Leaders
Conferences
What is ?
100
He was the president of the United States, elected in 1953, and have previously commanded the Allied Armies in Normandy in 1944.
Who was Dweight Eisenhower ?
100
The aim was to grant Austria's independence and arranged for the withdrawal of all occupation forces.
What was the aim of The Austrian Sate Treaty ?
100
What was Castle Bravo ?
Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb, it was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States
200
He was a communist Party leader, he introduced the idea of 'New Course' to change Soviet's relations by co-operating with the East until Marxist aims of communist society could be fulfilled.
Who was George Malenkov ?
200
the conference in 1955 was attended by U.S., France, Britain, and the Soviet Union, Though no agreements were reached.
Who attended the Geneva Summit in 1955 ?
200
was the Cold War term used in the US for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with its own
What is the Missile Gap ?
300
Who was the Soviet Union from 1955 until 1964 ?
Nikita Khrushchev
300
During the Geneva Summit both the US and the Soviet Union made some proposals which ended with rejections from both sides, what was the proposal made by the United States during the conference.
one of the US's proposals was an 'Open Skies'  It called for the United States and the Soviet Union to exchange maps indicating the exact location of every military installation in their respective nations.
300
Introduced by Eisenhower in 1957, when a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
What is Eisenhower Doctrine ?
400
Gary Powers
What was the name of the U2 pilot who was captured by the Soviets and later confessed that he was a spy ?
400
Set under Eisenhower's administration it was a national security policy where it aim was to prevent any expansion of the Soviet system and proposed the use of nuclear weapons and new technology rather than ground troops and conventional bombs
What is the New Look Policy ?
400
It's a term used to describe the pushing of military to the brink of war in order to convince another nation to follow your demands, originally introduced by the US Secretary of State John Dulles.
What is Brinkmanship ?
500
What was the name of the U2 pilot who was captured by the Soviets and later confessed that he was a spy ?
Gary Powers
500
In the Paris Summit 1960, what made Khrushchev angry that he cancelled the scheduled visit of US president Eisenhower to the Soviet Union ?
Khrushchev expected an apology from the US president Eisenhower regarding the U2 incident, however, Eisenhower refused to apologize claiming it was a vital necessity.
500
Sputnik
What was the name of the world's first artificial satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union to prove the Soviet superiority in missile technology ?
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