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Cold War

Question 1 of 56

1

When was the Grand Alliance

Select one of the following:

  • 1941

  • 1940

  • 1943

  • 1939

Explanation

Question 2 of 56

1

What countries were part of the Grand Alliance?

Select one or more of the following:

  • USA

  • Soviet Union

  • France

  • Britain

Explanation

Question 3 of 56

1

When was the Teheran Conference

Select one of the following:

  • March 1943

  • July 1943

  • February 1943

  • November 1943

Explanation

Question 4 of 56

1

Who were the leaders at the Teheran Conference?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Churchill

  • Attlee

  • Truman

  • Stalin

  • Rooselvelt

  • Khrushchev

Explanation

Question 5 of 56

1

What was agreed at the Teheran Conference?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Set up United Nation

  • Divide Germany/Berlin into 4 zones

  • Second Front

  • Soviet Union will leave a sphere of influence

  • Soviet Union will help defeat Japan

  • Soviet Union will get 1/4 of all industrial goods

Explanation

Question 6 of 56

1

When was the Yalta Conference?

Select one of the following:

  • July 1945

  • March 1945

  • August 1945

  • February 1945

  • November 1945

Explanation

Question 7 of 56

1

What was agreed at the Yalta Conference?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Make Poland a "buffer zone"

  • Stalin should allow free election

  • Nazi war criminals to be punished

  • Get tough on Russia

  • Divide Germany into 4 zones

  • The 4 zones in Germany will be distributes to the USA, Soviet Union, Britain and France

  • United Nations will replace the League of Nations

Explanation

Question 8 of 56

1

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Select one of the following:

  • November 1945

  • July 1945

  • May 1945

  • March 1945

  • September 1945

Explanation

Question 9 of 56

1

Who were the leaders at the Potsdam Conference?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rooselvelt

  • Truman

  • Stalin

  • Khrushchev

  • Attlee

  • Churchill

Explanation

Question 10 of 56

1

What was agreed at the Potsdam Conference?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Make Germany smaller

  • Nazi Party to be dissolved

  • Set up UN

  • Soviet Union gets 1/4 of all of Germany's industrial goods

  • Germany will pay reparations of $20 million

  • Germany will pay reparations of $10 million

  • Truman wanted to get tough on Russia

  • Divide Nazi into 4 zones, to be distributed to Soviet Union, France, Britain and USA

Explanation

Question 11 of 56

1

When was Churchill's Iron Curtain speech?

Select one of the following:

  • March 1946

  • July 1946

  • March 1945

  • July 1945

Explanation

Question 12 of 56

1

The Iron Curtain Speech was : "an Iron Curtain has divided the continent"

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 13 of 56

1

Europe was divided into:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Communist Eastern Europe

  • Capitalist Eastern Europe

  • Capitalist Western Europe

  • Communist Western Europe

Explanation

Question 14 of 56

1

Why did Stalin take over Eastern Europe?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Wanted a buffer zone

  • Wanted more land

  • Wanted more supplies from these countries

  • Stalin didn't trust the West

  • Wanted to spread Communism

  • Wanted to spread Capitalism

  • Wanted compensation for 26 million Soviet Deaths

Explanation

Question 15 of 56

1

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Select one of the following:

  • March 1947

  • April 1947

  • July 1947

Explanation

Question 16 of 56

1

Why was there a Truman Doctrine?

Select one or more of the following:

  • America needed some more allies

  • Greek civil war

  • Advertise Capitalism

Explanation

Question 17 of 56

1

When was Marshall Plan

Select one or more of the following:

  • May 1947

  • March 1947

Explanation

Question 18 of 56

1

What did you have to join in order to gain Marshall Aid?

Select one or more of the following:

  • EOOC

  • OECE

  • OEEC

  • CEEO

  • CEOC

Explanation

Question 19 of 56

1

Marshall Aid was $13.75 billion for each country

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 56

1

How many countries accepted Marshall Aid?

Select one of the following:

  • 23

  • 3

  • 14

  • 16

  • 24

Explanation

Question 21 of 56

1

What was Cominform?

Select one of the following:

  • A second version of the Truman Doctrine

  • Stalin's version of the Truman Doctrine

  • A way of forming Communism

Explanation

Question 22 of 56

1

When was Comecon set up?

Select one of the following:

  • 1950

  • 1949

  • 1948

  • 1947

Explanation

Question 23 of 56

1

Why was there a crisis in Berlin

Select one or more of the following:

  • The creation of Trizonia by Britain, America and France

  • There was an Uprising

  • Soviet Union placed missiles on the Berlin coast

  • New currency called deutschmark

  • People were leaving East Germany to live in West Germany

  • People were leaving West Germany to live in East Germany

Explanation

Question 24 of 56

1

How long was the Berlin Blockade?

Select one of the following:

  • June 1948 - May 1949

  • June 1947 - May 1948

  • March 1948 - April 1949

  • June 1948 - July1949

Explanation

Question 25 of 56

1

How were supplies blocked in West Berlin?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Road

  • Canal

  • Ship

  • Rail

  • Air

Explanation

Question 26 of 56

1

How was the Berlin Blockade resolved?

Select one of the following:

  • Negotiation with Soviet Union through UN

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Giving money to Soviet Union

  • US sent 20,000 troops to the places were supplies were being blocked

Explanation

Question 27 of 56

1

How often were planes dropping supplies in West Berlin

Select one or more of the following:

  • Once a minute

  • Once every 2 minutes

  • Once every 3 minutes

  • Once every 4 minutes

  • Once every 5minutes

  • Once every 10 minutes

  • Once an hour

Explanation

Question 28 of 56

1

The Berlin Airlift Costed $224 million

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 56

1

What were the results of the Berlin Blockade?

Select one or more of the following:

  • West and East Germany were divided into two separate countries

  • USA and Britain became became bankrupt because of the Berlin Airlift costs

  • NATO set up

  • Stalin was sacked for the humiliation of the Berlin Airlift

Explanation

Question 30 of 56

1

When did Stalin die

Select one of the following:

  • 1951

  • 1952

  • 1954

  • 1953

Explanation

Question 31 of 56

1

Who replaced Stalin?

Select one of the following:

  • Khrushchev

  • Brezhnev

  • Gorbachev

  • Andropov

Explanation

Question 32 of 56

1

When did the Soviet Union get their own atomic bomb?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 1947

  • 1949

  • 1953

  • 1952

Explanation

Question 33 of 56

1

When was the H-Bomb developed by America?

Select one of the following:

  • 1945

  • 1954

  • 1955

  • 1952

Explanation

Question 34 of 56

1

When were the Atlas Rockets built

Select one of the following:

  • 1957

  • 1935

  • 1987

  • 1989

Explanation

Question 35 of 56

1

When were ICBMs built?

Select one of the following:

  • 1978

  • 1967

  • 1961

  • 1957

Explanation

Question 36 of 56

1

When were ABMs built?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 1960s

  • 1980s

  • 1950s

  • 1970s

Explanation

Question 37 of 56

1

The Soviet Union created the biggest, most destructive bomb ever built.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 56

1

There was a Mutually Assured Destruction between the USA and the USSR

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 56

1

The Warsaw Pact was set up in 1955

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 56

1

Why did the Hungarians hate being under Communism?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Soviet Officials controlled government, police and army

  • Street signs were put up in Russian

  • They didn't like Khrushchev's strict rules

  • Catholism and Hungarian history banned

  • Only Communist party allowed

  • AVOs were hated

  • brutal puppet leader Rakosi was hated

Explanation

Question 41 of 56

1

When was the Hungarian Uprising?

Select one of the following:

  • 23 October 1956

  • 23 November 1956

  • 10 October 1956

  • 23 October 1965

Explanation

Question 42 of 56

1

How many troops did Khrushchev send to Hungary

Select one of the following:

  • 20,000

  • 200,000

  • 2,000

  • 250,000

  • 25,000

Explanation

Question 43 of 56

1

How many Hungarians were killed and wounded in the Hungarian Uprising?

Select one of the following:

  • 2,500 killed and 2,000 wounded

  • 2,500 wounded and 2,000 killed

  • 2,500 killed and 200,000 wounded

  • 200,000 killed and 2,500 wounded

Explanation

Question 44 of 56

1

What were the results of the Hungarian Upring

Select one or more of the following:

  • Eurocommunism between Italy and France

  • West will not help any country already Communist

  • No country can leave the Warsaw Pact

  • Nagy excecuted

  • China was disgusted and became a rival with the USSR

  • America gave food and aid worth $20 million

  • America allowed 80,000 Hungarians to move in

Explanation

Question 45 of 56

1

Who was the leader of Cuba in before the Cuba Crisis?

Select one of the following:

  • General Batista

  • Khrushchev

  • Antonin

  • Brezhnev

Explanation

Question 46 of 56

1

There were 14,000 prostitutes in the Cuban capital, Havana

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 47 of 56

1

What percentages did the American businesses own?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 90% of phone and electricity

  • 50% of phone and electricity

  • 40% of sugar

  • 60% of sugar

  • 50% of railways

  • 30% of railways

  • All oil refineries

  • 10% of oil refineries

Explanation

Question 48 of 56

1

When did Fidel Castro and Che Guevara take power?

Select one of the following:

  • 1960

  • 1961

  • 1959

  • 1945

  • 1962

Explanation

Question 49 of 56

1

What was the first thing that Che Guevara and Fidel Castro do when they gained power?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Celebrate in the streets of Cuba

  • Take back land from American bussinesses

  • Ask USA for loans

  • Kick Mafia out

  • Arrest General Batista

Explanation

Question 50 of 56

1

President Eisenhower stopped buying Cuban sugar when Fidel Castro and Che Guevara became leaders

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 51 of 56

1

Khrushchev proposed to buy 1,000,000 tonnes of Cuban Sugar and give aid of $100 million if USSR could build nuclear bases on the coast of Cuba

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 52 of 56

1

Why did Khrushchev want to build nuclear bases around Cuban coast?

Select one of the following:

  • 90 miles from America

  • Put nuclear bases as many places as possible

  • They can be used to also protect Cuba

  • No more space available to place nuclear weapons

Explanation

Question 53 of 56

1

When was the Bay of Pigs?

Select one of the following:

  • April 1961

  • July 1961

  • May 1961

  • March 1961

Explanation

Question 54 of 56

1

How many Cuban exiles were there at the Bay of Pigs?

Select one of the following:

  • 13,000

  • 1,300

  • 200,000

  • 20,000

Explanation

Question 55 of 56

1

The ships that carried the Cuban exiles crashed on rocks

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 56 of 56

1

How many troops were the exiles met at the Bay Of Pigs?

Select one of the following:

  • 200,000

  • 2,000

  • 200

  • 20,000

Explanation

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