Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

Name:

QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOKLET

Section

Number of Questions

Number of Questions
to be answered

Number of marks

A: Key Knowledge

20

B: Source Analysis

12

12

40

Total

60

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

PART A KEY KNOWLEDGE: ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

What were the 2 main ideologies of the Cold War? How were they different?

(4 marks)

Who were the Big 3?

(3 marks)

What did each member of the Big 3 want from the Peace Conferences at the end of WWII?
(6 marks)
USA

UK

What impact did the Peace Conferences have on the origins of the Cold War?

USSR

(2 marks)

What events lead to Australia and America forming a close alliance? How did this affect Australia in
the Cold War?
(3 marks)

What was ANZUS and why was it important to the progression of the Cold War?

(2 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

PART B SOURCE ANALYSIS

Kidnap me, Kidnap me! [Herald and Weekly Times (AUS) - 1954]
in response to the early Soviet reaction that Petrovs defection was actually a kidnapping on the part
of the Australian Government.
The words underneath read: Mrs Petrov says her husband was kidnapped News item.

1. Identify the 2 key figures that are depicted in the image.

(2 marks)

2. Identify 2 aspects of the image that belittle or make fun of the claim that Petrov was
kidnapped.
(2 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

3. By using the image and your own knowledge, explain the Petrov Affairs impact on Cold War
Australia. Make sure to identify any key events, concepts and individuals.
(5 marks)

4. Evaluate to what extent the source is useful in understanding the Cold War and Cold War
Australia. In your response make sure to reference the image as well as your own
understanding.
(5 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

It is my duty, however, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the
Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities
and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in
one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing
measure of control from Moscow.
The outlook is also anxious in the Far East and especially in Manchuria. The agreement which
was made at Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet Russia, but it was
made at a time when no one could say that the German war might not extend all through the
summer and autumn of 1945 and when the Japanese war was expected by the best judges to last
for a further eighteen months from the end of the German war.
I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable, still more that it is imminent. It is because I am sure
that our fortunes are still in our own hands and that we hold the power to save the future, that I
feel the duty to speak out now that I have the occasion and the opportunity to do so. I do not
believe that Soviet Russia desires war. What they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite
expansion of their power and doctrines. But what we have to consider here today while time
remains, is the permanent prevention of war and the establishment of conditions of freedom and
democracy as rapidly as possible in all countries.
Winston Churchill, Westminster College (Fulton, MI), 1946.
Our difficulties and dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them. They will not be
removed
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Soviet
sphere?
appeasement. What is needed is a settlement, and the longer this is delayed, the more difficult it
will be and the greater our dangers will become.

2. Why was the agreement on Manchuria extremely favourable to Soviet Russia?

(2 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

3. By using the extract and your own knowledge, explain how the Iron Curtain came to be and
why it was such a terrifying prospect to Churchill. Make sure to identify any key events and
individuals.
(5 marks)

4. Evaluate to what extent the source is useful in understanding the origins of the Cold War. In
your response make sure to reference the extract as well as your own understanding.
(5 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

Next Course, Please! [Catholic News Weekly (AUS) - 21 JULY 1954]

1. What is the snake representing in the image?

(1 marks)

2. Identify 2 aspects of the image that highlight the fear of communism in Australia. (2 marks)

Year 10 History

Assessment Task 1

Key Knowledge & Source Analysis

3. By using the image and your own knowledge, explain the Domino Theory, how it came to be
a very real concept in the Cold War and its impact on Cold War Australia. Make sure to
identify any key events, concepts and individuals.
(5 marks)

4. Evaluate to what extent the source is useful in understanding the Cold War and Cold War
Australia. In your response make sure to reference the image as well as your own
understanding.
(5 marks)