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