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1. Beginnings of the Cold War

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  • Year Stalin died
    1947
    1945
    1950
    1953
  • Military alliance set up by the West in 1949 as a consequence of the Berlin Blockade .
    NATO
    GDR
    USSR
    OECD
  • Where is Yalta?
    France
    USSR
    Germany
    Poland
  • Method use by communists to take power bit by bit
    Cake Cutting
    Salami Slicing
    Potato Ricing
    Pizza Splicing
  • US President at Yalta.
    Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)
  • Amount of money invested in Europe by the Marshal Plan.
    136 billion
    1.36 trillion
    13.6 billion
    136 million
  • Last country in eastern Europe to fall to communism in 1949.
    Bulgaria
    Czechoslovakia
    Poland
    Hungry
  • Where in Germany did the allies hold a conference after the war had ended?
    potsdam
  • How many miles inside East Germany was Berlin?
    40
    60
    100
    80
  • Dates of Belin Airlift.
    May 1948 - April 1949
    June 1948 - May 1949
    July 1948 - August 1949
  • How many tonnes of supplies were flown into West Berlin daily y the USAF during the Berlin Airlift?.
    33,000
    3,000
    1.3 million
    13,000
  • First city where USA dropped an Atomic bomb in 1945 .
    Hiroshima
  • Two things Stalin did in reaction to the Marshall Plan.
    He set up Comecon and Cominform
  • What did the Truman doctrine say?
    It was the USA's job to stop communism spreading.
  • Stalin described the Marshal Plan as "Dollar ________'
    diplomacy
  • Two organizations set up by Stalin in reaction to the Marshall Plan.
    Comecon and Cominform
  • Number of people USSR lost in war against the Nazis.
    I7 million
    27 million
    7 million
    37 million
  • Stalin wanted Eastern Europe to be the Soviet Unions ... (B.Z.)
    Buffer Zone
  • Who said " An Iron Curtain is falling across Europe."
    Joseph Stalin
    Harry Truman
    Winston Churchill
    George Marshall
  • Stalin's version of the Marshal Plan for eastern Europe
    Cominform
    Comecon
    NATO
    Warsaw Pact
  • When did the Potsdam Conference begin?
    February 1945
    August 1945
    July 1945
    April 1945
  • Reason Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 and 49.
    Angry at single currency and setting up of Trizonia.
  • When did Germany surrender at the end of WW2?
    April
    June
    May
    July
  • The Berlin airlift lasted...
    A few months
    A few years
    Almost a year
    More than a year
  • Airport in West Berlin
    Templehoff
  • What does Comecon stand for
    Comecon - Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
  • Which country did President Truman send $400 m to in 1947 to stop it falling to communism?
    Hungary
    Czechoslovakia
    Greece
    Yugoslavia