The Cold War
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write four stages of the Cold War (beginning, tension, détente, end) with years.
1946–1953 beginning; 1950s–60s tension; 1970s détente; 1985–1991 end.
2
How do the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall differ? Write briefly.
The blockade (1948–1949) closed the land supply routes to West Berlin; the wall (1961) separated East Berlin from West Berlin.
3
What was the aim of the Marshall Plan? Why did the USSR decline it?
To rebuild Europe; the USSR saw it as strengthening US influence.
4
Name three founding leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Josip Broz Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
5
Why are the 1970s called the period of détente? Justify with two documents.
The sides negotiated: SALT I (1972) and the Helsinki Final Act (1975).