Origins Of The Cold War

Question 1

When was the grand alliance formed

Answer 1

1941

Question 2

When was the Tehran conference

Answer 2

1943

Question 3

When were the Yalta and Potsdam conferencesl

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

The USA explodes first atomic bombs

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

Churchill makes iron curtain speech

Answer 5

1946

Question 6

Kennan’s long telegram

Answer 6

1946

Question 7

Truman doctrine and Marshall plan launched

Answer 7

1947

Question 8

Setting up cominform

Answer 8

1947

Question 9

Beginning of Berlin blockade

Answer 9

1948

Question 10

Setting up of Comecon

Answer 10

1949

Question 11

End of Berlin blockade

Answer 11

1949

Question 12

Formation of federal republic of Germany

Answer 12

1945

Question 13

Formation of German Democratic Republic

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

Formation of North Atlantic treaty organisation

Answer 14

1949

Question 15

Setting up of Warsaw Pact

Answer 15

1955

Question 16

Franklin d Roosevelt

Answer 16

President of USA until 1945

Question 17

Joseph Stalin

Answer 17

Leader of USSR until 1953

Question 18

Harry S Truman

Answer 18

President of USA from 1945 - 1953

Question 19

Winston Churchill

Answer 19

Prime Minister of UK from 1940 - 1945 and 1951 - 1955

Question 20

Clement Attle

Answer 20

Prime Minister of UK from 1945 - 1951

Question 21

George F Kennan

Answer 21

US ambassador to USSR

Question 22

Nikolai Novikov

Answer 22

Soviet Ambassador to the USA

Question 23

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 23

Leader of USSR from 1953 - 1964

Question 24

Bolshevik

Answer 24

Member of the Russian Bolshevik party

Question 25

Communism

Answer 25

Ideology followed by the USSR. Believed all property should be shared among the people. State control of industry

Question 26

Capitalism

Answer 26

Ideology followed by the USA. Believed individuals should be able to become privately wealthy. Private ownership of industry

Question 27

Free trade

Answer 27

All countries free to trade with each other without barriers

Question 28

Comecon

Answer 28

Organisation coordinating economies of Soviet satellite states

Question 29

Cominform

Answer 29

Organisation to exchange information between Soviet satellite states

Question 30

Containment

Answer 30

US policy of opposing expansion of Communism into non - communist countries

Question 31

Coup

Answer 31

A sudden seizure of power from a government

Question 32

De Stalinisation

Answer 32

Elimination of the influence of Stalin

Question 33

H bomb

Answer 33

A hydrogen bomb. An explosive weapon of enormous destructive power

Question 34

Marshall Aid

Answer 34

US program of economic assistant to Europe after WW2

Question 35

Marshall Plan

Answer 35

System of loans from the USA to European countries to help recovery from WW2

Question 36

NATO

Answer 36

Military defence organisation for Western nations

Question 37

Red Army

Answer 37

The Soviet Army

Question 38

Satellite States

Answer 38

A country under the domination of a foreign power

Question 39

Sphere of influence

Answer 39

Area of the world where one state is dominant

Question 40

Superpower

Answer 40

A county has greater influence than most over global events

Question 41

Truman doctrine

Answer 41

President Truman’s idea that it was America’s duty to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world.

Question 42

United Nations

Answer 42

International body set up in 1945 to promote peace and global cooperation

Question 43

Warsaw Pact

Answer 43

A military association between Soviet Union and satellite states