START OF COLD WAR 1945-53

Question 1

Fulton ‘iron curtain’ speech

Churchill

Answer 1

March 1946

Question 2

Bizonia

Answer 2

Jan 1947

Question 3

Potsdam conference

Answer 3

Aug 1945

Question 4

Yalta Conference

Answer 4

Feb 1945

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

COMINFORM (against Marshall Aid)

4 days after walking out Paris Peace Conference

Answer 6

September 1947

Question 7

Blue paper

Answer 7

1947

Question 8

Kennan Long Telegraph

Answer 8

February 1946

Question 9

Warsaw Pact

Reaction to west Germany joining NATO

Answer 9

1955

Question 10

NATO
USSR atom bomb
FDR(West) and GDR (East) Germany

Answer 10

1949

Question 11

Korea war

Answer 11

1950-53

Question 12

Death of Stalin

Answer 12

1953

Question 13

Berlin Blockade

Answer 13

1948-49

Question 14

Deutschmark created

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

NSC68

Answer 15

Harry Truman to support a massive build-up of both conventional and nuclear arms $13bn - $50bn

Question 16

NSC 30

Answer 16

Allowed atomic weapons in military planning to protect national security

Question 17

Eisenhower

+ Dulles new look ‘roll back’

Answer 17

1952

Question 18

COMECON

China communist PRC

Answer 18

1949

Question 19

Soviet friendship treaty

• Mao given $300m trade credits with interest over 5 years
• atomic

Answer 19

1950

Question 20

Sanfransisco treaty

Japan and U.S. Peace

Answer 20

1951

Question 21

Truman

Answer 21

1945-53