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Flashcards by Amy Crossland, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Amy Crossland
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Why was America finding it difficult to defeat Japan? | Japan had 5 million "Kamikaze" soldiers- they would rather die than surrender. |
| When, where & who by was the first atomic bomb tested? | -March 1945 -In a desert in Mexico -By America |
| When & where was the first atom bomb dropped? | 6th August 1945, 8:15am on Hiroshima in Japan. |
| What was the name of the bomber plane that dropped it? What was the name of the bomb? | Enola Gay was the plane. Little Boy was the bomb. |
| What was the damage caused by "Little Boy"? | -Anyone within 1km was dead. -The centre of the bomb was hotter than the sun. -70,000 people died -Tens of thousands died from radiation poisoning in the following years. -78,000 buildings destroyed |
| When & where was the second atom bomb dropped? | 9th August 1945, Nagasaki, Japan. |
| What was the damage caused by "Fat Man", and what did Japan do? | -36,000 people died -60,000 casualties. Japan surrendered. |
| When & who by was Stalin told about the atomic bomb? | He was told by Truman at the start of the Potsdam Conference. |
| How did the existence of the atomic bomb increase rivalry between the USA and the USSR? | -Stalin was convinced that the USA used the bombs as a warning to the USSR. -An arms race emerged with the USSR determined to develop its own atom bomb. |
| What is the definition of a 'buffer zone'? And which countries did Stalin want to use as a 'buffer zone' or 'friendly states'? | -'Buffer Zone': An area of land used for protection. -Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. |
| After the was, what did Stalin do to ensure he got a 'buffer zone' of 'friendly states'? | Even though at the Yalta Conference they agreed that Eastern European countries could have free elections, the elections were rigged to allow communist parties to take over (who were supported by the USSR). |
| What then happened to the opponents of communism? | In Bulgaria, Albania, Poland, Romania & Hungary, all opponents were beaten, (murdered) or frightened into supporting communism. The countries of Eastern Europe became satellite states ( under the control of the USSR). Europe was now divided, East and West. |
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