American History 14- 15

Where did the allies finalize their postwar plans for Germany?

• Potsdam Conference

• Yalta Conference

This is a picture of the leaders of the "Big Three," the leaders of the Soviet Union, United States, and Great Britain. Who were they?

• Chamberlain, Truman, and Stalin

• Stalin, Churchill, and Truman

• FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

• FDR, Truman, Stalin

Communism relies on what form of economic arragement?

• capitalism

• open markets

• laissez-faire

• Collectivism

What was the main purpose of the American policy of Containment?

• reducing the number of nuclear missiles in the Soviet Arsenal

• establishing a military presence to respond to Soviet advances

• developing strict boundaries for newly formed European nations

• restricting the Soviet Union from expanding outside its borders

What was the name of America's foreign economic recovery strategy?

• Molotov Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Containment Plan

How did the United States plan to stop the spread of communism in Europe?

• Increasing American military presence across the Iron Curtain in Europe

• threatening to apply its nuclear arsenal if the Soviet Union kept expanding

• Offering international loans that could only be spent on American goods.

• aggressively imposing economic sanctions on any communist-based economy

What development led to an aggressive change in American foreign policy?

• Soviet government refusing to leave Iran

• Socialist uprisings across Northern Africa

• Communist pressure in Greece and Turkey

• Stalin's meetings with the Mexican government

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

What war did the Cold War follow?

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Spanish-American War

• Civil War

The Soviet Union countered NATO by creating

• Soviet Union
• SATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Eastern Bloc