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The Cold War: Origins
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A #history quiz for #year11 and 12 revision
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1
Which of the Yalta conference plans was
NOT
fully achieved?
To allow free elections in conquered countries
To establish a United Nations
To press Germany for unconditional surrender
To hold war crimes trials
2
How did the U.S. put the policy of containment into action?
Building the Berlin Wall
Funding through the Marshall Plan
Funding through the Warsaw Pact
Preventing communists from joining the U.N.
3
What special right did
The Big Five
give themselves when they designed the United Nations?
To choose who becomes the Secretary-General of the U.N.
To pay a reduced annual U.N. membership fee
To veto any proposed decision of the Security Council
To invade any country that threatened world peace
4
Who said the Russians would use 'underground methods' to destroy western ways of life?
George Kennan
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
5
Which countries combined to design the United Nations in 1945?
France, the UK & the USA
France, the UK, the USA, China & Russia
France, the UK, the USA & Australia
France, Britain, USA & Russia
6
Which of the following countries was
NOT
a member of the
Eastern bloc (Warsaw Pact)
?
Poland
East Germany
Lithuania
Austria
7
What anti-communist policy did the Truman Doctrine establish?
Reds under the Beds
democratisation
containment
blockades
8
After 'Little Boy' was unleashed on Hiroshima, where was 'Fat Man' dropped?
Hiroshima
Berlin
Nagasaki
Tokyo
9
According to the Warsaw Pact treaty, what recent events 'increases the threat of another war'?
The Berlin Airlift
West Germany joining NATO
Nuclear weapons proliferating
Establishing the United Nations
10
According to Winston Churchill in March 1946, what had descended across the Continent?
The mist of ignorance
An iron curtain
A barbed wire barrier
The fog of communism
11
The Potsdam Conference of August 1945 decided to
denazify
Germany,
disarm
,
decartelise
and ...
disinfect
demobilise
democratise
demean
12
NATO & Warsaw Pact both mention their right under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. What is it?
Right to individual or collective self-defence
Right to justice for war crimes
Right to independence and self-determination
Right to veto Security Council decisions
13
Who said communism was 'a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization'?
Harry Truman
Josef Stalin
George Kennan
Winston Churchill
14
Who surrendered in May 1945?
France
The Soviet Union
Imperial Japan
Nazi Germany
15
What were the first countries to receive U.S. support under the
Truman Doctrine
?
Australia and New Zealand
Turkey and Poland
Greece and West Germany
Greece and Turkey
16
At the Yalta conference in February 1945, who were
The Big Three
?
Hitler, Stalin and Truman
Little Boy, Fat Man and Castle Bravo
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
Churchill, Stalin and Truman
17
At the Yalta conference in February 1945, which of the following was
NOT
part of the plan?
To build a wall between East and West Berlin
To press Germany for unconditional surrender
To split Germany into sections
To establish a United Nations
18
Which of the following countries was
NOT
a member of the
Western bloc (NATO)
?
Romania
The Netherlands
Italy
Iceland
19
At what point would NATO and Warsaw Pact members finish any act of self-defence?
When the UN orders them to stop
This is not addressed by the treaties
When the attackers are defeated
When the UN Security Council acts to restore peace
20
Why
did the Soviets blockade supply routes to Berlin in 1948?
No-one knows
The U.S. and U.K. introduced a new currency into West Berlin
To gain control of the supply of food in the city
They wanted to claim all of Berlin as a Soviet zone
