Origins Of Cold War

Question 1

Germany defeated

Answer 1

May 1945

Question 2

Potsdam conference

Answer 2

July 1945

Question 3

Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Answer 3

August 1945

Question 4

Iron Curtain speech

Answer 4

1946

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

Marshall plan announced

Answer 6

June 1947

Question 7

Cominform set up by Stalin

Answer 7

1947

Question 8

Comecon

Answer 8

1949

Question 9

Communist takeover of Czechslovakia

Answer 9

Feb 1948

Question 10

Yugoslavia expelled from Cominfrom

Answer 10

1948

Question 11

Berlin blockade

Answer 11

June 1948 - May 1949

Question 12

Formation of NATO

Answer 12

April 1949

Question 13

Korean war

Answer 13

1950 - 1953

Question 14

The ‘Thaw’

Answer 14

1953-56

Question 15

Warsaw Pact

Answer 15

May 1955

Question 16

Who attended Yalta

Answer 16

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill

Question 17

Who attended Potsdam

Answer 17

Stalin, Truman, Attlee

Question 18

How much did USA give to Europe to aid its recovery (Marshall Plan)

Answer 18

$17 billion

Question 19

How much did Congress grant to help Greece

Answer 19

$400 million

Question 20

When did GB and USA set up a mew currency in West Germany

Answer 20

1948

Question 21

How far was Berlin into the Soviet zone?

Answer 21

160km in

Question 22

How many tonnes of supplies needed to be brought in ever day during berlin airlift

Answer 22

4,000 tonnes

Question 23

How many US and GB pilots lost lives in airlift?

Answer 23

79

Question 24

How many killed in korean war or made homeless

Answer 24

4 million soldiers and civilians killed

5 million made homeless

Question 25

Yalta Conference

Answer 25

Feb 1945