• America and Russia were enemies but they didn’t declare war. But they did everything to oppose each other short of war.
$300 Question from H1
• The USA is a ‘capitalist democracy’. What do these words mean?
$300 Answer from H1
– Capitalists believe that property and industry should be privately owned.
– Democracy is where the people can elect their own government
$400 Question from H1
• Name TWO historical complaints that Stalin had against Britain and the USA
$400 Answer from H1
– In 1918 Britain and the USA had tried to destroy the Russian Revolution.
– Stalin thought that they had not given him enough help in the Second World War.
$500 Question from H1
• Give FOUR things agreed at Yalta.
$500 Answer from H1
– Divide Germany into four ‘zones’, which Britain, France, the USA and the USSR would occupy after the war.
– Hold elections in the countries of eastern Europe.
– Set up a government in Poland which would contain both Communists and non-Communists.
– Set up the United Nations.
$100 Question from H2
• What is meant by the term ‘salami tactics’?
$100 Answer from H2
• The US believed that the USSR were taking over Europe bit by bit or slice by slice. This was referred to as salami tactics.
$200 Question from H2
• What was the buffer zone?
$200 Answer from H2
• The selection of countries between the USSR and Germany. The USSR wanted these countries to act as protection or as a buffer against any future attack.
$300 Question from H2
$300 Answer from H2
$400 Question from H2
• Give FOUR things agreed at Yalta.
$400 Answer from H2
– Divide Germany into four ‘zones’, which Britain, France, the USA and the USSR would occupy after the war.
– Hold elections in the countries of eastern Europe.
– Set up a government in Poland which would contain both Communists and non-Communists.
– Set up the United Nations.
$500 Question from H2
• List NINE events leading up to the Cold War, Feb 1945 to Mar 1948
This author wrote, “If one man kills another, it murder, but if a hundred thousand men kill another hundred thousand, it is considered an act of glory!?”