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6. Why did lots of people defect from East to West Berlin?

  • Better standard of life and more freedom
  • The life in West Berlin was longer as the sun set slightly after it did in the East
  • West had better technology and internet access
  • East was running out of warm bathing water

7. What was a long term reason to why the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961?

  • The number of defectors from East to West was still increasing and at the rate they were going, the East Berlin economy was going to collapse
  • Khrushchev knew that a wall would scare the USA
  • The USA didn't want a war so built a wall to prevent the USSR invading West Berlin

8. Why was their tension between East and West Berlin?

  • West had access to nice tv and had better drainage then East
  • East had low standards of living and West was Capitalist and higher
  • East had a high population of skilled labour that West lacked
  • West had too many doctors and East had too many nurses

9. What was the Marshall Plan?

  • American Aid to European countries to help rebuild their economies so they could be strong enough to resist the USSR's plan to spread communism
  • American monetary aid to help European countries build houses and infrastructure to allow more Jewish refugees into their countries
  • French Humanitarian aid to help Eastern European countries focus their efforts on education to better their economy in the long term
  • German monetary aid to help other European countries develop their political system to prevent the rise of extremism once again

10. How many sections were Germany divided into after WW2?

  • 4 - USA, UK, France and USSR
  • 5 - USA, UK, Germany, France and USSR
  • 3 - USA, UK and USSR
  • 2 - USA and USSR

11. Who became American President in 1961?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F Kennedy
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Jimmy Carter

12. When was the Berlin Wall erected?

  • 10th August 1961
  • 15th August 1961
  • 13th August 1961
  • 11th August 1961

13. What is the Cold War?

  • The battle of ideologies between the USSR and Japan
  • The heightened tensions between the USA and the USSR post WW2. Called Cold because of the lack of actual physical aggression.
  • The war between Britain and the USA. Called Cold because of their subzero median climates

14. How and when was Berlin split?

  • 1949, Berlin remained split into 4 for the entirety of the Cold War
  • 1948, Berlin was split into 4 at first but eventually half became East German and half West German
  • 1949, Berlin all belonged to the allies
  • 1948, Berlin was in East Germany and hence was never split

15. What happened in 1958?

  • Khrushchev dies which causes the USSR to denounce communism
  • Khrushchev gave Western troops an ultimatum of 6 months to leave West Berlin which instigates a lot of tension
  • Eisenhower dies and sends the US into a political frenzy
  • Khrushchev gave Western troops an ultimatum of 9 months to leave West Berlin which instigates a lot of tension

16. What happened in 1960?

  • The first H bomb was successfully produced
  • The USSR shot down an American spy plane called U2 and captured its pilot
  • Americans were first into space

17. Why was a lot of defectors bad?

  • Only a few defectors were men so the East became over populated with Women who in most cases were economically inactive
  • Defectors carried disease so it was actually a positive thing
  • The majority of defectors were skilled and fuelled the East's economy. Them leaving caused a rapid decrease in East's economy and a rapid rise in West's
  • Defectors may have brought lots of food and resources from the East which meant less for those that remained

18. What was a short term reason to why the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961?

  • JFK was a new, young and inexperienced President. Khrushchev wished to exploit his weakness and when demanding Western troops leave Berlin- JFK refused
  • Small fights were breaking out between Soviet and Allied troops
  • Within the USSR, lots of demonstrations breaking out demanding the USSR to take action against the West

19. What was the Truman Doctrine?

  • President Truman's morals and daily guidelines
  • A list of rules every country was to follow if they wanted to become Capitalist
  • A promise made by the USA to support any nation threatened by a Communist takeover, for example Turkey and Greece were given $400 Million.
  • A manifesto that governed America during the Cold War