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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In May 1955, the USSR formed the Warsaw Pact within days of which event?
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What was the main economic effect of COMECON's system of 'unequal exchange' on Eastern Bloc states?
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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 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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Which EU institution runs the euro, the shared currency adopted by most member states from 1999/2002?
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At the Yalta Conference (February 1945), what did the 'Big Three' agree regarding Eastern Europe?
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What did the Truman Doctrine (March 1947) commit the United States to doing?
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Which country's debt crisis, developing from 2009, became the clearest example of the risks of sharing a currency without shared budgets?
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Why did Stalin order the Berlin Blockade in June 1948?
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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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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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Which two countries were bound together economically and politically through the 1957 Treaty of Rome, with the explicit political goal of making a third war between them unthinkable?
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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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