1940's-50's Cold War Review

At the end of World War II, which country had the highest death toll?

• United States

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• Japan

Which country was the economic leader after WW II & had already doubled production during the war?

• Soviet Union

• United States

• Great Britain

• China

What World War II document were the US postwar goals based on?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Atlantic Charter

• Dollar Diplomacy

What did the Atlantic Charter state concerning spheres of influence?

• aggressively create them

• contain them

• eliminate them

• maintain them

What term did Churchill give to describe the Eastern Bloc countries under Soviet control?

• Satellites

• Iron Curtain

• Red Square

• McCarthyism

Because Truman believed that Stalin had broken the Yalta Agreement, what aid program did he cut from the USSR?

• Marshall Plan

• Molotov Plan

• US Economic Recovery Aid Program

• Lend-Lease Act

The shared occupation of what country caused major friction between the Soviets & its former allies?

• Japan

• Germany

• Italy

• Poland

When the Soviets tried to force their former allies out of Berlin, how did the US & the allies break the Berlin blockade?

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Bombing

• Berlin Airlift

• Truman Doctrine

What countries were the superpowers after World War II?

• Germany & Japan

• Great Britain & France

• US & USSR

• China & US

Who was President of the United States at the beginning of the Cold War? (1945-52)

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Joseph McCarthy