Consequences Of The Berlin Blockade

Question 1

What was clear after the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 1

The division of Germany would continue, so the West had to establish a separate west Germany

Question 2

What happened 3 days after the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 2

USA, France and Britain permitted their zones to join as a state known as the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany)

Question 3

What happened on 14th Augsut 1949?

Answer 3

Germans in the new country (FRG) could elect their own parliament called the Bundestag

Question 4

What happened on 15th September 1949?

Answer 4

First democratically elected chancellor of the FRG, Konrad Adenaeur took office

Question 5

What was the FRG’S capital?

Answer 5

Bonn, much bigger than East Germany

Question 6

What did the three western-controlled zones of Berlin become?

Answer 6

West Berlin

Question 7

How did Stalin respond to the FRG?

Answer 7

made the GDR (German Democratic Republic) in October 1949

Question 8

Who recognised the GDR as a nation?

Answer 8

Only the communist bloc countries. FRG refused to recognise that Germany had been split into two until the 1970s

Question 9

People speak about West and East Germany but how did each German regard their own state?

Answer 9

As the real one

Question 10

What persuaded the Western powers that they needed a formal military alliance to protect themselves from Soviet Union, sending a message to Stalin that they were determined to stand firm against communism?

Answer 10

Stalin’s threat to Berlin and the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia happened in the same year

Question 11

What happened in April 1949?

Answer 11

USA, Britain, France and 9 other Western counteies joined in NATO

Question 12

What did members of NATO agree?

Answer 12

If any member was attacked, all members of NATO would come to assist

Question 13

Who had a major part in bringing about NATO and how?

Answer 13

British foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin. He made a speech in British parliament in which he said that European countries would welcome American involvement and called on other Western European countries to reach out to USA

Question 14

What was inevitable in regards to the defence of Western Europe after WW2?

Answer 14

That USA would get involved directly in the defence of Western Europe

Question 15

What was the creation of a military alliance (NATO) a step beyond?

Answer 15

Simply offering assistance in the Truman Doctrine

Question 16

What did NATO result in?

Answer 16

An ongoing military presence in Europe throughout the cold war, which has continued up to the present day

Question 17

When did Stalin’s fears increase?

Answer 17

Ehen the FRG could join NATO in May 1955

Question 18

Why was the FRG being allowed to join NATO a problem?

Answer 18

There was a real dnager of an armed and powerful Germany on the borders of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe

Question 19

What happened within a week of West Germany joining NATO?

Answer 19

USSR formed an equivalent communist defensive military alliance - the Warsaw Pact (1955)

Question 20

What did the countries in the Warsaw Pact become known as?

Answer 20

The ‘Eastern Bloc’

Question 21

Although the warsaw pact had many member states, who was the leader?

Answer 21

The leadership was entirely Soviet and the alliance was under the command of thr USSR

Question 22

What did the Warsaw Pact establish?

Answer 22

That there reallt were two Europes. One was under the protection of the USA and working to defeat communism. The other was led by the Soviet Union and seeking to extend communist control

Question 23

What did the confrontation between the two military camps in NATO and Warsaw pact drive?

Answer 23

International relations for the next 35 years