The Cold War 1917-1949

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What was given to Stalin in return for joining the war against Japan?
The Manchurian Railway
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Which conference did the USSR agree to join the war against Japan?
Yalta
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Which railway did Stalin gain control of?
Manchurian
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At which conference did Stalin gain control of the Manchurian railway?
Yalta
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What organisation did the Big 3 agreed to set up to replace the League of Nations?
United Nations
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Where was it agreed to create the United Nations?
Yalta
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Communists believed that progress was achieved how?
Co-operation
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Which new weapon did the USA have by Potsdam
Atomic bomb
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Why was the atomic bomb significant?
by the time of Potsdam, the USA were more powerful than USSR
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In which country was Stalin accused of crushing democracy?
Poland
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What did Stalin do in Poland?
He arrested non-Communist leaders to rig the election
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How many people were killed in Stalin's purges in the 1930's?
20 million
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Which conference was the USSR not invited to?
The Munich conference
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After WW2, the USA and the USSR were known as?
The super powers
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What was the ideology of the USA?
Capitalism
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When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
1939
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What did the West use as proof for Stalin's treachery?
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
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What is democracy?
The idea that parties should be able to compete for power
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Which American president attended the Yalta conference?
Roosevelt
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In what year did Hitler invade Soviet Russia?
1941
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What did communists believe in to control propaganda?
Censorship
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What year did the UK, USA and France send troops to srch the USSR communists?
1918
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Which British Foreign Minister was at Yalta?
Eden
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The USSR aimed to industrialise to protect themselves from the west in the …?
Five-Year Plans
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What country was the allies at war with?
Japan
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At Potsdam, what was agreed would happen to Germany?
It would be democratised, demilitarised, disarmed and denazified
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Who was the Soviet Foreign Minister at Yalta and Potsdam
Molotov
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What document was forged, suggesting the USSR planned to overthrow the UK government
Zinoviev Letter
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When was the Zinoviev Letter written?
1924
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What was Stalin's nickname from the West?
Uncle Joe
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Which country was in control of Eastern Europe by 1945, and so most powerful at Yalta?
USSR
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Stalin's campaigns which killed 20 million people in the USSR are known as the…?
Purges
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Which conference was first?
Yalta
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What was Stalin's tactic of taking apart opposition 'slice by slice' in Eastern Europe?
Salami Tactics
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What was the ideology of the Soviet Union?
Communism
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At Yalta, the Big 3 promised 'Free and Fair' elections in the Declaration of …? Europe
Liberated
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Hitler's invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941 was called…?
Barbarossa
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What is the idea that one party could rule on behalf of everybody?
Dictatorship
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Which American president replaced Roosevelt at Potsdam?
Truman
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Capitalists believed that progress was achieved how?
Competition
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When did the Great Purges start in the USSR?
1934
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Who was the Soviet leader at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?
Stalin
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Which UK Prime Minister replaced Churchill halfway through the Potsdam Conference?
Attlee
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What did capitalists believe in to not control propaganda?
Free media
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What was finally agreed at Potsdam (money)?
Reparations
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What organisation was set up by Lenin in 1919 to overthrown capitalist governments everywhere?
Comintern
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At Yalta, the Big 3 agreed to split Germany how?
Into four zones of occupation as well as splitting Berlin
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At Yalta, the Big 3 agreed that which country should have a 'government of national unity'?
Poland
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Which territory did Germany and USSR agreed to share in the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
Poland
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Who was the leader of the Communist Revolution in Russia?
Lenin
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Which Western leader described Lenin as a 'plague virus'?
Chuchill
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How did Churchill describe Lenin?
a plague virus
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When was the five-Year plan launched?
1928
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When was the Communist Revolution?
1917
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When was the Munich conference?
1938
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Which conference was the USSR not invited to?
Munich conference
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What was given to Hitler by the UK at the Munich Conference?
Studetenland
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Which 1939 agreement sparked off WW2?
Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Which territory was shared by the USSR and Germany in the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
Poland
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When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945
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When was the Potsdam conference?
July-August 1945
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When did Russia become a western Ally?
1941
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What organisation did Britain and France refuse entry to the League of Nations in 1920?
The USSR
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When was Russia refused access to the League of Nations?
1920
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