Chapter 2 (1945-48)

Question 1

Date of the Iron Curtain Speech

Answer 1

March 1946

Question 2

Tactic Stalin used in Poland and Hungary

Answer 2

Salami tactics

Question 3

How did Stalin break the Declaration on Liberated Europe?

Answer 3

By installing Lublin Poles in Poland and removing London Poles from government gradually

Question 4

Countries in which the socialist and communist parties merged

Answer 4

Poland and Hungary

Question 5

Year of rigged elections in Poland to ensure a communist victory

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

Communist leader who was executed in Hungary for displaying anti-Moscow tendencies

Answer 6

Rajk, in 1949

Question 7

Country in which the leader of the Smallholders party was arrested

Answer 7

Hungary

Question 8

The leader of the Agrarian party who was executed in Bulgaria

Answer 8

Petkov

Question 9

Which country were all other political parties banned (in 1947)?

Answer 9

Bulgaria

Question 10

Leader of Yugoslavia

Answer 10

Tito

Question 11

Country expelled from cominform due to not wanting to be controlled by Moscow

Answer 11

Yugoslavia

Question 12

Date of Kennan’s Long Telegram

Answer 12

February 1946

Question 13

Soviet response to Kennan’s long telegram

Answer 13

Novikov telegram

Question 14

Name of article in Kennan’s long telegram = systematic and focused containment of soviet expansionism

Answer 14

‘X’ article

Question 15

Novikov telegram: number of US military bases in Atlantic ocean

Answer 15

288

Question 16

Novikov telegram: percentage of budget spent on improving US military

Answer 16

40%

Question 17

Purpose of the Novikov telegram

Answer 17

To persuade Stalin to be more aggressive and paranoid towards the USA, claimed that the USA wants global expansion

Question 18

Contents of the Iron Curtain speech

Answer 18

A direct attack of soviet policies, have expansionist aims and want to spread communism

Question 19

Soviet response to the Iron Curtain speech

Answer 19

Stalin’s response in the Pravda newspaper

Question 20

Term Stalin called Churchill in his Pravda response

Answer 20

‘War mongerer’

Question 21

Date of the Truman Doctrine

Answer 21

March 1947

Question 22

Event that caused the Truman Doctrine

Answer 22

Britain pulling out of supporting the monarchists in the Greek Civil War

Question 23

Date of The Percentages Agreement

Answer 23

1944

Question 24

Reason the USSR doesn’t step into Greece and fill the ‘power vacuum’

Answer 24

The Percentages Agreement

Question 25

Contents of the Truman Doctrine

Answer 25

The USA will provide economic aid to any country facing the threat of communism

Question 26

Soviet response to the Truman Doctrine

Answer 26

The Zhdanov Doctrine

Question 27

Contents of the Zhdanov Doctrine

Answer 27

Belief that the world is dividing into two camps, the USA are creating an anti-soviet sphere of influence

Question 28

Date Cominform was set up

Answer 28

1947 (Zhdanov)

Question 29

Purpose of Cominform

Answer 29

Coordinate communist parties in Europe, controlled by Moscow, anti-American