Cold War - Origins and Conferences

Which of the below are ideas associated with communism?

• A Parliament votes on and passes laws

• We should only make as many products as we need

• People should be free to start their own businesses and make a profit

• Everyone must work for the state

• Only one political party

Which of the below are ideas associated with capitalism?

• A Parliament votes on and passes laws

• We should only make as many products as we need

• People should be free to start their own businesses and make a profit

• Everyone must work for the state

• Only one political party

What is a cold war?

• a conflict in which actual fighting takes place

• A war waged against an enemy by every means short of actually fighting

Which countries were involved in the Grand Alliance?

• USA

• USSR

• Japan

• Germany

• Britain

What was agreed at the Tehran Conference in 1943?

• USSR would declare war on Japan once Germany

  was defeated

• Polish citizens would be handed to Soviet control

• Second front to be opened in France rather than the Balkans

• An international organisation to be created to deal with future disputes.

Which is the correct order of the conferences?

• Yalta, Potsdam, Tehran

• Tehran, Potsdam, Yalta

• Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam.

• Potsdam, Yalta, Tehran

Who attended the Yalta Conference?

• Stalin

• Attlee

• Churchill

• Truman

• Roosevelt

At Yalta, how much was Germany to pay in reparations?

• $10bn

• $20bn

• $30bn

• $40bn

What was confirmed at Potsdam about Berlin and Germany?

• Both Germany and Berlin would be divided into four zones.

• German economy would be run as a whole.

• Borders of Poland would be moved west.

• Berlin would be under the control of the Soviet Union.

How did Truman take a different approach at the conferences compared to Roosevelt? Select multiple answers.

• He was strongly anti-Communist and suspicious of Stalin.

• He was more lenient towards Stalin and allowed him to dominate the decisions made.

• Truman was worried that Stalin’s activities in Eastern Europe was part of a Soviet plan to take-over Europe