Berlin Crisis 1945-1949

Question 1

Starvation, unable to buy luxuries, eating horse food, population and infrastructure affected greatly by the war

Answer 1

Postwar life in USSR

Question 2

Automobile industry, economy boomed

Answer 2

Postwar life in US

Question 3

Communist states after WW2 aligned with the USSR

Answer 3

Eastern Bloc

Question 4

Capitalist states after WW2 aligned with the US

Answer 4

Western Bloc

Question 5

Stalin’s speech blames capitalism for wars and conflict

Answer 5

February 1946

Question 6

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech warns of a divide between Eastern and Western Europe

Answer 6

March 1946

Question 7

Paris Conference, Molotov and Byrnes did not agree with post-war plans for Germany because of their countries’ economic differences

Answer 7

July 1946

Question 8

Marshall Plan, US gives aid to capitalist countries to rebuild after WW2

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

Molotov Plan, forbade Eastern European countries from accepting Marshall aid and gave them money as long as they were communist. USSR expected a bigger say in their government

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

Formation of Trizonia

Answer 10

1948

Question 11

Creation of NATO, peacetime military alliance for countries to ally against USSR

Answer 11

Mar 1949

Question 12

Creation of Comecon(Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), the USSR’s response to Marshall Aid

Answer 12

Jan 1949

Question 13

Introduction of Deutsche Mark

Answer 13

June 1948

Question 14

Berlin Blockade

Answer 14

June 1948-May 1949