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GCSE History - Origins of the Cold War 1
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1
During which conference did the USA complete a successful atomic bomb test?
Yalta
Potsdam
Tehran
2
When was the Yalta conference?
July of 1946
June of 1945
February of 1945
July of 1943
3
What was the name of the Project which birthed the Atom Bomb?
Barbarossa
Fat Man
Manhattan
Brooklyn
4
How many people were killed by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
140,000
80,000
1.5 million
240,000
5
Which of these adjectives does NOT match the US idea for a post-war Germany?
Capitalist
Autocratic
Militarised
Industrialised
6
Which communist country broke away from Cominform first?
Yugoslavia
Albania
Austria
Hungary
7
Which of these countries did NOT fall to communism after the Second World War?
Albania
Poland
Turkey
Hungary
8
Which of these IS a feature of communism in the USSR?
Free, democratic elections
Censorship
Free Speech
Supremacy of individual rights
9
Who was the new guiding principle of US foreign policy named after?
Abraham Lincoln
George Marshall
Harry Truman
James Monroe
10
Which country received the most Marshall Aid?
East Germany
Britain
France
West Germany
11
Which of these leaders was NOT at Potsdam?
Winston Churchill
FDR
Josef Stalin
Clement Attlee
12
Which of these is NOT a feature of capitalism?
Private individuals own businesses
Companies operated for profit
Free elections
One party state
13
What was the name given to the Telegram sent by US diplomat George Kennan?
The Iron Telegram
The Red Telegram
The Short Telegram
The Long Telegram
14
How many zones was it agreed Germany would be divided into?
4
2
8
3
15
What kind of curtain did Churchill proclaim lay across Europe?
Doily
Iron
Red
Bolshevik
16
When did Churchill give his Iron Curtain speech?
5th March 1946
12th December 1945
6th September 1945
May 4th 1947
17
Which of these countries could NOT receive Marshall aid?
East Germany
Italy
West Germany
France
18
Which conference came first?
Yalta
Potsdam
19
How much financial aid was recommended for the Marshall Plan?
€11 billion
$12,000,000,000
$110 Million
$20 billion
20
Which of these is the best estimate for TOTAL Russian losses in the Second World War?
8 million
12 million
6 million
20 million
21
What was the name given to the Telegram sent by the USSR diplomat?
The Molotov Telegram
The Novikov Telegram
The Novichok Telegram
The Ribbentrop Telegram
22
Which country provided a source of disagreement for the Allies at Yalta?
Japan
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Ukraine
23
Which of these countries fell first to the USSR as it created its buffer zone?
Albania
Romania
Hungary
Poland
24
Which two countries benefitted from Marshall aid first?
Turkey
France
Greece
Germany
25
Which of these leaders was NOT at Yalta?
Josef Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
