OCR – AS GCE European and World History Period Studies F 962

Unit 1 The Cold War in Europe from 1945 to the 1990s

Additional Sample Questions


  1. To what extent was the USSR responsible for the development of the Cold War in Europe in the period 1945 to 1949?
  2. How successfully did the USA contain the spread of communism in Europe from 1945?
  3. How successfully did the USSR control Eastern Europe during the 1950s and 1960s?
  4. Assess the reasons for the development of a new Cold War in Europe during the early 1980s.
  5. Assess the reasons for the decline of Soviet control over Eastern Europe during the 1980s.
  6. To what extent were disagreements at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 the main cause of the Cold War in Europe?
  7. Assess the reasons why the Cold War in Europe had ended by 1989.