Unit 4 WACE

When was truman doctrine?

March 1947

Truman full name

Harry S. Truman

How much money to greece and turkey?

$400 million USD

When was Marshall plan?

June 1947

Who made Marshall plan?

Secretary of State General George Marshall

how much aid in USD did the Marshall plan provide?

$13 billion USD

British Foreign Secretary quote marshall plan

“A lifeline to sinking men, giving hope where there was none.” (Berin, 1947)

When was NATO formed?

April 1949

NATO full name

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Berlin blockade/airlift dates

June 1948 - May 1949

When was Trizonia formed?

March 1948

Currency of Trizonia

Deutschmark

How many West berliners isolated?

2.2 million

Truman quote berlin airlift

“We are going to stay, period.” (Truman, 1948)

How many days of food and coal did west berlin have?

36 days of food, 45 days of coal

How long was the blockade?

318 days

How many flights took place over the year

More than 200 000

Peak flights delivering supplies stat

“At peak 1 400 flights delivered 13 000 tons of supplies in a single day in April 1949

West germany proper name

Federal Republic of Germany

East germany proper name

German Democratic Republic

When was prague spring?

1968

WHen was Hungarian Uprising?

1956

Historian containment quote

“Offered a third way between appeasement and fighting a third World War.” (Gaddis, 2013)

When was the cuban missile crisis?

1962

Treaty that resulted from cuban missile crisis

Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treay 1963

Around when was detente initiated

1968ish

When did detente collapse

1979 with USSR invasion of Afghanistan

When was nuclear parity reached?

late 1960s

Treaties of SALT I

ABM treaty, Interim Treaty, Basic Principles Agreement

ABM treaty

Limited anti-ballistic missiles to only two sites each with a limit of 100 missiles at each site

Interim treaty

5 year freeze on ICBM production

Basic Principles Agreement

General rules for conduct of nuclear war, desire to prevent conflict, peaceful coexistence

Limits of SALT I

Did not account for missiles with multiple warheads

Sassy SALT historian quote

“About as meaningful as freezing the cavalry of European countries in 1938, but not the tanks.” (Ambrose, 2011)

When was SALT II signed?

June 1979

When were the Helsinki accords produced?

1973

Basket 1

Recognised East german fronteirs

Basket 2

Closer ties and collaboration e.g. trades with USA and USSR

Basket 3

Human rights

End of detente historian quote

“By the end of the 1970s the complexities and contradictions of detente had become explosive.” (Fitzgerald, 1992)

Gorbachev foreign policy quote

“The force and the threat of force, cannot and should not be an instrument of foreign policy.” (Gorbachev, 1988)

Berlin Wall

1961-1989

Stalin death

1963