PART A QUESTIONS
1. What was the ‘Cold War’?
2. What was the Yalta Conference?
3. What was agreed at the Yalta Conference in 1945?
4. What was agreed at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?
5. Describe how Poland and Czechoslovakia became communist after 1945.
6. What was the ‘Iron Curtain’?
7. What was the ‘Truman Doctrine’?
8. What was the purpose of the ‘Truman Doctrine’?
9. What was ‘Marshall Aid’?
10. Describe the events of the Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949?
11. What was the ‘Berlin Airlift’?
12. What was ‘NATO’?
Part B Questions
1. Why did the wartime unity of the Allies break down in the period 1945-1947?
2. Why did the tension between the Soviet Union and the West increase after the Potsdam Conference?
3. Why were Western governments suspicious of the USSR in the period 1945 -1948?
4. Why was Eastern Europe largely in the hands of the USSR by 1946?
5. Why was the Truman Doctrine introduced?
6. Why did the USA adopt a policy of Containment?
7. Why was Marshall Aid offered to countries in Europe?
8. Why was Berlin a cause of tension between East and West after World War II? /
Why was there continuing tension over Berlin in the years 1945-1949?
9. Why did the USSR blockade Berlin?
10. Why did the Berlin Blockade fail?
Part C Questions
1. How successful was the West in containing communism in Europe up to 1949? Explain your answer.
2. ‘The attitudes of Churchill and Truman not Stalin caused the Cold War’. How far do you agree with this statement?
3. ‘It was Truman not Stalin who brought about the Cold War’. How far do you agree with this statement?
4. ‘The Soviet Union was to blame for the Cold War’. How far do you agree with this statement?
5. ‘Only Stalin of the Allies achieved what he wanted as a result of the war with Germany’? Do you agree?
6. ‘The Berlin Blockade brought Europe close to war’. How far do you agree with this statement?
