The Origins of the Cold War

Which organization was created at the end of WWII to prevent future world conflict?

• The League of Nations

• The General Assembly

• Congress

• The United Nations

This meeting occured in February of 1945 with the goal of planning a post war world.

• The Yalta Conference

• The Potsdam Conference

• The Versailles Conference

• The Black Sea Conference

This was an era of confrontation and competition between the Soviet Union and the Americans

• The Hot War

• WWII

• The Cold War

• The Cold Conflict

This political, social, and economic ideology's goal is structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social class.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• None of the above

Which event led to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

• WWI

• The Treaty of Versailles

• The Holocaust

• All of the above

Which promise did Stalin break from the Yalta Conference which led to rising tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.?

• He did not divide Germany

• He refused to acknowledge Truman as President of the U.S.

• He did not recognize the Declaration of Human Rights as valid

• He refused to hold free elections in Poland

At what meeting did Truman hint to Stalin that he had a powerful American weapon?

• Yalta Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Coral Sea Conference

• The Paris Peace Conference

This is the name given to the political and military barrier that isolated Soviet controlled counrtires in Eastern Europe

• The Iron Curtain

• The Berlin Wall

• The Great Wall

• The West Bloc

This was a process of preventing the expansion of hostile power

• Truman Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• The Iron Curtain

• The Containment Policy

The Truman Doctrine's goal was to aid those who worked to resist communism. What countries did they provide with aid?

• France

• Greece

• Turkey

• All of the Above