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6. Why did Stalin Orchestrate the Berlin Blockade? (1948-49)

  • To gain control of different territories.
  • To seperate communism and capitalism in Germany.
  • To prevent the establishment of a seperate state in western Germany.
  • To show power to the Western countries.

7. Who was the leader of the new communist government in Cuba?

  • Batista
  • Krushchev
  • Fidel Castro
  • Kennedy

8. How did Eisenhower respond to the crisis in Hungary?

  • Sent financial aid but no military support.
  • Sent weapons and supplies for soldiers.
  • Sent military support but no financial aid.
  • They did nothing.

9. What date did the building of the Berlin Wall begin?

  • May 1964
  • August 1961
  • August 1962
  • June 1961

10. Why was the Berlin wall put up?

  • To deal with the refugee problem from East Germany to West.
  • To demonstrate the power of the USSR.
  • To deal with the refugee problem from West Germany to East.
  • To seperate Capitalism from Communism

11. What is a satellite state?

  • An officially independant country, but is really controlled by the USSR.
  • A country owned by the USSR
  • A country governed by the USSR
  • An eastern European country.

12. How did Truman respond to the Berlin Blockade?

  • Berlin Airlift
  • Sent troops to Berlin
  • Propaganda war

13. What year Comecon established in?

  • 1949
  • 1947
  • 1950
  • 1951

14. What does NATO stand for?

  • National Arms Treaty Organisation
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  • North American Treaty Organisation

15. In what year was the bay of pigs?

  • 1962
  • 1963
  • 1961
  • 1960

16. In what month of what year did Stalin end the Berlin Blockade?

  • June 1949
  • May 1950
  • May 1949
  • May 1948

17. Name one of the reforms proposed by Imre Nagy.

  • Hungarian people should rise up against the Russian soldiers
  • Hungary Should Leave the Warsaw Pact and become neutral.
  • Hungary should declare themselves enemies of Russia.