The Cold War — IGCSE History (0470) questions by topic
Superpower rivalry spans decades in this content: identifying Cominform, describing the Berlin Wall's impact on East Berliners, explaining the Greek Civil War, and defining Vietnamisation all draw on separate flashpoints across the Cold War period.
Explain, describe, how-far, state and assess lead the command words, worth 20 marks throughout this set of 12 questions from 2023 to 2025 papers. Because state and describe questions want concise factual answers while assess and how-far want a weighed judgement, practise recognising which register each command word signals before writing, then use instant marking to check whether a short factual answer stayed appropriately brief.
May–June 2025, Paper 11
Describe the part played by China in the Korean War.
Answer this question and get it marked →Describe the impact the Berlin Wall had on the people of East Berlin.
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 12
Attempts by the United States to stop communism spreading were sometimes successful. What happened in the Tet Offensive?
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 13
What was agreed at Yalta about Eastern Europe?
Answer this question and get it marked →February–March 2024, Paper 12
In the years after the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union grew more suspicious of each other. What was Cominform?
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 12
There was much tension in the early years of the Cold War. What happened in the Greek Civil War?
Answer this question and get it marked →Soviet power in Eastern Europe eventually collapsed. Who was Alexander Dubček?
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 13
The years after the Second World War saw the beginnings of the Cold War. Describe developments in Czechoslovakia in the years from 1945 to 1948.
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 13
In the years after the Second World War, the United States and the USSR did not agree about everything. What was agreed at Yalta about the future of Poland?
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 11
What was Truman's attitude to the North's invasion of South Korea?
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 13
The wartime alliance broke down quickly at the end of the war. What agreements about Germany were made at the Potsdam Conference?
Answer this question and get it marked →