Origins Of Cold War

Question 1

What year did Iron curtain speech take place?

Answer 1

1946

Question 2

What year was the long and novikov telegrams

Answer 2

1946

Question 3

What year was the truman doctrine?

Answer 3

1947

Question 4

What year was the marshall plan?

Answer 4

1947

Question 5

What year was the cominform?

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

What year was the berlin blockade?

Answer 6

1948-9

Question 7

What year did nato form?

Answer 7

1949

Question 8

What year was comecon?

Answer 8

1949

Question 9

What was the cominform?

Answer 9

‘Communist information bureau’ cominform was the aim to control communist parties and ensure loyalty of eastern european goverments removed ‘disloyal’ members which cause the power of the ussr to be consilidated by stamping out opposition,sometimes with violence.

Question 10

What is comecon?

Answer 10

Council for mutual economic assistance to encourage economic development of eastern europe which cause the political and economic division in europe - stalins answer to the marshall plan .

Question 11

What was the berlin blockade?

Answer 11

Stalin blocked all supplies from getting to west berlin to show that a divided Germany could not work and to force the west to pull out. This didn’t work though and stalin was forced to lift the blockade as the western powers introduced the ‘airlift’.

Question 12

What was ‘NATO’.

Answer 12

Western countrys set up ‘NATO’ to counter the soviet millitary threat. This was a defence alliance.

Question 13

What was the ‘warsaw pact’?

Answer 13

The ussr and its neighbours set up the ‘warsaw pact’ to counter the millitary threat from ‘NATO’

Question 14

What was the marshall plane?

Answer 14

the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

Question 15

What was the truman doctrine?

Answer 15

United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Question 16

What was the ‘the novikov telegram’?

Answer 16

The Soviet response to The Long Telegram was The Novikov Telegram, in which the Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination. As a result, the USSR needed to secure its buffer zone. in Eastern Europe.

Question 17

What was the ‘long telegram’?

Answer 17

The American State Department had to be alerted by a Moscow-based official of the Soviets’ activities. In much fewer than 8,000 words, what Kennan’s telegram said was that the USSR. was heavily armed and feared the outside world.

Question 18

What was the iron curtain speech?

Answer 18

Iron Curtain speech, speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill (took place in missouri),he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism.