Unit 2, Area Of Study 1 (VCE History)

What is the name of this Area of Study

• Competing Ideologies

• Cold War or Hot Peace?

• Communism v Capitalism

• Area of Study 2

Our assessment for this AOS will be?

• Extended Response

• Essay

• Source Analysis

• Research

How many total deaths did the Soviet Union have after WWII?

• 13,000,000

• 14,000,000

• 23,000,000

• 24,000,000

Which came first, Yalta or Potsdam?

• Yalta

• Potsdam

Which best describes atomic diplomacy?

• principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack

• managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad

• policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries

• Americas approach to foreign diplomacy in which their possession of atomic weapons played a key component

When did the USA drop the bomb on Nagasaki?

• 6 August 1945

• 9 August 1945

• 6 September 1945

• 9 September 1945

24th June 1948, Stalin order access between East and West Germany be Blockade, including trains roads and canals. What was the Allied response?

• Berlin Airlift

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Policy of Containment?

At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every...

• minute

• hour

• day

• week

Which of the following countries was not in the Warsaw Pact?

• Bulgaria

• Hungary

• East Germany

• Italy

As anti-communist hysteria grew throughout the USA so did the powers of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Who was their Director?

• Eisenhower

• Hoover

• Truman

• McCarthy