Test: Cold War, Nato, W and E Germany, Warsaw Pact
1. The struggle between East and West became known as the Cold War because:
A: It was fought in Eastern Europe
B: It was fought in outer space
C: It was fought underwater
D: It did not involve any actual fighting
2. Long-term causes of the Cold War were:
1: Western intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1918
2: Hitler’s attack on the USSR in 1941
3: The failure of Britain and France to form an alliance with the USSR in the 1930s
4: The Berlin Airlift
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 3
C: 2 and 3
D: 3 and 4
3. Shorter term causes of the Cold War were:
1: Disagreements over the treatment of Germany after the Second World War
2: The development of the atomic bomb
3: The creation of the Warsaw Pact
4: The Hungarian Uprising in 1956
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 3
C: 2 and 3
D: 3 and 4
4. The main reason why the Cold War lasted so long was:
A: Rivalry in sport
B: The Space Race
C: Distrust between the Superpowers
D: Disagreements at the United Nations
5. Nato was set up in:
A: 1948
B: 1949
C: 1950
D: 1951
6. Nato stands for the:
A: North American Treaty Organisation
B: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
C: New Atlantic Treaty Organisation
D: North Atlantic Trust Organisation
7. The most important part of Nato is Clause Four. This states that:
A: An attack on one member is an attack on all members
B: All members of the Nato must be democratic countries
C: Communist countries are not allowed to join
D: Nato will always support the decisions of the United Nations
8. Important results of the creation of Nato were that:
1: The Korean War began
2: US forces were stationed in Western Europe
3: The USSR exploded its first atomic bomb
4: The Soviet Bloc was now faced by a military alliance
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 3
C: 2 and 4
D: 3 and 4
9. The explosion of the Soviet atomic bomb in 1949 led to:
A: The creation of Nato
B: An arms race between the Superpowers
C: The setting up of West Germany
D: The outbreak of the Korean War
10. In 1949 the three western Allies set up West Germany because
1: They wanted to rebuild the German economy
2: The Berlin Blockade had failed
3: The USSR had exploded an atomic bomb
4: They had realised that Stalin was not going to co-operate with their plans
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 4
C: 2 and 3
D: 2 and 4
11. The Soviet response to the creation of West Germany was to:
A: Set up the German Democratic Republic
B: Send Soviet forces into Hungary
C: Set up the Warsaw Pact
D: Withdraw from the United Nations
12. Relations between the Superpowers began to improve after 1953 because
A: The Warsaw Pact was set up
B: The USA developed nuclear weapons
C: Hungary was invaded by Soviet troops
D: Joseph Stalin died
13. From the mid-1950s the Soviet Union began to adopt the policy of:
A: Containment
B: Co-existence
C: Co-operation
D: Conflict
14. The new Soviet policy involved:
1: A refusal to discuss issues with western leaders
2: An acceptance that the West had a right to exist
3: An attempt to prove that the Soviet system was better than the West’s
4: A boycott of the United Nations
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 3
C: 2 and 3
D: 3 and 4
15. The new Soviet policy was the idea of the new Soviet leader
A: Nikita Khrushchev
B: Leonid Brezhnev
C: Mikhail Gorbachev
D: Yuri Antropov
16. In 1955 the Soviet Union set up the Warsaw Pact. The full name of the Pact was:
A: The Warsaw Pact
B: The Pact for the preservation of the Soviet Bloc
C: Pact of Mutual Assistance and Unified Command
D: The Warsaw Alliance of Democratic Countries
17. The Warsaw Pact had two main aims:
1: It created a joint command of the armed forces of the alliance
2: It set up a Political Committee to co-ordinate the foreign policies of the members
3: It pooled the economic resources of the countries of the Soviet Bloc
4: It forced member countries to contribute forces to the Red Army
A: 1 and 2
B: 1 and 3
C: 1 and 4
D: 2 and 3
18. The main reason for the formation of the Warsaw Pact was:
A: The setting up of Nato
B: The Hungarian Uprising
C: Unrest in Poland
D: The admission of West Germany to Nato
19. The creation of the Warsaw Pact meant that:
1: The West was now unable to interfere in the affairs of the Soviet Bloc
2: West Berlin was completely cut off from the West
3: Europe was divided between two military alliances
4: Competition between East and West increased
A: 1 and 3
B: 2 and 3
C: 2 and 4
D: 3 and 4
20. The major influence in the Warsaw Pact was:
A: East Germany
B: The USSR
C: Poland
D: Czechoslovakia
London Revision Test Teachers’ Answer Sheet: Cold War
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