Origins of the Cold War

Which of these was Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's primary goal during negotiations with Britain and the United States at

Yalta and Potsdam?

• A. redrawing the map of Europe on the basis of self-determination

• B. punishing Germany by dividing it into four permanent occupation zones

• C. securing foreign aid from the United States to help rebuild the Soviet Union

• D. establishing a buffer zone of friendly communist states to protect the Soviet Union

In 1946, Bernard Baruch proposed a plan to the UN Atomic Energy Commission to ban future development of nuclear

weapons. Why did Soviet leaders reject this plan?

• A. They did not think any country had the right to build and use nuclear weapons.

• B. They wanted stricter controls on the materials used in making nuclear weapons.

• C. They felt they were being unfairly denied the right to develop their own nuclear weapons

• D. They believed stiffer sanctions were needed to stop the building of new nuclear weapons.

Which of these committed the United States to a foreign policy based on containment of communism?

• A. the Baruch Plan

• B. the Four Freedoms

• C. the Long Telegram

• D. the Truman Doctrine

What was the PRIMARY goal of the Marshall Plan?

• A. to gather information about Europe's economic resources

• B. to encourage economic integration among the nations of Europe

• C. to promote democracy in Europe by rebuilding war-torn economies

• D. to support a rapid transition in Europe to centrally planned economies

What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States like by the onset of the Cold War?

• A. They became overly competitive with international trade.

• B. They were distrustful and suspicious of one another.

• C. They built a strong alliance to help postwar Europe.

• D. They decided to be neutral in affairs with each other.

Communists regarded capitalism as unjust system that denied ___________ a fair share of society’s wealth.

• A. the oligarchs

• B. the bourgeoisie

• C. the proletariat

• D. the government

What was a key stipulation of the Yalta conference that Stalin ignored?

• A. the halting of development of atomic weapons

• B. the establishment of four different occupation zones in Berlin

• C. support for self-government and free elections in Eastern Europe

• D. All of the above

The term ___________ came to symbolize this growing barrier between East and West.

• A. United Nations

• B. Noncommunist

• C. Iron Curtain

• D. All of the above

The United States and the Soviet Union waged a war of ________ during the Cold War.

• A. words

• B. armed conflict

• C. nuclear destruction

• D. all of the above

What is the central symbol used in the cartoon?

• US arms

• USSR arms

• Atomic bomb