Pregunta 1
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What form of protection did Stalin want at the beginning of the Cold War?
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A buffer zone of other countries
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Treaties between USSR and USA
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Power over more countries
Pregunta 2
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Why did he want this protection?
Pregunta 3
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How did this happen?
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Soviet troops freed countries from Nazi control but stayed in control as pro-USSR communist governments were set up
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They invaded soon after the Second World War
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Stalin already had power in these countries but gradually moved in more troops until they were in control
Pregunta 4
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How did this break an agreement at Yalta?
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They had signed a treaty with other countries so there was no chance of invasion
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They had agreed that countries freed from German control would have free elections to decide their new government
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They had agreed to respect each other's boundaries
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The setting up of the UN meant there was to be no indirect form of attack between countries
Pregunta 5
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Whose speech mentioned an 'Iron Curtain'?
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Truman's
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Churchill's
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Attlee's
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Roosevelt's
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Khrushchev's
Pregunta 6
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Who did not seem concerned at first with this 'Iron Curtain'?
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Truman
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Churchill
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Stalin
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Roosevelt
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Attlee
Pregunta 7
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What did Churchill want to resist the expansion of the USSR in the East?
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Eastern European countries to join forces to rebel against the Iron Curtain
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Treaties and pacts with Eastern European countries to avoid Soviet control
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Western powers to have an alliance between them
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A form of aid to reach out to these countries and persuade them to boycott communism
Pregunta 8
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The name Iron Curtain means the imaginary line between Communism in the East and Capitalism in the West
Pregunta 9
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Which of these countries were part of the Iron Curtain?
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Czechoslovakia
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Hungary
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Austria
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Albania
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Poland
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Greece
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Romania
Pregunta 10
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Which of these Iron Curtain countries were communist but independent from the USSR?
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East Germany
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Yugoslavia
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Bulgaria
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Switzerland
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Romania
Pregunta 11
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The Iron Curtain made the situation more suspicious/ frosty between USSR and the West
Pregunta 12
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The civil war against communists in which country helped Truman to realise there were issues with the East (e.g Iron Curtain)?
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Greece
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Turkey
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Poland
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Germany
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Czechoslovakia
Pregunta 13
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What did he realise, what formal document did he record his epiphany in, and in what year?
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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1947
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1946
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1951
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1945
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1948
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That the only way to combat USSR's takeover was to use American resources
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That they had to fight the communists in the Iron Curtain countries
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That he was bored not caring and wanted to be a hero
Pregunta 14
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Which is a summary of this document?
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"It is our duty to help countries fighting attempted conquest."
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"If we don't do our duty, the peace of the world may be threatened."
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"Minority groups who are fighting communism deserve our help."
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"Those who fight outside pressures and attempted conquest should be given aid e.g resources, money."
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"Our aid will help them to persevere and fight."
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"Our aid will persuade them to turn away from outside pressures."
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"Our aid will persuade them to turn away from communism."
Pregunta 15
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The policy of containment was founded through Marshall Aid
Pregunta 16
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The policy of containment was founded through the Truman Doctrine
Pregunta 17
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Many capitalists felt the Truman Doctrine was a declaration of war against communism.
Pregunta 18
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Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on Stalin.
Pregunta 19
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Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on communism.
Pregunta 20
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In this way, many regard the Truman Doctrine as the start of the Cold War.