Booklet 1

Question 1

Displaced person

Answer 1

A person who is forced to leave their home country because of war or persecution

Question 2

UNDHR

Answer 2

The universal declaration of human rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations in 1948 in Paris

Question 3

Cold War

Answer 3

A state of political hostility between countries characterised by threats, propoganda and other measures short of open warfare

Question 4

Yalta confernece

Answer 4

The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the big three the USSR, America and England in February 1945 in Russia as World War II was winding down.

Question 5

Potsdam conference

Answer 5

The Potsdam Conference, 1945. Is where the big three leader USSR, America and England met in Potsdam, Germany, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.

Question 6

Iron curtain

Answer 6

A notional barrier separating the former soviet bloc and the west, prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in Eastern Europe in 1989

Question 7

Berlin blockade

Answer 7

The Berlin blockade was where the Soviet Union blocked the western allies’ railways, roads and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control from 1948-1949

Question 8

Berlin airlift

Answer 8

When the capitalist west got planes to deliver supplies as a counter to the Berlin blockade in 1948-1949