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GCSE History: The Development of the Cold War

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many total Divisions did the Warsaw Pact have?

(a)  

2.

How many Divisions did NATO have?

(a)  

3.

In what year did Stalin die?

(a)  

4.

When was Khrushchev's 'Secret speech'?

(exact date)

(a)  

5.

In what year was Sputnik put into orbit?

(a)  

6.

In what year did the US launch their own satellite?

(a)  

7.

When did the Soviets launch the first man (Yuri Gagarin) into space?

(a)  

8.

In what year did the Americans 'win' the space race?

(a)  

9.

When was the Apollo/Soyuz mission?

(month and year)

(a)  

10.

In what year did the US explode first H-bomb?

(a)  

11.

In what year did the Soviets develop a H-bomb?

(a)  

12.

When did the Soviets first successfully test an atomic bomb?

(exact date)

(a)  

13.

In what year did the Americans begin to use U2 spy planes?

(a)  

14.

What was the name of the US's 1950's nuclear drill campaign?

(a)  

15.

On what day did the Hungarian Uprising start?

(a)  

16.

What was the name of the hard line Stalinist leader of Hungary?

(a)  

17.

When were Soviet forces withdrawn from Hungary?

(a)  

18.

What was the name of the new leader of Hungary during the uprising?

(a)  

19.

When did Nagy announce he was withdrawing from the Warsaw pact, sparking soviet response?

(a)  

20.

On what day was the uprising crushed?

(a)  

21.

After Nagy's execution who became the new leader of Hungary

(a)  

22.

How many Hungarian refugees would flee the country?

(a)  

23.

When was the Hungarian problem raised with the UN?

(a)  

24.

The contemporary ____ ______ meant that the UN's response was weak

(a)  

25.

On what day was Gary Power shot down over the USSR?

(a)  

26.

The U2 incident happened days before what?

(a)  

27.

In what year was Gary Power exchanged with Rudolf Abel on the so-called 'bridge of spies'?

(a)  

28.

What was the name of the US president who refused to apologize to Khrushchev after the U2 spy plane incident?

(a)  

29.

In the early days of what month and year did the Vienna peace summit take place?

(a)  

30.

By 1960, how many East Germans had migrated to the west?

(a)  

31.

When was the Berlin Wall started?

(exact date)

(a)  

32.

In what month and year did the Checkpoint Charlie incident take place?

(a)  

33.

When did Kennedy go to Berlin?

(month and year)

(a)  

34.

How many West Germans listened to his speech?

(a)