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Flashcards by Adam Collinge, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adam Collinge
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| Question | Answer |
| When was the long telegram received? | February 1946 |
| What was the Long Telegram? | A secret report from the US ambassador, Kennan, in Moscow to President Truman |
| What three things did the Long telegram say? | 1)The USSR saw capitalism as a threat that communism had to destroy 2) The USSR was building its military power 3) Peace between a communist USSR and capitalist USA would never be possible |
| When was the Novikov telegram received? | September 1946 |
| What was the Novikov telegram? | A report from Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the USA |
| What did the Novikov telegram say? | 1) The USA wanted world domination and was building its military strength 2) The USSR was the only country that could fight the USA 3) The USA was preparing its people for was with the USSR |
| what year did the USSR test an atomic bomb? | 1949 |
| When did the USA develop the more powerful Hydrogen bomb? | 1952 |
| When did the USSR develop a H-bomb? | 1953 |
| Suggest two reasons why the grand alliance started to fall apart. | Opposite political ideologies created strong tensions and with no common enemy, the superpowers had no reasons to fight together |
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