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Orgins of the Cold War - Mr Divall
Orgins of the Cold War - Mr Divall
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What did Marshall & Kennan conclude in late 1948?
Stalin did not pay his bills at Potsdam
Churchill was right
that a Cold War had indeed broken out
USSR not ready to strike using military or to reach a settle
2
In what year did WA Williams write, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy?
1959?
1960
1962?
1961
3
In March 1948 who said “War could break out with dramatic suddenness”?
Truman
General Clay
Stalin
Molotov
4
What did Georges Bidault say about the USSR's rejection of Marshall Aid?
gave no official comment
agreed with Stalin
he was unsurprised it was rejected
he was mystified why it was not accepted
5
Who apparently 'fell' from a window in Czechoslovakia in 1948?
Jan Masayrk
Gottwald
Beria
Novikov
6
What did the western Allies agree?
Stalin to return all territory to the people of those lands
to open a second front to ease the pressure on Russia
to use the A-bomb on Japan
plans for D-Day agreed
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Who believed that in 1948 that the USA was in the strongest position?
Byrnes
Dulles
Kennan
Truman
8
What did Churchill famously give in 1946?
his Fulton speech
the Atlanta Compromise speech
the iron curtain speech
the declaration of liberated Europe speech
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What was formed in April 1949?
Warsaw Pact
NATO
COMINFORM
UN
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What did it decide?
empires not to grow & self-determ, social & eco improvement
to split Germany
to end 'want' in war torn Europe & Asia after the war
to start a Cold War
11
Who said “War is barbaric, but using the A-bomb is superbarbarity.”?
FDR
Atlee
Truman
Stalin
12
Who said “Stalin has broken every one of the promises he made at Yalta.” 2 weeks before he died
Theodore Roosevelt
Lenin
FD Roosevelt
Churchill
13
The year the Atlantic Charter was signed?
1941
1942
1944
1950
14
Which conference was it agreed Russia was allowed to take reparations from the Soviet Zone?
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
Cassablanca
15
What did the USSR form in reaction?
COMINFORM (Communist Information Bureau)
Warsaw Pact
Novikov Plan
COMECON
16
In 1947 who said Europe must unite economically to take adventag of mass production techniques?
John Foster Dulles
Robert Byrnes
Ernest Bevan
George C Marshall
17
In 1947 Truman replaced Sec of State James Byrnes (saw him as soft to USSR) with Marshall. Yes?
No
Yes
Unsure
Incorrect
18
What was agreed at Tehran in 1943?
France to deserve reparations
post-war eastern Europe to be a Soviet zone of influence
Hitler to be executed when captured
Soviet Union to invade Japan
19
When did FDR die?
May 1945
December 1943
January 1945
April 1945
20
“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty" Who?
Byrnes
Truman
Dulles
Marshall
21
At which conference was the Declaration of Liberated Europe agreed upon?
Yalta
Moscow
Potsdam
Tehran
22
Who linked financial aid to Europe with the need to defeat communism?
James Byrnes
George C. Marshall
Harry Truman
Dean Acheson
23
What sparked the Berlin Blockade
currency reform on 23 June in the allied zones
currency reform on 25 June in the allied zones
currency reform on 24 June in the allied zones
currency reform on 22 June in the allied zones
24
Whose doctrine was detailed to Congress in March 1947?
Marshall
Eisenhower
Truman
JFK
25
On what date did the USA enter WWII?
7 Dec 1941
1 Jan 1942
7 June 1941
8 Dec 1941
26
How long was the Berlin Blockade?
324 days
624 days
318 days
183 days
27
When was the Yalta Conference?
July-August 1945
October 1945
February 1945
March 1946
28
What did Novikov say about the Marshall Plan?
Stalin would go nuts when he heard about it
a way of planting US spies in Eastern Europe
A great idea
as an attempt to create a bloc against the USSR
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Who said that the USSR painted the outside world as hostile to legitimise its dictatorship?
Feiss
Bailey
Kennan
Gaddis
30
Where is Yalta?
Trans-caucuses, USSR
Crimea, USSR
near Istanbul, Turkey
Armenia