Mock revision

Question 1

What was the Occupation Statue?

Answer 1

• A treaty defining the rights of Britain, France and USA in West Germany

Question 2

What happened on 7th June 1947?

Answer 2

• Germans in the Western Zones were granted permission to create a constitution for a democratic. federal West Germany

Question 3

What happened on the 20th June 1947?

Answer 3

• The Western allies introduced a new currency behind the Soviet Union’s back
• The currency was called Deutschmark

Question 4

How did the Soviets respond?

Answer 4

• Four days later, they introduced a new currency, the Ostmark

Question 5

What was West Berlin totally dependent on?

Answer 5

• Rail and road links running through the Soviet-controlled zone for its supplies and food from Western Germany

Question 6

When did the Berlin blockade start?

Answer 6

• 1948

Question 7

What did the Soviets cut off during the blockade?

Answer 7

• Electricity
• Road/rail links to the west

Question 8

What was the Western response to the blockade?

Answer 8

• Airlift over the 3 ‘corridors’ allocated to them by the Soviets

Question 9

What was the average amount of supplies that the West was able to fly in a day?

Answer 9

• 2000 tones of food and raw materials

Question 10

What talk followed the Berlin blockade?

Answer 10

• The Moscow talk (1949)

Question 11

What measures did the West take to damage the Soviet zone in Germany?

Answer 11

• Stopped all Western exports to the Soviet zone, increasing the pressure on the zone’s economy

Question 12

What was the daily average tonnage by January?

Answer 12

• 5620

Question 13

What was the daily average tonnage by April?

Answer 13

• 8,000 tons

Question 14

When was the blockade lifted?

Answer 14

• 12th May 1949

Question 15

Why was the blockade lifted?

Answer 15

• Stalin couldn’t afford to go to war over Berlin
• The lack of trade with the West was crippling his economy (lol)

Question 16

What were the newly formed sides of Germany following the blockade?

Answer 16

• FRG (Federal Republic of Germany)
• GDR (General Democratic Republic)

Question 17

When was the West German constitution approved?

Answer 17

• Spring of 1949

Question 18

Who was the first West German Chancellor?

Answer 18

• Konrad Adenauer

Question 19

When was the European Coal and Steel Community established?

Answer 19

• July 1952

Question 20

Why was the ECSC established?

Answer 20

• To enable the Western to exploit Germany’s coal and steel resources for their own rearmament programmes without running the risk of creating a strong independent West Germany

Question 21

How did the superpowers react?

Answer 21

• The West German chancellor received the news enthusiastically
• Italy and Benelux states also welcomed it
• Britain refused to join

Question 22

What was the impact of the ESCS?

Answer 22

• Together with the formation of NATO, it strengthened the Western Bloc

Question 23

What did the ESCS regulate?

Answer 23

• Coal and steel industries in Italy, the FRG, France and the Benelux countries, guaranteeing that the economic needs of each member for these vital raw materials would be met

Question 24

When was cominform formed?

Answer 24

• 1947

Question 25

Why was cominform established?

Answer 25

• To promote ideological unity among the Communist parties in Europe
• Its main task was to complete Sovietisation of the Soviet satellite states, co-ordinate activities of the communist parties and to combat Titoism

Question 26

When was Comecon formed?

Answer 26

• 1949

Question 27

What was COMECON’s main task?

Answer 27

• To integrate the economies of Eastern Europe with the USSR’s
• Collectivize agriculture
• Establish centralised economies
• Five Year Plan