Origins of the Cold War quiz: the breakdown of the alliance, containment, the Berlin Blockade and the rival blocs (O-Level Elective History) quiz

Because the common enemy was gone and deep differences in ideology and aims resurfaced

Because they had never cooperated at all

Because they signed a permanent peace treaty

Because both became communist

Monarchy versus republic

American capitalism and democracy versus Soviet communism

Catholicism versus Protestantism

Free trade versus protectionism only

Spreading communism worldwide

Disbanding the American army

Stopping the spread of communism beyond where it already existed

Allying with the Soviet Union

American withdrawal from world affairs

The disarmament of the United States

Aid to the Soviet Union

American support for countries threatened by communism

By giving large-scale economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and strengthen it against communism

By providing weapons to the Soviet Union

By dividing Germany into four zones

By creating the United Nations

It eagerly accepted the aid

It rejected the aid, deepening the division of Europe

It joined NATO

It dissolved the Soviet Union

To give West Berlin to the Western powers

To start the Second World War

Partly in response to the West introducing a new currency, to force the West out of Berlin

To support the Marshall Plan

By surrendering West Berlin

By withdrawing from Germany entirely

By invading the Soviet Union

By the Berlin Airlift, flying in supplies until Stalin lifted the blockade

It confirmed the division of Germany into West and East and hardened the Cold War

The reunification of Germany

The end of the Cold War

The dissolution of NATO

As a trade organisation

As a military alliance for collective defence, so an attack on one member was an attack on all

To spread communism

To replace the United Nations

To join the Western alliance

To end the Cold War

As the Soviet bloc's military alliance, partly in response to West Germany joining NATO

To give independence to Eastern Europe

United it into one bloc

Ended the ideological conflict

Removed all military forces

Completed its division into two rival armed camps

Cross-referencing sources, judging reliability from provenance, and reaching a supported judgement on the hypothesis

Paraphrasing each source in turn

Ignoring the provenance of the sources

Using only your own knowledge with no sources

Only the Soviet Union was to blame, with no other factors

Responsibility was shared, as ideological differences and each side's actions were read by the other as aggression

Only the United States was to blame

No one bears any responsibility