The post-WWII years (1945-1950)

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What was one major goal of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War?

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to create a defensive buffer zone in Eastern Europe

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Use the quote in the picture to answer the following.

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The Long Telegram George Kennan

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What did Winston Churchill say after the Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe?

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An Iron Curtain had descended over Europe

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What made Berlin tricky after World War II?

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West Berlin was controlled by the Allies, but it was in the middle of East Germany.

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Group that Stalin supported in Poland to run the government.

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Lublin Poles

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Stalin's fear of another invasion from the West

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Barbarossa Syndrome

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What speech discusses the outcomes of the First and Second World Wars and the vitality of the Soviet social system?

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Stalin's Election Speech

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Stalin wanted to shift Poland's borders to the west for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: He wanted to compensate the Poles for the terrible losses they had suffered during WWII, He felt that Russia was entitled to the land in Eastern Poland that it had lost after WWI, He wanted to create more of a buffer zone between the USSR and Germany, He wanted to be able to promise Poland to protect their Western border with Germany (and thus maintain troops in Poland)

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He wanted to compensate the Poles for the terrible losses they had suffered during WWII

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All of the following were "illusional assumptions" made by Stalin regarding the postwar world EXCEPT: the US would remove its military from Europe and return to its isolationist tendencies, The West would assist in the postwar reconstruction of the USSR, The US would want to quickly rebuild the economies of Germany and Japan, The relationship between the US and Great Britain would quickly deteriorate

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The US would want to quickly rebuild the economies of Germany and Japan

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The idea that the US would use its monopoly of atomic power to force concessions or to alter agreements with the Soviet Union.

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atomic blackmail