direct ‘hot line’ was set up between the White House and the Kremlin

• A Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed

• Anti-communism decreased in the USA as intervention was deemed to be too ‘high-risk’

• Kennedy’s reputation in America was improved

  and Khrushchev was seen by the Soviets as a reasonable peacemaker