IGCSE History Quick Quiz- The Cold War: 1945 to 1975

Which of the following about the Iron Curtain Speech is INCORRECT?

• It's delivered by Winston Churchill.

• It reflected the division of Europe into two halves.

• It criticised the foreign policy of USSR in the Eastern Europe.

• It put the blame on US in upsetting the order of Europe.

Which of the following statements about the Truman Doctrine is INCORRECT?

• The background was the Greek Civil War.

• The purpose was to check the spread of Communism from USSR.

• US sent US$400 million and military experts to Greece and Turkey.

• Greece fell into communist rule in 1949.

How much economic assistance in the Marshal Plan was offered to rebuild Western European economies?

• US$12.2 billion

• US$13.3 billion

• US$14.4 billion

• US$15.5 billion

Which of the following country was a communist state but left the Soviet bloc of USSR in 1948?

• Yugoslavia

• Finland

• Greece

• Poland

Which of the following statements about the Berlin Blockade 1948-49 is INCORRECT?

• The immediate cause was Britain and France ignoring USSR to carry out the currency reform in West Germany.

• On 23 June 1948, USSR cut all routes linking Berlin and the western zones of Germany,

• Britain and France decided to airlift massive supplies into West Berlin.

• The German Democratic Republic was set up in West Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany was set up in East Germany.

Winston Churchill spoke out against what in his "Iron Curtain" speech?

• The Holocaust

• Joseph Stalin

• Communism

• Adolf Hitler

What was the significance of Greece and Turkey in the aftermath of WWII?

• They were invaded by the Soviet Union

• They were the sight of a brutal ethnic war

• They were the first example of the Truman Doctrine in action

• They united into a new Ottoman Empire

At which University did the National Guard open fire upon protestors? 

• K-State 
• Kansas 
• Kennesaw 
• Kent State

President __________ is credited with the plan of Vietnamization

• Ford

• Reagan

• Johnson

• Nixon

Vietnam was a colony of what country prior to the WWII

• France 
• Great Britain
• Portugal 
• Spain