Paper 3: Origins and Development of the Cold War

Question 1

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 1

1939

Question 2

Atlantic Charter

Answer 2

1941

Question 3

Lend-Lease Agreement

Answer 3

1941

Question 4

Bretton Woods’ Conference

Answer 4

1944

Question 5

Percentages Agreement

Answer 5

1944

Question 6

Tehran Conference

Answer 6

1943

Question 7

Yalta Conference

Answer 7

Feb 1945

Question 8

Hitler’s suicide

Answer 8

May 1945

Question 9

Potsdam Conference

Answer 9

July 1945

Question 10

Trinity Test

Answer 10

16 July 1945

Question 11

Hiroshima

Answer 11

6 August 1945

Question 12

Nagasaki

Answer 12

9 August 1945

Question 13

UN Created

Answer 13

24 Oct 1945

Question 14

Long Telegram

Answer 14

Feb 1946

Question 15

Novikov Telegram

Answer 15

September 1946

Question 16

Iron Curtain Speech

Answer 16

5 March 1946

Question 17

What were the satellite states?

Answer 17

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania

Question 18

How was Bulgaria taken over?

Answer 18

15,000 political opponents killed

Question 19

How was Czechoslovakia taken over?

Answer 19

Masaryk defenestrated

Question 20

How was Hungary taken over?

Answer 20

Rakosi sets up AVH

Question 21

How was Poland taken over?

Answer 21

Bierut (trained in the USSR) wins 1947 elections

Question 22

Iran Crisis

Answer 22

1946

Question 23

Greek Civil War

Answer 23

1946-49

Question 24

Communist Party of France

Answer 24

PCF

Question 25

Communist Party of Italy

Answer 25

ICP

Question 26

Truman Doctrine

Answer 26

12 March 1947

Question 27

Marshall Speech

Answer 27

5 June 1947

Question 28

When was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 28

31 March 1948

Question 29

How much was the Marshall Plan

Answer 29

$17 billion

Question 30

Point 4 Program

Answer 30

1949

Question 31

Cominform

Answer 31

Oct 1947

Question 32

Comecon

Answer 32

Jan 1949

Question 33

Bizonia

Answer 33

1947

Question 34

Deutschmark

Answer 34

23 June 1948

Question 35

Trizone

Answer 35

May 1948

Question 36

Berlin Blockade

Answer 36

Jun 1948 - May 1949

Question 37

Berlin Airlift freq.

Answer 37

1 plane every 30 seconds

Question 38

Berlin Airlift supplies

Answer 38

3,475 tons per day

Question 39

NATO Forms

Answer 39

April 1949

Question 40

Trotsky

Answer 40

Stalin’s opponent who painted him as a madman and a traitor of true Marxism-Leninism

Question 41

Khlevniuk

Answer 41

Portrayed Stalin as a calculative and attentive leader who managed to transform the post-revolution chaos into what was recognised as Stalinism

Question 42

Letters of Molotov and Kaganovich

Answer 42

Stalin created the Soviet Union through careful planning, relying on a close circle of dedicated men and his fanatic secret police.

Question 43

Kotkin

Answer 43

Viewed Stalin as a highly intelligent and rational man who was strongly driven by an ideology so powerful that it could justify the deaths of millions.

Question 44

Traditional Historians

Answer 44

George Kennan: Stalin needed an enemy for domestic stability
Thomas Bailey: USSR hegemony and global domination
Herbert Feis: Communist world revolution

Question 45

Revisionist Historians

Answer 45

Williams: American response to the Cuban Revolution similar to that of empire building powers
Gabriel & Joyce Kolko: Dollar imperialism

Question 46

Post-Revisionist Historians

Answer 46

Gaddis: A mixture of fear, misunderstandings and overreactions

Question 47

Post-Cold War Historians

Answer 47

Gaddis: Reverted to orthodoxy after archives revealed
Leffler: Blamed Stalin’s personality, his authoritarian government and communism