Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.12: Europe during and after the Cold War (1945–2020) Questions
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In the 2016 Brexit referendum, what was the result of the vote on UK membership of the EU?
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Why was Yugoslavia able to break from Moscow's control in 1948 and survive, unlike Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968?
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Which treaty, signed in 1992, transformed the European Community into the European Union?
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What was the immediate consequence of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-49)?
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What immediate problem in East Germany led Walter Ulbricht to warn Khrushchev that the GDR could collapse?
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At the Yalta Conference (February 1945), what did the 'Big Three' agree regarding Eastern Europe?
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The 2004 'Big Bang' EU expansion, which added ten new member states in a single wave, notably included which two countries?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that ideological differences, rather than economic factors, best explain the emergence of the Cold War in Europe by 1949?
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Evaluate the claim that NATO and the EEC were driven primarily by genuine ideals of security and unity rather than by the self-interest of their most powerful members.
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Discuss the view that the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 was the decisive turning point that made the formal division of Germany unavoidable.
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To what extent do you agree that the Berlin Wall (1961) should be judged primarily as a sign of communist failure rather than a rational response to a genuine crisis?
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Discuss the view that Tito's Yugoslavia proves Soviet control over Eastern Europe was fundamentally fragile rather than secure.
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Evaluate the claim that everyday life for ordinary people changed more dramatically in the East than in the West during the Cold War in Europe.
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Evaluate the claim that Stalin bears the primary responsibility for the breakdown of the wartime alliance between 1945 and 1949.
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Evaluate the claim that Soviet reform under Gorbachev, rather than internal East German protest, was the decisive factor in bringing about German reunification by October 1990.
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To what extent do you agree that Stalin's control over Eastern Europe after 1945 was driven more by security fears than by ideological conviction?
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To what extent do you agree that Western Europe's relationship with the United States between 1945 and 1989 was one of steadily deepening dependence rather than a genuinely changing relationship?
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Which EU institution runs the euro, the shared currency adopted by most member states from 1999/2002?
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What did the Truman Doctrine (March 1947) commit the United States to doing?
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Which event directly convinced Western leaders that the USSR was expansionist and led to the founding of NATO in April 1949?
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