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Cold War Quiz - Cold War in Europe
Cold War Quiz - Cold War in Europe
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Mix of questions from throughout the Cold War in Europe section of CCEA GCSE Course
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1
Which of these is NOT a feature of capitalism?
Free elections
Companies operated for profit
One party state
Private individuals own businesses
2
Which of these countries fell first to the USSR as it created its buffer zone?
Hungary
Romania
Albania
Poland
3
Which of these leaders was NOT at Yalta?
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Josef Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
4
What year was the Berlin wall built?
1961
1968
1956
1948
5
Which of these countries was NOT in the Warsaw Pact?
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Albania
Poland
6
When was the Potsdam conference?
July of 1946
February of 1945
June of 1945
July of 1943
7
Who was the new guiding principle of US foreign policy named after?
James Monroe
George Marshall
Harry Truman
Abraham Lincoln
8
Which of these countries was NOT in NATO?
Portugal
Belgium
France
Romania
9
Which person REPLACED the other as leader of Czechoslovakia?
Dubeck
Novotny
10
What message did Eisenhower send to the Hungarian people?
"I feel for the Hungarian People"
"We are with you to the end"
"We will fight communism anywhere and everywhere"
"Today, we are all Hungarians"
11
Which of these was NOT a reform Dubcek tried to bring in?
Leaving Warsaw Pact
Trade with the West
Abolishing Censorship
Travel to the West
12
Which conference came first?
Yalta
Potsdam
13
How long did the Airlift/Blockade last?
18 months
6 months
Two Years
11 months
14
How long was the Berlin Wall?
80km
450km
750km
155km
15
How many Warsaw Pact Troops invaded Czechoslovakia?
18,000
1.4 million
250,000
400,000
16
In what year did Khruschev give the Secret Speech?
1961
1949
1953
1956
17
What was the name given to the Telegram sent by the USSR diplomat?
The Ribbentrop Telegram
The Novichok Telegram
The Molotov Telegram
The Novikov Telegram
18
How many East Germans fled via West Berlin?
3.5 million
800,000
10 million
1.2 million
19
How many times was the Soviet Union invaded between 1900 and 1945?
Three
Two
One
20
How many years BEFORE the Secret Speech did Stalin die?
3
4
1
2
21
How many Hungarians were killed in the 1956 uprising?
10,000
30,000
40,000
1500
22
Which of these countries did NOT fall to communism after the Second World War?
Turkey
Poland
Albania
Hungary
23
Which of these summits came first?
Paris
Geneva
Vienna
Camp David
24
In the context of the Cold War, what does the acronym MAD stand for?
Must Act Dumb
Many Assumed Dead
Mutually Assured Destruction
Major Allied Doctrine
25
What was the Acronym of the Hungarian secret police?
NKVD
AVH
StB
KGG
26
Which of these people was NOT a political leader in Hungary?
Alexander Dubcek
Matyas Rakosi
Janos Kadar
Imre Nagy
27
When did Churchill give his Iron Curtain speech?
5th March 1946
6th September 1945
12th December 1945
May 4th 1947
28
What was the name of the Project which birthed the Atom Bomb?
Brooklyn
Barbarossa
Manhattan
Fat Man
29
How much financial aid was recommended for the Marshall Plan?
€11 billion
$110 Million
$12,000,000,000
$20 billion
30
Where is the Brandenburg Gate?
West Berlin
Budapest
Prague
Moscow
31
What was the name given to the Telegram sent by US diplomat George Kennan?
The Red Telegram
The Long Telegram
The Iron Telegram
The Short Telegram
32
How many people were killed by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
1.5 million
240,000
80,000
140,000
33
At its peak, how many tons of supplies were flown in to Berlin per day during the Airlift?
1500
12,000
9000
18,000
34
Which president came first?
Nixon
JFK
LBJ
Eisenhower
35
Which of these summits came last?
Paris
Camp David
Vienna
Geneva
36
Which country received the most Marshall Aid?
West Germany
France
East Germany
Britain
