The Cold War Begins

Question 0

When was the Tehran conference ?

Answer 0

1943

Question 1

When did trade resume between the USA and USSR?

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

What was the Grand Alliance ?

Answer 2

The wartime alliance of the UK, USSR and USA

Question 3

When was the Yalta conference?

Answer 3

February 1945

Question 4

Where would the USSR have a sphere of influence ???

Answer 4

Eastern Europe

Question 5

What was established at Yalta ?

Answer 5

The UN

Question 6

What was signed at Yalta?

Answer 6

Declaration on Liberated Europe

Question 7

Which conference was attended in July 1945?

Answer 7

Potsdam

Question 8

Which leaders changed while at the conference?

Answer 8

Churchill had lost the general election to Atlee

Question 9

What concerns were raised?

Answer 9

USSR taking reparations.

Question 10

What did they agree??

Answer 10

German de nazifacation.

German disarment

Question 11

Where was the USAs sphere of influence?

Answer 11

Western hemisphere, and some East Asia

Question 12

Why did tensions grow???

Answer 12

Truman was an anti-communist.

Question 13

What did the Kennan telegram say.

Answer 13

That the USSR wanted to spread its power.

Question 14

When was the USSR meant to withdraw from Iran ?

Answer 14

March 1946

Question 15

When was churchills iron curtain speech ?

Answer 15

March 1946

Question 16

What was the Marshall plan

Answer 16

Idea to revise Capatalism through free market, and US investment.

Question 17

How much aid did Marshall plan offer ?

Answer 17

13 billion dollars

Question 18

What was the Truman Doctrine??

Answer 18

That the USA would fight communism everywhere

Question 19

How did Truman see the world?

Answer 19

Views were Black and White

Question 20

Why did the USSR feel threatened ?

Answer 20

They could not offer the same as Marshall Aid

Question 21

Which country became communist in 1945 ?

Answer 21

Romania

Question 22

Why did Stalin tighten his grip over Eastern Europe.

Answer 22

Marshall Aid

Question 23

Which country became communist in 1947 ?

Answer 23

Hungary

Question 24

In 1948 what happened in Czechoslovakia?

Answer 24

Communist coup

Question 25

How was Germany divided ?

Answer 25

4 zones, for the USA, USSR, UK, France. | Berlin was split the same way.

Question 26

In 1947 what was created in Germany ?

Answer 26

Trizonia is between western zones.

Question 27

Why did Stalin do in 1948?

Answer 27

Berlin Blockade

Question 28

In 324 days how many tonnes of supplies went into West Berlin ?

Answer 28

13,000

Question 29

What happened due to the blockade and airlift?

Answer 29

Creation of West and East Germany

Question 30

What was NSC-68?

Answer 30

National security council 68, which wanted more defence spending to combat communism, and advocated containment.

Question 31

Who controlled Korea before 1945?

Answer 31

Japan

Question 32

Who ruled North Korea ?

Answer 32

Kim Il Sung

Question 33

Who ruled South Korea ?

Answer 33

Syngman Rhee

Question 34

When did North Korea invade the south ?

Answer 34

June 25 1950

Question 35

Why was the Korean War a success for the US ?

Answer 35

Contained communism, and had a reason to increase defence spending.

Question 36

What do orthodox historians believe about the start of the Cold War ?

Answer 36

USSR started the war.

Question 37

What did the USA think that the USSR was promoting?

Answer 37

World revolution.

Question 38

Which communist parties ran destabilisation campagins.

Answer 38

French and Italian

Question 39

What was the end of war goal for the USA ?

Answer 39

To have free markets for American goods.

Question 40

Why was the US in a position to shape the world?

Answer 40

Light war losses. Only 0.9% of population. Nuclear monoply. Untouched homeland.

Question 41

What is the Revisonist point of view?

Answer 41

That American capitalist aims started the Cold War.

Question 42

What is a strength of the view that ideologies started the Cold War.

Answer 42

Differences went back to 1917. | Forgiven affairs seen in ideological terms.

Question 43

What is a weakness of the view that ideologies started the Cold War?

Answer 43

Underestimate the leaders. | Underestimate the misinterpretation.

Question 44

What drove soviet affiars. ?

Answer 44

Traditional Russian insecurity.

Question 45

How were the Soviet and Tsarist objectives the same?

Answer 45

Want we to dominate Eastern Europe, for security.

Question 46

2 examples of American interventionism?

Answer 46

The two world wars.

Question 47

Why did the world change for the Cold War.

Answer 47

Multipolar system of pre war world changed, as the European powers, and Japan had expended their power fighting each other.

Question 48

What was the new world system.

Answer 48

Bi-polar.

Question 49

Name a reason why FDR was naive at Yalta?

Answer 49

Are many concessions. Duped by Stalin. Wrote of Eastern Europe.

Question 50

Why was FDR shrewd at Yalta?

Answer 50

Realised the position of the soviets. Flexible over Poland. Made sure the USSR entered the pacific war.m

Question 51

What was the percentages agreement?

Answer 51

An agreement between Churchill and Stalin agreeing on influence in liberated Eastern Europe.

Question 52

Why was Stalin preoccupied on soviet security?

Answer 52

Previous invasions of Russia.

Question 53

Name a mistake of stalins. ?

Answer 53

Berlin blockade. | Korean War.

Question 54

What is the post revisonist view of the start of the Cold War ?

Answer 54

That it was a series of misjudgement on all sides that lead to the Cold War.

Question 55

What is a strength of the post revisionist view ?

Answer 55

Points out the complex nature of the Cold War