RAT Cold War origins mix up

Order the three main peace conferences from this time.

• Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam.
• Yalta, Potsdam, Tehran
• Potsdam, Tehran, Yalta
• Yalta, Tehran, Potsdam

What did the Long Telegram claim the USSR wanted to do?

• Destroy capitalism
• Dominate the world
• Make all countries capitalist
• Join NATO

What international event happened between the 1945 conferences?

• Atomic bomb testing
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Churchill resigned

What did the Truman Doctrine state?

• Communism should not be allowed to spread
• Communism should be encouraged
• That you should always tell the truth
• That Europe should be left alone

How did the USSR feel about Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid?

• Evidence the USA wanted to crush the USSR
• Really pleased that they were going to get money
• That it was not enough money
• That the USA likes communism

What was the Berlin Blockade?

• When Stalin cut off supply routes from the West
• When Stalin cut off supply routes from the USSR
• When Stalin gave money to Germany
• When the Berlin Wall was built

What was Comecon?

• Money given to satellite states to keep them becoming communist

• Money satellite states had to give the USSR to let them be communist
• Money given to countries to stop them being communist
• Money given to Germany

What did Khrushchev mean by peaceful coexistence?

• That the USA and USSR would get along
• That the USA and USSR would not get along
• That they were going to have a peace conference
• That they would talk about each other behind their backs

Why did the Hungarians think that they could break away from Russian control?

• As Khrushchev has criticised Stalin, they thought he would be different
• As Khrushchev has criticised Stalin, they thought he would be the same
• As the USSR had changed their foreign plocy
• As the other countries in the Warsaw Pact did not like them

How did Khrushchev’s reaction to the Hungarian Uprising effect his position within the Warsaw Pact?

• Made him stronger as they had to do what they were told
• Made him weaker as Hungary tried to become independent
• Gave him the job as General Secretary
• No change