The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift.

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GCSE (The Origins of the Cold War) History Test sobre The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift., creado por mmit el 27/05/2013.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
What was containment?
Respuesta
  • Containment was an american intervention plan to stop the spread of communism.
  • Containment stops diseases spreading.

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
What was the Truman doctrine?
Respuesta
  • An intervention plan.
  • A piece of paper signed by president Truman.

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
Why did the Americans introduce the Marshall plan?
Respuesta
  • Stop the spread of communism.
  • So other countries would trade with america.

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Why did some Americans oppose at first?
Respuesta
  • They didn't want a war.
  • The money was taking from American peoples taxes.

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Why did they later change their mind?
Respuesta
  • USSR threatened war.
  • Czechoslovakia went communist.
  • Kennedy made a live television broadcast explaining.

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
How much money was offered?
Respuesta
  • $10 billion
  • $17 billion

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
Name one country which took the country and one that didn't.
Respuesta
  • The west took the money, the east did not.
  • The east took the money, the west did not.

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What did Stalin think of the Marshall Plan?
Respuesta
  • Not much.
  • America was trying to 'buy' friends.

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
How were Russian ans American attitudes towards Germany different?
Respuesta
  • The Russians wanted Germany to recover, America wanted them weakened.
  • The Americans wanted Germany to recover, Russia wanted them weakened.

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
Why did Stalin blockade West Berlin?
Respuesta
  • He wanted to split Germany and make them rely on the USSR.
  • He wanted money from Germany to get ahead in the nuclear arms race.
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