WorksheetsCold War Quiz - Week 1 Term 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The leaders of the "Big 3" during the Potsdam Conference of July 1945 were...
Stalin
Churchill
Truman
Atlee
A policy adopted by the USA to prevent communism spreading to other nations was known as...
Diplomacy
Expansionism
Containment
Sphere of Influence
The now famous term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the actions of the Soviet Government at the end of WWII...
Ideology
Communism
Sphere of Influence
Iron Curtain
Hungarian Communist leader Matyas Rakosi coined the term (a) to describe Stalin's 1945-1947 actions.
The city of (a) was divided after WW2.
Desribe the post war conditions in Germany
Housing shortage caused by Allied bombing campaigns, especially in winter.
Widespread food and fuel shortages.
12 million German refugees displaced by Red Army from Poland and Eastern Europe.
14 million unemployed.
Identify the two leaders in this image.
Stalin and JFK
Stalin and Eisenhower
Stalin and Truman
Stalin and Roosevelt
How did Truman and the US respond during the Berlin Blockade?
Place US tanks at the head of supply convoys from West Germany and drive through the blockade.
Withdraw all Western forces from Berlin, and continue with rebuilding West Germany peacefully.
Use the US Air Force to supply Berlin with food, fuel and essentials from the air.
Mobilise the US Army along the border of the Soviet zone and deploy strategic bombers ready to use atomic bombs to intimidate the USSR.
The Berlin Blockade was a significant event during the Cold War because...
Germany remained divided until 1990
It revealed inability of USA and USSR to compromise over Germany
It established the basic pattern of Cold War conflict:
The ______ ________ was the first Proxy War (a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved).
Israeli War
Korean War
Vietnam War
Gulf War
In direct response to the establishment of NATO by the West, the ________ _________ was established in 1955 by the Soviets. The main aim being mutual defense and cooperation of the countries under Soviet influence.
(a)
Life under Communism in Soviet states was characterised by which of the following 2 features?
Private ownership of land
A High standard of living
Lack of personal freedom and individual liberties
Lower wages
Freedom of Speech
The acronym MAD _____ ______ ______ was coined during the Cold War (the doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender)
(a)
The two leaders shown here are...
Kennedy
Castro
Ulbricht
Khrushchev
The strategy of bringing your opponent to the point of actual conflict, such as a nuclear war, and forcing them to back down in order to gain an advantage.
Deterence
Brinkmanship
Detente
Bluffing
A previously independent country under occupation or heavy political economic and military control by another country is known as a (a) state.
Which of the following nations was a Soviet satellite state after WW2?
France
United Kingdom
Poland
Belgium
In ____, the USA and USSR were drawn into a major confrontation over the island state of Cuba.
1960
1961
1962
1963
The 3 main purposes of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) were to:
End hostilities with the Soviet Union
Deter Soviet expansion
prevent a revival of national militarism
encourage political cooperation between the US and her allies
The operational name of the secret US project, initiated in 1942 to research and construct nuclear weapons was known as...
Operation Big Boom
Little Boy Project
The Fission Mission
The Manhattan Project
