PAST EXAM QUESTIONS ON THE EARLY YEARS OF THE COLD WAR

2010 - Jan

2010 Summer
SOURCE A = Source 15 cartoon on p 323 Walsh (Churchill peering under the Iron Curtain)

2011 Summer

2012 Jan (This is a hard one)

2012 Summer

Jan 2013
1. What did the USSR gain from the Yalta & Potsdam
conferences? [4]
2. Explain why it was difficult to reach agreement at the
Potsdam conference? [6]
3. The US was successful in containing Communismj in
Europe up to 1949. How far do you agree with this
view? [10]
Summer 2013
1. What is the message of Source A (LEFT)? Use details
of the cartoon & your own knowledge to answer. [7]
2. Explain why Marshall Aid was offered to countries in
Europe. [8]

Jan 2011
1. What is the message of the
cartoon? Use details of the
source & your own knowledge to
answer [7]
2. Explain why the Soviet Union
blockaded Berlin in 1948. [8]