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Ready-made sets of AQA A-Level Cold War flashcards rarely line up with the specific events, dates and interpretations your teacher covers, so the most useful cards come from your own material. DeckOwl reads your class notes, slides or photos of pages and turns them into cards you can review with spaced repetition.

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Example AQA A-Level Cold War flashcards

What was the Truman Doctrine?A 1947 US policy pledging support to countries resisting communism, used to justify aid to Greece and Turkey.

What was the Marshall Plan?A 1948 US economic aid programme to rebuild Western Europe, which the Soviet Union and its allies refused to join.

What did the Berlin Blockade (1948–49) involve?Soviet cut-off of land routes to West Berlin, met by a Western airlift of supplies until Stalin lifted the blockade in May 1949.

What was the Warsaw Pact?A 1955 military alliance of Soviet bloc states, formed in response to West Germany joining NATO.

What did SALT I (1972) agree?A US–USSR limit on anti-ballistic missile systems and a five-year freeze on certain strategic missile numbers.

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What should a Cold War flashcard answer cover for AQA A-Level?

Keep each answer to one event, cause or consequence, and include the date and the key figure involved. Ask why something happened as well as what happened, since the exam rewards explanation.

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