History Cold War

Question 1

How many countries where in the grand alliance

Answer 1

3

Question 2

What countries where in the grand alliance

Answer 2

Britain
The soviet union
The USA

Question 3

In what year was the Grand Alliance created?

Answer 3

1941

Question 4

When was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 4

November/december 1943

Question 5

What where the agreements about Germany at the Tehran conference?

Answer 5

USSR declared war on Japan after Germany defeated
USA and Britain agreed to invade

Question 6

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 6

February 1945

Question 7

Who attended the Tehran Conference

Answer 7

Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin

Question 8

What was discussed at the Yalta conference

Answer 8

Germany would be forced to pay reparations and demilitarised
Nazi control would be defeated

Question 9

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was reduced in size and divided into occupied zones, controlled by:

Answer 9

USA
USSR
Britain
France

Question 10

Who attended the Yalta conference

Answer 10

Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin

Question 11

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 11

July-August 1945

Question 12

What agreements where made at the Potsdam conference

Answer 12

Nazi party was banned
USSR receive 25% output from the 3 other split zones of Germany

Question 13

What year did Germany get split in 2

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

Describe the different ideologies Followed by the USA and the USSR

Answer 14

USA - capitalism (private enterprise)
USSR - Communism (state control)

Question 15

What did Churchill mean when he said an iron curtain divided Europe?

Answer 15

The separation between West and East Europe, sharing opposite ideas (Capitalism, Communism)

Question 16

Why were the long and Novikov telegrams important?

Question 17

What was the truman doctrine?

Question 18

What was cominform?

Question 19

What did cominform do?

Question 20

What happened in the berlin airlift?

Question 21

Give 2 consequences of the 1948-49 berlin crisis?

Question 22

What is meant by an arms race?

Question 23

Give 2 consequences of the Hungarian uprising

Question 24

What did khrushchev mean by peaceful co-existence

Question 25

Why was Berlin a source of tension between the superpowers?

Question 26

Describe Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum of 1958?

Question 27

How did the Paris and Vienna Summits affect the USSR's attitude towards Berlin?

Question 28

Give 2 consequences of the establishment of the berlin wall

Question 29

How did the Cuban missile crisis alter the course of the Cold war?

Question 30

Why did the USSR end the Prague Spring?

Question 31

How did other countries react to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia?

Question 32

What was the Brezhnev doctrine?

Question 33

What does detente mean

Question 34

Name three treaties signed by the superpowers in the 1970s

Question 35

How did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan change relations between the USA and the USSR?

Question 36

What was US president Ronald Reagan's attitude towards detente?

Question 37

What was the SDI?

Question 38

When did Mikhail Gorbachev become leader in the USSR?

Question 39

What were perestroika and glasnot?

Question 40

How did Gorbachev change soviet foreign policy?

Question 41

Why did opposition to communism rise in Eastern Europe after 1988?

Question 42

Why was there a political crisis in the USSR by 1990?

Question 43

Describe the events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union from 1990-91

Question 44

When did germany surrender the 2nd world war?

Answer 44

May 1945

Question 45

Give 2 consequences of the Tehran Conference

Answer 45

USA and Britain would invade France in 1944 USSR would join USA and Britain in war against Japan After Nazis been defeated

Question 46

Give 2 consequences of the Yalta Conference

Answer 46

Germany Divided into 4 zones United Nations would replace the league of nations (anyone can join apart from some in USSR)

Question 47

Give 2 consequences of the Potsdam conference

Answer 47

Germany Denazified Germany made to pay reparations for WW2 in assets and labour