The Emergence of the Superpowers, 1945-62 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryCold WarA2/A-levelAQA Created by: s0ph1eeCreated on: 01-05-16 17:16 Which nation had gained the most territory at the end of the Second World War? USSR 1 of 33 What conference took place in 1943? Tehran 2 of 33 What conference took place in February 1945? Yalta 3 of 33 What conference took place in July 1945? Potsdam 4 of 33 What was the nature of the Grand Alliance? Marriage of Convenience 5 of 33 What uprising took place in August 1944? Warsaw 6 of 33 Who died in April 1945? Roosevelt 7 of 33 Who replaced Churchill as British Prime Minister in 1945? Attlee 8 of 33 Who made the 'Iron Curtain' Speech? Churchill 9 of 33 What was the impact of Kennan's 'Long Telegram' (February 1946)? Truman Doctrine 10 of 33 What foreign policy was the basis of the Truman Doctrine? Containment 11 of 33 What was the West's response to the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)? Berlin Airlift 12 of 33 What was West Germany called? Federal Republic of Germany 13 of 33 What was East Germany called? German Democratic Republic 14 of 33 What occurred between 1950 and 1953? Korean War 15 of 33 What was the west's defensive alliance called? NATO 16 of 33 What was the east's defensive alliance called? Warsaw Pact 17 of 33 What was the west's economic recovery plan? Marshall Plan 18 of 33 What was the east's economic recovery plan? Comecon 19 of 33 When did Stalin die? March 1953 20 of 33 What did Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' propose? De-stalinisation 21 of 33 What happened in February 1956? Secret Speech 22 of 33 What happened in November 1956? Hungarian Invasion 23 of 33 What was launched in October 1957? Sputnik 24 of 33 What happened on 13th August 1961? Berlin Wall 25 of 33 What policy did Khrushchev put forward which argued that peaceful relations between socialist and capitalist countries was possible? Peaceful Coexistence 26 of 33 What did the Austrian State Treaty (1955) agree that Austria would be? Neutral 27 of 33 What policy did Eisenhower and Dulles pursue that risked war? Brinkmanship 28 of 33 What did the Truman Doctrine (1957) commit to protect in the Middle East? Oil Supplies 29 of 33 What did Eisenhower and Dulles plan to do in order to make the 'Iron Curtain' move eastwards? Rollback 30 of 33 What is the name of Eisenhower's proposal at the Geneva Summit (1955) that would see the USA and USSR openly revealing their nuclear weapons capacity? Open Skies 31 of 33 How did the USA acquire the bomb (July 1945)? Manhattan Project 32 of 33 How did the USSR acquire the bomb (August 1949)? Espionage 33 of 33
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