Review of Unit 4

When did China become Communist?

• 1949

• 1950

• 1948

• 1951

NATO: North Atlantic (a)   Organisation

What is a proxy war?

• A peaceful competition to achieve global dominance

• Indirect conflict between powers via third parties

• Two countries exchanging diplomats and trading goods

• When diplomatic negotiations resolve a long-standing conflict

What is NOT true about the Berlin Airlift?

• On the 16th April 1949, 1,400 flights brought in 13,000 tons of supplies in one day

• Helicopters were used to transport people across international borders

• It was known as Operation Vittles

• It lasted 11 months

Organise these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Action of the US

,

(b) Action of the USSR

• Protested to the UN about Greece intervention.

• Need to support 'free peoples'

• Changed the currency in West Germany.

• Jan Masaryk was found dead.

Where is Greece?

What did the countries mainly disagree on at Potsdam? More than one correct answer

• How harshly to deal with Germany

• Amount of Reparations

• Stalin's intentions in Eastern Europe

• How to set up the United Nations

What was Cominform?

• A scientific alliance aimed at advancing nuclear energy research in Europe.

• A cultural exchange program focused on art and literature between socialist countries.

• It coordinated Communist parties in Europe under Soviet influence and control.

• A humanitarian organisation that provided aid to post-war refugees in Eastern Europe.

How much money was promised by the USA for Marshall Aid?

• $20 million

• $17 billion

• $9 billion

• $10 million

Greece: ​ (a)   sent British troops in 1945 to support a ‘free election’ but supported the monarchists. 1946, the ​ (b)   complained British troops were a threat to peace. ​ (c)   War broke out.

• Churchill
• USSR
• Civil
• Truman
• Britain
• Nuclear