East-West boundaries

Question 1

What was Comecon

Answer 1

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Opposition to Marshall aid )

Question 2

What did Comecon do

Answer 2

1) Gave Financial aid to Satellite states
2) Encouraged trade with USSR
3) (didn’t give much because USSR was poor )

Question 3

What was Cominform

Answer 3

Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties

Question 4

What did Cominform do

Answer 4

1) Encouraged uprisings and communist parties

2) Disrupted opposition parties in satellite states

Question 5

What was Nato

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treating Organisation

Question 6

What did NATO do

Answer 6

1) Practiced “Collective Security”

2) Mutal Defence - If one nation is attacked , all nations are attacked

Question 7

What was the USSR Alternative to NATO

Answer 7

The Warsaw Pact

Question 8

What did the Rentenmark Change to

Answer 8

Deutschmarks

Question 9

When did the Berlin Blockade start

Answer 9

24/06/1948

Question 10

What would happen if Truman confronted Stalin during the Blockade?

Answer 10

A hot war

Question 11

How did the Americans transport supplies over the Blockade

Answer 11

Flew them over

Question 12

What consequences did the Blockade bring

Answer 12

1) America showed strength
2) Made Soviets look selfish
3) Humiliation for Soviets
4) Creation Of FDR and GDR