origins of the cold war people and events

Question 1

conference in February 1945

Answer 1

Yalta conference

Question 2

who was at the Yalta conference?

Answer 2

Churchill, Rooservelt, Stalin

Question 3

what month did the Germans surrender?

Answer 3

may

Question 4

what month did the Americans drop the atomic bomb and where?

Answer 4

August, Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 5

what conference was July 1945 and who was there?

Answer 5

Potsdam conference, Atlee, Stalin and Truman

Question 6

when did the Japanese surrender and when did the war end in Asia?

Answer 6

September 1945

Question 7

Who was the Soviet foreign minister at the end of the war?

Answer 7

Vyacheslav Molotov

Question 8

when was Molotov foreign minister?

Answer 8

1939-49 and 1954-57

Question 9

who was British Foreign Minister 1940-45?

Answer 9

Anthony Eden

Question 10

what was the polish government in exile in London?

Answer 10

Lublin government

Question 11

what agreement was made between Churchill and Stalin in Moscow?

Answer 11

1944 percentages agreement

Question 12

who replaced Churchill and when?

Answer 12

Atlee, 26 July 1945

Question 13

which one of the big three had little knowledge of international affairs?

Answer 13

Truman

Question 14

what Polish government was established in June?

Answer 14

Provisional Government of national unity

Question 15

what 2 parties in east Germany combined?

Answer 15

SPD - social democratic party and KPD - communist party of Germany

Question 16

what telegram was sent in February 1946?

Answer 16

Kennan’s Long Telegram was sent

Question 17

what speech was delivered by Churchill in march 1946?

Answer 17

iron curtain speech

Question 18

what month did communists win elections in Poland?

Answer 18

June communist dem bloc win Polish elections

Question 19

what percentage of communist vote was won in October and in what country?

Answer 19

75% in October

Question 20

what percentage of communist vote was won in November and in what country?

Answer 20

80% in November

Question 21

what east European political parties focused on representing the interests of farming communists?

Answer 21

Pro-agarian parties

Question 22

what was the polish peasant party called?

Answer 22

Stainslaw Mikolajezyk

Question 23

who was the polish deputy prime minister in 1946?

Answer 23

Wladyslaw Gomulka

Question 24

who replaced Gomulka?

Answer 24

Boleslaw Bierut

Question 25

policy that was used in Bulgaria

Answer 25

Gradualism

Question 26

who was Czech president

Answer 26

Edvard Benes

Question 27

who was Yugoslavian leader

Answer 27

Josip Broz Tito

Question 28

what year was the Paris Peace Conference?

Answer 28

1946

Question 29

who met at the Paris Peace Conference?

Answer 29

France, Soviet Union, UK, USA meant to draw up peace treaties for defeated European powers

Question 30

when were the Paris peace conference treaties signed?

Answer 30

Signed in 1947

Question 31

what doctrine was announced in march 1947?

Answer 31

Truman announces doctrine

Question 32

what did Stalin create in September 1947?

Answer 32

Cominform created

Question 33

who was Kennan?

Answer 33

Kennan was second ranking officer

Question 34

who was the soviet ambassador in Washington?

Answer 34

Nikolai Novikov

Question 35

who was soviet foreign minister?

Answer 35

Vyacheslav Molotov

Question 36

newspaper of the communist party?

Answer 36

pravda

Question 37

who crated the Cominform and Zhanov doctrine

Answer 37

Andrei Zhanov

Question 38

When was Bizonia created?

Answer 38

January 1947

Question 39

what month was the Marshall Plan created?

Answer 39

June

Question 40

who was secretary of state in the USA from 1949-53?

Answer 40

dean Acheson

Question 41

who was under-secretary of state?

Answer 41

William L. Clayton

Question 42

who was US army general?

Answer 42

George Marshall

Question 43

what was the real name of the Marshall Plan?

Answer 43

European recovery Programme

Question 44

how many members were there of the French communist party?

Answer 44

1.7 million

Question 45

what month did the communists gain control of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 45

June

Question 46

when was the new currency introduced in western zones?

Answer 46

February

Question 47

what was the new currency called?

Answer 47

Deuschmark

Question 48

what was the name of the council to coordinate actions between the zones?

Answer 48

Allied control council

Question 49

communist party in Germany

Answer 49

KPD

Question 50

German socialist democrats

Answer 50

SPD

Question 51

liberals

Answer 51

LDPD

Question 52

Christian deomocrats

Answer 52

CDU

Question 53

what was the SPD and KPD merged to form?

Answer 53

Soviet Military Administration of Germany (SMAD)

Question 54

when was the SMAD party created?

Answer 54

February 1946