Questão 1
Questão
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
Questão 2
Questão
Why did he want this protection?
Questão 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
Questão 4
Questão
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
Questão 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
Questão 6
Questão
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
Questão 7
Questão
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
Questão 8
Questão
The name Iron Curtain means the imaginary line between Communism in the East and Capitalism in the West
Questão 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
Questão 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
Questão 11
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The Iron Curtain made the situation more suspicious/ frosty between USSR and the West
Questão 12
Questão
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
Questão 13
Questão
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
Questão 14
Questão
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."
Questão 15
Questão
The policy of containment was founded through Marshall Aid
Questão 16
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The policy of containment was founded through the Truman Doctrine
Questão 17
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Many capitalists felt the Truman Doctrine was a declaration of war against communism.
Questão 18
Questão
Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on Stalin.
Questão 19
Questão
Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on communism.
Questão 20
Questão
In this way, many regard the Truman Doctrine as the start of the Cold War.