Iron Curtain

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A quiz about the Iron Curtain and its background and effects, and the Truman Doctrine.
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Questão 1

Questão
What form of protection did Stalin want at the beginning of the Cold War?
Responda
  • A buffer zone of other countries
  • Treaties between USSR and USA
  • Power over more countries

Questão 2

Questão
Why did he want this protection?
Responda
  • For more control
  • Against any future invasion of Soviet Russia
  • So his power over countries wasn't threatened

Questão 3

Questão
How did this happen?
Responda
  • Soviet troops freed countries from Nazi control but stayed in control as pro-USSR communist governments were set up
  • They invaded soon after the Second World War
  • 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?
Responda
  • They had signed a treaty with other countries so there was no chance of invasion
  • They had agreed that countries freed from German control would have free elections to decide their new government
  • They had agreed to respect each other's boundaries
  • The setting up of the UN meant there was to be no indirect form of attack between countries

Questão 5

Questão
Whose speech mentioned an 'Iron Curtain'?
Responda
  • Truman's
  • Churchill's
  • Attlee's
  • Roosevelt's
  • Khrushchev's

Questão 6

Questão
Who did not seem concerned at first with this 'Iron Curtain'?
Responda
  • Truman
  • Churchill
  • Stalin
  • Roosevelt
  • Attlee

Questão 7

Questão
What did Churchill want to resist the expansion of the USSR in the East?
Responda
  • Eastern European countries to join forces to rebel against the Iron Curtain
  • Treaties and pacts with Eastern European countries to avoid Soviet control
  • Western powers to have an alliance between them
  • 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
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 9

Questão
Which of these countries were part of the Iron Curtain?
Responda
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Hungary
  • Austria
  • Albania
  • Poland
  • Greece
  • Romania

Questão 10

Questão
Which of these Iron Curtain countries were communist but independent from the USSR?
Responda
  • East Germany
  • Yugoslavia
  • Bulgaria
  • Switzerland
  • Romania

Questão 11

Questão
The Iron Curtain made the situation more suspicious/ frosty between USSR and the West
Responda
  • True
  • False

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)?
Responda
  • Greece
  • Turkey
  • Poland
  • Germany
  • Czechoslovakia

Questão 13

Questão
What did he realise, what formal document did he record his epiphany in, and in what year?
Responda
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • 1947
  • 1946
  • 1951
  • 1945
  • 1948
  • That the only way to combat USSR's takeover was to use American resources
  • That they had to fight the communists in the Iron Curtain countries
  • That he was bored not caring and wanted to be a hero

Questão 14

Questão
Which is a summary of this document?
Responda
  • "It is our duty to help countries fighting attempted conquest."
  • "If we don't do our duty, the peace of the world may be threatened."
  • "Minority groups who are fighting communism deserve our help."
  • "Those who fight outside pressures and attempted conquest should be given aid e.g resources, money."
  • "Our aid will help them to persevere and fight."
  • "Our aid will persuade them to turn away from outside pressures."
  • "Our aid will persuade them to turn away from communism."

Questão 15

Questão
The policy of containment was founded through Marshall Aid
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

Questão
The policy of containment was founded through the Truman Doctrine
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
Many capitalists felt the Truman Doctrine was a declaration of war against communism.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on Stalin.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

Questão
Many communists felt the Truman Doctrine was an indirect declaration of war on communism.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
In this way, many regard the Truman Doctrine as the start of the Cold War.
Responda
  • True
  • False

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