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Edexcel history Cold War: Unit 1
Edexcel history Cold War: Unit 1
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1
When was the conference at Potsdam?
June 1945
June 1946
July 1945
August 1945
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Who was not present at the Potsdam Conference
Attlee
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
3
When was the Tehran conference
1940
1941
1942
1943
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What is the Capital of Hungary?
Budapest
Belmislava
Bratislava
Bucharest
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Who is this?
Dwight Eisenhower
George Marshall
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
6
Which is the correct spelling?
Krushchev
Khrushev
Khruschev
Khrushchev
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Who became Prime Minister after the uprising?
Janos Kadar
Imre Nagy
Jan Masyrak
Maggie Thatcher
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When was the Yalta Conference?
Feb 1945
Dec 1944
Apr 1945
Mar 1945
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How long did the Berlin blockade last?
6 months
11 months
3 months
12 months
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What was the name of the air operation to keep Berlin supplied during the Berlin blockade?
Operation Grub
Operation Rations
Operation Vittles
Operation Gumdrop
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Which countries started NATO?
All of the above
UK
USA
Belgium
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What did the UN do about the Hungarian revolution?
Nothing
Evacuated Nagy when Khrushchev sent in tanks
Deployed UN forces to fight the Russians
Provided a small sum of money to Nagy's government
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What did Comecon do?
Create anti-American propaganda
Coordinate communist parties in different countries
Discuss their favourite comics
Give aid to Eastern Europe
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What was Rakosi's nickname?
The Bald Butcher
The Bad Butcher
The Bald Bankrupter
Stalin's best pupil
15
Where did Winston Churchill deliver his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech?
Washington DC
New York
London
Missouri
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The USSR pledged which of the following at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945?
to open a second front in the war by invading France
to foster communism in nations taken from Germany
to disarm as quickly as possible once the war ended
to attack Japan within three months of German surrender
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What year did Stalin die?
1935
1912
1953
1954
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What was cominform?
All of the above
Set up to oppose NATO
The Communist Information Bureau
Gave Stalin control over communist countries
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Where is Potsdam?
Germany
Russia
Potsdamlandia
Belgium
20
What was the Capital of West Germany?
Bonn
Köln
Dortmund
Berlin
21
How many Soviet tanks invaded Hungary?
2,000
3,000
5,000
1,000
22
Where did the United States drop the second atomic bomb?
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Hiroshima
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NATO and the Warsaw PACT were examples of?
Military aggression during the Cold War
Military alliances made for "collective security"
Efforts to fight communism without bloodshed
Failed attempts to make peace
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The Warsaw Pact was formed in...
1955
1947
1945
1950
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When was NATO established?
1945
1949
1959
1955
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Consequences of the Hungarian uprising
the people of Hungary revolted against Nagy
kruschev let nagy leave communism
Soviet tanks invaded Hungary and thousands were killed
Nagy was replaced with a more compliant soviet leader
27
The Truman Doctrine was originally designed to -
contain Communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey
use United Nations to eliminate threats posed by Soviets
stop the use of nuclear weapons
rebuild Korea by extending economic aid
28
How many air corridors did the allies use to fly supplies to West Berlin?
5
3
4
2
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What were the Long and Novikov telegrams?
Orders to take over non-Communist countries
Orders to declare war
Discussion about what to do with Germany
Letters telling the USSR and USA not to trust each other
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When was the Hungarian Uprising?
1957
1958
1955
1956
