The Cold War Begins

What Conference met from July 17–August 2, 1945?

• Yalta Conference

• Berlin Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Tehran Conference

Which Allied leader broke his promise to allow elections in the lands that were freed and occupied at the end of WWII?

• Harry Truman

• Joseph Stalin

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Winston Churchill

Who were the Big Three at Yalta?

• Stalin, Truman and Churchill

• Stalin, Truman and Attlee

• Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

At Yalta, it proposed to split Germany into how many zones?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Which of the following was not a cause of disagreement at Potsdam?

• Bringing Nazi war criminals to trial

• Elections in Eastern Europe

• Reparations

How had Stalin broken a promise agreed at Yalta by the time Potsdam took place?

• He had not helped against Japan

• He had arrested many Polish non-communist leaders

• He had taken reparations from the Russian zone

• He had freed Nazi leaders.

What did Truman keep secret from Stalin at Potsdam?

• The invention of the atomic bomb

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Marshall Plan

Why did tension begin to develop among the Big Three Allied leaders immediately after WWII?

• They did not have the same religious and cultural beliefs.

• They did not share the same economic and political ideas.

• They refused to learn one another's language and customs.

• They did not want to use the same currency and trade practices.

Which one of the following countries was not part of the conferences?

• USA

• USSR

• GERMANY

• GREAT BRITAIN

At the Yalta Conference the three powers that met decided to ask two more nations to join them in founding an organization. Which one was it?

• The League of Nations

• The World Peace Organization

• The United Nations

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization