Origins of the Cold War Review

The Yalta agreement that eastern Europe's post-WWII elections would be "free" and "democratic" was known as

• Truman Doctrine

• Declaration of the United Nations' High Commission

• Inter-Allied Agreement on Human Rights

• Declaration of Liberated Europe

President _________, who became president in 1945, took a harder line on negotiations with the Soviet Union than his predecessor.

T/F: The Kennan Telegram rejected the premise of the Truman Doctrine, as it advocated for reconciliation and cooperation with the Soviet Union.

• True

• False

When did the Soviet Union successfully test an atomic bomb?

• 1945

• 1946

• 1949

• 1953

One of Britain's primary aims for post-war Europe was to...

• Form a European economic supranational organization

• Establish a democratic government in Poland

• Consolidate western opposition to communist East Europe

• Extract reparations from Germany and use Germans for slave labor

What do historians typically consider the beginning of the Cold War?

• The formation of the Grand Alliance

• The building of the Berlin Wall

• The issuing of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

• The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb

_______ was formed as a military alliance against the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc. (Abbreviations are fine)

Which event prompted the Soviet Union to join the Allied Powers?

• The negotiations made at the Tehran Conference

• The bombing of Dresden

• The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

• The German invasion of the Soviet Union

The unification of British and American zones in western Germany was known as __________

• The GDR

• the Allied Control Commission

• the Iron Curtain

• Bizonia

T/F: When the decision was made to land Allied troops in France in 1944, rather than the Balkans, it virtually gave Stalin free reign over eastern Europe.

• True

• False