The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift.

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GCSE History (The Origins of the Cold War) Quiz sobre The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift., criado por mmit em 27-05-2013.
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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

Questão
How much money was offered?
Responda
  • $10 billion
  • $17 billion

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

Questão
Why did Stalin blockade West Berlin?
Responda
  • 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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