Origins of the Cold War Flashcard

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The origins of the Cold War lay in fundamental disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in

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Eastern Europe

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The responsibility for starting the Cold War rests with the

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United States and the Soviet Union

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When the Soviet Union denied the United States, France and Britain access to Berlin in 1948, Truman responded by

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Organizing a massive airlift of supplies to Berlin

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President Truman’s Marshall Plan called for

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Substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe

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President Truman relieved General MacArthur from command of the United Nations troops in Korea when

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MacArthur began to take issue publicly with presidential policies and argued to use the atomic bomb against China

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In response to the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union

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Created the Warsaw Pact

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Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) charged numerous Hollywood figures with

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Spying for the Soviet Union

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What was the outcome of the Korean War?

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Korea remained divided at almost the exactly the same place as before the war

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As a result of the Korean War, the United States succeeded in

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Keeping South Korea free of communism

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What was one goal of the Marshall Plan?

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To create stable democracies that could resist Communism