GCSE COLD WAR EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS:

Consequence questions: (8 marks)

Explain 2 consequences of the decisions made at Potsdam 1945

Explain 2 consequences of the Long telegram 1946

Explain 2 consequences of the Truman Doctrine 1947

Explain 2 consequences of the Marshall Plan 1948

Explain 2 consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Explain 2 consequences of the Bay of Pigs 1961

Explain 2 consequences of the Helsinki Accords 1975

Explain 2 consequences of the Strategics Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT) 1972

Explain 2 consequences of Gorbachev’s leadership from 1985

Explain 2 consequences of Reagan’s leadership on relations with the USSR

Explain 2 consequences of Gorbachev’s new thinking from 1985

Explain 2 consequences of theStrategic Defence Initative (SDI)

Explain 2 consequences of the Berlin Ultimatum 1958

Explain 2 consequences of the U2 Spy plane crisis 1960

Explain 2 consequences of the Berlin Wall being built 1961

Explain 2 consequences of the U2 spy plane picture 1962

Explain 2 consequences of the soviet expansion in Europe, between 1945 and 1948

Explain 2 consequences of the Berlin Blockade 1948

Explain 2 consequences of the Arms Race 1945 onwards

Explain 2 consequences of Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership from 1953

Explain 2 consequences of the refugee problem in East Berlin 1958

Explain 2 consequences of theSoviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979

Explain 2 consequences of the ‘Second Cold War’ 1979-1985

Explain 2 consequences of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty 1987

Explain 2 consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

Explain 2 consequences of the end of the Warsaw Pact 1991

Explain 2 consequences of the fall of the Soviet Bloc from 1989.

Narrative questions (8 marks)
Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Berlin Blockade 1948
+ Stalin’s paranoia
+ the Airlift

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Bay of Pigs 1961
+ Cuban Revolution
+ El Brigada

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
+ U2 spy plane
+ Naval Blockade

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of Detente 1969-79

+ Mutually Assured Destruction
+ Helsinki Accords (1972)

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Hungarian Uprising 1956
+ Nagy’s reforms
+ Soviet troops

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Prague Spring 1968
+ The Prague Spring
+ Actions of Bezhnev

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979
+ Mujahadeen Threat
+ Troops enter Afghanistan

Write a narrative account analysing the construction of the Berlin Wall 1961
+ Refugee crisis in East Berlin
+ Wall goes up (Aug 1961)

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Arms Race 1945 onwards
+ Successful Soviet test
+ Economic spending

Write a narrative account analysing the events of the East-West rivalry over Berlin 1958-61
+ Summit meetings
+Berlin Wall

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the Soviet Expansion in Europe 1945-48.
+ Soviet Security
+ Czechoslovakia 1948

Write a narrative account analysing the improvement in relations from 1985-1991

+ Gorbachev’s reforms
+ START

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the collapse of the Soviet Union 1991
+ The Sinatra Doctrine
+ The Moscow coup

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of Gorbachev’s leadership from 1985
+ Glastnost and Perestroika
+ Soviet/US relations

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact 1991
 + removal of Brezhnev Doctrine
+ collapse of Eastern Bloc

Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the slowing of the Arms Race 1989-91
+ Reykjavik summit 1986
+ Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) 1990

Importance questions (8 marks)

Explain….
The importance of Cominform and Comecon for the control of the Soviet Union over the Eastern
Bloc.

The importance of the Arms Race in increasing tensions between the superpowers 1945 onwards

The importance of the Brezhnev Doctrine in controlling the Soviet Bloc

The importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) in improving relations between the Soviet Union
and the US

The importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) in the dissolution of the USSR

The importance of the Truman Doctrine for the development of the Cold War in the years 1947-55
The importance of the Berlin Blockade for the future of Germany

The importance of the formation of NATO for relations between the USA and the Soviet Union

The importance of the invasion of Afghanistan (1979) in ending Detente

The importance of the Hungarian Uprising (1956) in developing the Cold War

The importance of the Marshall Plan (1948) in creating tension between the USA and USSR

The importance of the Warsaw Pact in giving the USSR more security

The importance of Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) in improving relations between the Grand
Alliance

The importance of the creation of Trizonia in developing tension between the East and West

The importance of the refugee problem in Berin in creating tension between the USSR and US

The importance of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba being sa flashpoint in 1962

The importance Cuba in relations between the USSR and USA improving after 1962

The importance of Soviet oppression in causing ‘Prague Spring’ 1968

The importance of the ‘Prague Spring’ for relations between the USA and Soviet Union

The importance of SALT II in the failure of Detente

The importance of Ronald Reagan in the ;Second Cold War’ emerging from 1980.