1. Origins

Question 1

Tehran: November 1943

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Answer 1

Second front in France
War with Japan
Set up of the UN
Polish borders

Question 2

Yalta: February 1945

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Answer 2

What to do with Germany?
Nazi trial
Division of Germany and Berlin
Elections in liberated countries
Soviets demanded high German reparations

Question 3

8 May 1945

Answer 3

VE day

Question 4

16 July 1945

Answer 4

First successful test of the atomic bomb in USA

Question 5

Potsdam: July 1945

Stalin, Truman, Atlee

Answer 5

4 Ds - division, democracy, demilitarisation, denazification

Question 6

Nuremburg War Trials: 1945-1949

Answer 6

Fair oppertunity to defend themselves

Leading Nazis sentenced to death

Question 7

Long Telegram 1946

Answer 7

American Ambassador to Washington (George Kennan)
Stalin wanted destruction of capitalism and thinks US want to destroy communism
Thinks USSR could back down

Question 8

Novikov Telegram 1946

Answer 8

Soviet diplomat to Moscow (Nikolai Novikov)
Thought US wanted to dominate Russia with military powers
Didn’t want to cooperate

Question 9

Soviet expansion (countries)

Answer 9

Czechslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria

Question 10

How did Soviet expansion happen?

Answer 10

Coalitions set up
Tool over media and civil services
Other parties arrested
Fixed results for elections

Question 11

Truman Doctrine: March 1947

Answer 11

The comtainment of communism in Europe
Made because UK ran out of funding
No longer following isolationism

Question 12

Marshall Plan: 1948-1952

Answer 12

George Marshall, Secretary of State
Economic aid to war torn countries to contain communism
$13 billion of aid

Question 13

Cominform: September 1947

Answer 13

Communist Information Bureau
Stalin could ensure countries took orders from Moscow
Trade with eachothe pr but nobody outside
Yugoslavia expelled in 1948 because Tito didnt want to take orders from Stalin

Question 14

Comecon: January 1949

Answer 14

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Alternative to aid being given ti the rest of Europe
5 year industrial plan

Question 15

Berlin Blockade: June 1948

Answer 15

Stalin accused West of interfering and cut off all road, rail and canal traffic

Question 16

The Berlin Airlift: 28 June 1948, 10 months

Answer 16

Planes landing at 90 second intervals
4600 tons of supplies a day not enough
Continued to April 1949 13000 tons landed in 24 hours at peak
Stalin called off blockade May 1949

Question 17

NATO: 1949

Answer 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
12 countries
If any member was attacked others would assist
West Germany joined in 1955

Question 18

Warsaw Pact: 1955

Answer 18

Response to NATO
Eastern bloc
Alliance under control of Soviet Union

Question 19

Arms Race

Answer 19

First tested atom bomb - USA, 1945 and USSR, 1949
First tested hydrogen bomb - USA, 1952 and USSR, 1953
Spending of USA almost double USSR by 1953

Question 20

Space Race

Answer 20

Sputnik 1 - USSR Earth orbitting satellite, 1957
Sputnik 2- first animal in space

First US satellite in space, 1958