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Cold war Unit One
What did COMECON rival?
What was the purpose of Cominform?
Cold war Unit One
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What was the purpose of Cominform?
To combat NATO
To strengthen ties between communist countries.
None of the answers.
To contain capitalism
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What did COMECON rival?
Marshall Aid
NATO
All of the answers
Truman Doctrine
3
Who were the superpowers that emerged afterWW2?
France and US
USSR and US
Britain and the US
USSR and France
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Why did Stalin start the Berlin Blockade?
The Trizonia had introduced a new currency
He wanted all of Berlin under Soviet control
All of the answers
He didn't want capitalism in his soviet sphere of Germany
5
What did Stalin do to Berlin in the Blockade?
B and C
Built a wall dividing East and West
Blocked all transport routes to West Berlin
Attempted to starve West Berlin to submission
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What is NOT a feature of capitalism?
Social Objective is Freedom
Businesses belong to the state
Democracy with elected leaders
Free Market Economy
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When was the Yalta Conference
July 1944
Feb 1943
July 1945
Feb 1945
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How much money in Marshall Aid did the USA give to Europe?
$7billion
$27billion
$17billion
$37billion
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What was the main objective of the Truman Doctrine?
Promote Capitalism
End Communism
Defeat the USSR
Containment of Communism
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What year was the Berlin Blockade?
1848
1948
1949
1947
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Which of the following altered relations at Potsdam?
The USA had successfully tested an atomic bomb
All of the answers
They no longer had a common enemy
Truman became president of the USA
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Concern over which TWO countries inspired the Truman Doctrine?
Greece and Czechoslovakia
Greece and Eastern Berlin
Greece and Turkey
Greece and Serbia
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What was the allied response to the BB?
Arms race
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Truman Doctrine
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Which of the following are key features of communism?
Social objective is freedom
Dictatorship with no free elections
All of the answers
Government planned economy
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Which country did not become a satellite state after WW2?
Greece
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
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What did the USA demand of Japan to stop the war?
Unconditional Surrender
Surrender
An apology for pearl harbour
Reparations
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Which of the following was did NOT occur at Yalta?
Disagreements about reparations.
Germany and Berlin would be divided into four zones.
Free elections would be guaranteed throughout Eastern Europe
The UN would be formed and joined by all
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What is a satellite state?
A country conquered by the USSR
A space station
A government in a country that is closely controlled by USA
A government in a country that is closely controlled by USSR
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Where was the first atomic bomb dropped on the 6th August?
Pearl Harbour
Berlin
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
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What action that Stalin took before Potsdam made him seem untrustworthy?
He wanted large reparations.
He had arrested non communist leaders
He didn't lie Truman
He was communist
