Exam Technique

Question 1

Consequences of The Cuban missles crisis?

Answer 1

P1: treaties: 1963 test ban, 1963 hotline, 1967 outer-space treaty, 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty

P2: leaders: “Khrushchev criticised by hard line communists-dismissal in 1964. Kennedy popularity: I am A berliner speech 1963}

Question 2

Consequences of the praque spring 1968

Answer 2

P1: Pravda newspaper announces the Brezhnev docrine September 1968-change in soviet policy+ greater control of Warsaw pact members

P2: strains links from Romania and Yugoslavia, communist parties of Italy and France cut of links with Moscow

Question 3

Consequences of the Berlin walls formation in 1961?

Answer 3

P1: people cut of from family, big symbol of cold war, people trying to cross

P2: -Both sides realise they can’t unite Germany, looks bad on Khrushchev-locking people in, refugee crisis solved, US hypocracy

Question 4

Consequences of truman doctrine?

Answer 4

P1: Marshall plan June 1947

P2: worsened Soviet relations- Comecon 1949- NATO 1949

Question 5

Consequences of Tehran 1943

Answer 5

P1: second front(Stalin suspicious as he felt it was delayed)

P2: Japan,Poland

Question 6

Consequences of Yalta conference?

Answer 6

P1: Germany: 4 zones 20 billion repararations

P2: European goverments decided in free elections, United nations

Question 7

Consequences of Potsdam?

Answer 7

P1: Berlin: 4 zones, Stalin gets 1/4 industrial equipment

P2:Truman against Soviet influence in Poland-increased tensions

Question 8

Consequences of Soviet invasion of Afganistan December 1979?

Answer 8

P1: destroys relations-end of Détente, Reagan elected 1980, olympic boycott 1980,1984

P2: US strong reaction:

Carter doctrine 1980 USA would repel by force if necessary any threat to American intrests in the Persian Gulf

USA supply Mujahadeen with weapons, US increase spending on arms

Weapons to Mujahadeen

Question 9

What were the consequences of the Helsinki accords in 1975?

Answer 9

Agreements

Basket 1:European borders
Basket 2: more international co-operation(trade ect)
Basket 3: respect humans rights

P1: Soviets happy with basket 1 and 2 but unhappy with 3

P2: US happy with basket 3 but unhappy with Basket 1 and 2

Question 10

Conseqeunces of the collapse of Communism

Answer 10

P1: fall of Berlin wall in 1989-symbolic

P2:-failed coup against Gorbachev-Warsaw pact disbands 1991