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🧊 Origins of the Cold War – GCSE
History · GCSE — practise the conferences, doctrines and crises that began the Cold War between 1941 and 1958
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Who gave the famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946?
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Clement Attlee
Harry Truman
20s
Which three leaders met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945?
Roosevelt, Churchill and de Gaulle
Truman, Churchill and Stalin
Truman, Attlee and Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
20s
In communist ideology, as followed by the Soviet Union, who should own factories, farms and businesses?
Foreign investors and banks
The state, on behalf of the people
The monarch and the nobility
Private individuals and companies
20s
When it was announced in March 1947, the Truman Doctrine first promised US aid to which countries?
Greece and Turkey
Yugoslavia and Albania
Poland and Hungary
France and Italy
20s
Which Western action in June 1948 directly triggered Stalin's blockade of West Berlin?
Forming the NATO military alliance
Announcing the Truman Doctrine
Introducing a new currency in the western zones
Letting West Germany join NATO
30s
Which organisation was formed in April 1949, partly in response to the Berlin Blockade?
NATO
Comecon
Cominform
The Warsaw Pact
20s
How did Stalin respond to the Marshall Plan?
He created the Warsaw Pact straight away
He let Eastern bloc states accept the aid
He set up Comecon for the Eastern bloc
He offered Soviet aid to Western Europe
30s
Why was the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945) more tense than Yalta?
Truman distrusted Stalin more than Roosevelt had
Stalin refused to attend the conference
Britain had left the wartime alliance
Germany had not yet surrendered
30s
Which event in 1955 prompted the Soviet Union to set up the Warsaw Pact?
The launch of the Marshall Plan
West Germany joining NATO
The end of the Berlin Airlift
The Hungarian Uprising
30s
Which decision by Hungary's leader Imre Nagy most alarmed Khrushchev and led to the Soviet invasion in November 1956?
Joining the Marshall Plan programme
Withdrawing Hungary from the Warsaw Pact
Asking Moscow to send more Soviet troops
Replacing Rákosi with Gerő as leader
30s