Early Cold War 1945-1955

Question 1

Where were the two conferences involving the big 3 in 1945?

Answer 1

Yalta, Potsdam

Question 2

Name the big 3 at both conferences

Answer 2

Churchill, Roosavelt, Stalin

Question 3

Name 3 things agreed at the first conference

Answer 3

1 splitting of Berlin/Germany
2 Punishment of war crimes
3 fight Japan

Question 4

When did Roosavelt die of polio?

Answer 4

12th April 1945

Question 5

When did Hitler kill himself?

Answer 5

30th April 1945

Question 6

what date was VE Day?

Answer 6

8 May 1945

Question 7

Who were the big three at the second conference in July 1945?

Answer 7

Truman, Atlee, Stalin

Question 8

Give three reasons there was conflict at the second conference

Answer 8

USSR wanted Germany to pay lots in reparation

Question 9

What else was agreed at the second conference?

Answer 9

USSR would help Germany

United Nations

Question 10

What did the allies disagree over

Answer 10

Treatment of Germany

Question 11

What did the US inform the USSR about at the second conference?

Answer 11

Testing of Atomic bombs

Question 12

Where did the US drop two atomic bombs and when?

Answer 12

Nakasaki, Hiroshima - August 1945

Question 13

Which four countries controlled sectors of Germany?

Answer 13

Britain, France, USSR, USA

Question 14

To which country did Germany have to pay most reparations to after ww2?

Answer 14

USSR

Question 15

Where and when was Churchill’s iron curtain speech?

Answer 15

5 March 1946, Fulton Missouri

Question 16

Which six countries lay east of the iron curtain?

Answer 16

Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, USSR, China, Poland

Question 17

Where did the war crimes trials take place in Germany and when?

Answer 17

Neuremburg, 1947

Question 18

How did the USA help war torn countries?

Answer 18

Marshall aid

Question 19

How did Stalin react to this policy?

Answer 19

he forbade it

Question 20

What policy did the US follow to restrict communism?

Answer 20

Containment

Question 21

What did the USSR set up to control communist countries and when?

Answer 21

Cominform, 1947

Question 22

What was the economic side to Cominform?

Answer 22

Commmecon

Question 23

What was the last country behind the iron curtain to go communist and when?

Answer 23

Czechoslovakia, 1948

Question 24

When did the Berlin Blockade begin?

Answer 24

June 1948

Question 25

How did the west supply Berlin during the blockade?

Answer 25

Airlift

Question 26

When did Stalin call off the blockade?

Answer 26

May 1949

Question 27

When was NATO set up an what is its full name?

Answer 27

April 1949, North Atlantic treaty organisation

Question 28

What does the FRG stand for?

Answer 28

The Federal republic of Germany

Question 29

What does the GDR stand for?

Answer 29

German Democratic republic

Question 30

When did China go communist?

Answer 30

1949

Question 31

When did the USSR develop their first atomic bomb?

Answer 31

1949

Question 32

When was the Korean War?

Answer 32

1950-1953

Question 33

When did Stalin die?

Answer 33

5th March 1953

Question 34

Which country joined NATO in 1955?

Answer 34

West Germany

Question 35

When was the Warsaw Pact set up?

Answer 35

1955