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Junior Cycle History: The Cold War

How often The Cold War comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

The Cold War, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on The Cold War.

(a)In 1946 Churchill said an iron curtain had come down across Europe. What did he mean?
  1. A new wall was built around Berlin
  2. Europe was split into East and West
  3. Britain had closed its ports to trade
(b)US aid to rebuild Western Europe under the Marshall Plan (1947) was part of which Cold War policy?
  1. Appeasement
  2. Détente
  3. Containment
(c)In 1962 the world came close to nuclear war when the USSR placed missiles in…
  1. Cuba
  2. Berlin
  3. Vietnam
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(a) Europe was split into East and West

(b) Containment

(c) Cuba

Your turn: Common Level questions on The Cold War.

Common Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q7
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More The Cold War questions

The Cold War, 3 marks

Why did neither superpower launch a nuclear attack on the other during the Cold War?

  1. Neither side had working nuclear bombs
  2. The UN had banned all nuclear weapons
  3. Each would be destroyed in return
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Each would be destroyed in return

This was MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction: a first strike would bring a deadly counter-strike. Fear of MAD kept the Cold War from turning into a nuclear war.

The Cold War, 3 marks

Which of these is an example of détente between the superpowers?

  1. The building of the Berlin Wall
  2. The SALT I arms deal of 1972
  3. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
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The SALT I arms deal of 1972

Détente means an easing of tension. In the 1970s the USA and USSR agreed limits on nuclear weapons and increased trade, before relations worsened again around 1979.

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