The development of the Cold War.

What was the Marshall Plan?

• An economic plan to help European countries recover after WW2

• An economic plan to give aid to countries trying to escape the sphere of influecne.

• A military plan to attack the USSR if they invaded the USA.

Which of the following are consequences of the Marshall Plan?

• Aid allowed many European countries to recover more quickly. It demonstrated the USAs support for Europe.

• All member states from Eastern European countries worked together to help each other recover.

• It brought countries from the Eastern bloc together.

What was the purpose of Cominform?

• It brought Eastern bloc countries closer together.

• All Eastern European countries worked together to help each other recover.

• It brought Eastern bloc together to form one group that followed policies set by Stalin in Moscow.

What was the purpose of Comecon?

• All member states from Eastern European countries worked together to help each other recover.

• Brought Eastern bloc together to follow policies set by Stalin in Moscow.

• The USA had more European trading partners.

What increased tension in Berlin in 1948?

• The Berlin Wall was built.

• The USA and Britain combined their zones in to Bizonia and introduced the Deutsche Mark.

• The USSR felt left out.

Define the Berlin blockade.

• Stalin blocked the road, canal and rail routes into West Berlin preventing supplies reaching West Berlin.

• Khrushchev blocked the road, canal and rail routes into West Berlin preventing supplies reaching West Berlin.

• Stalin blocked the road, canal and rail routes into East Berlin preventing supplies reaching East Berlin.

Define the Berlin airlift

• Britain airlifted refugees out of the East.

• British and US planes delivered supplies to West Berlin between 26 June and 12 May 1948

• Stalin airlifted refugees out of West Berlin.

Name five Western European states that formed NATO along with the USA and Canada in 1949

• USSR, Britain, France, USA, Poland

• Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy.

• Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary.

What were two consequences of the Berlin blockade and airlift?

• It made relations better between USA and USSR. They realised they needed to work together.

• Stalin showed he was not afraid to be aggressive. People started to flee from the East.

• USA, France and Britain created the Federal Republic of Germany (FDR) and Stalin created the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

Which of these is not a cause of the Berlin blockade?

• Stalin wanted American, British and French troops to withdraw from Berlin.

• Supplies reached West Berlin through Soviet controlled East Germany. The soviets blocked this off.

• NATO was formed.