The Cold War and the Potsdam Conference Quiz

Who was the American president bound for Europe in July 1945?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

At the Potsdam Conference, who was determined to dominate all of Europe and impose communism on its Nations?

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Woodrow Wilson

Who was the Russian ruler overthrown in February 1917?

• Karl Marx

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Nicholas II

Who was the German philosopher whose beliefs inspired Vladimir Lenin's revolution?

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Friedrich Engels

• John Locke

Which US president sent troops to fight against the Bolshevik government in Russia in 1919?

• Calvin Coolidge

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

What was the name of the world's first nuclear explosion produced by the Manhattan Project?

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Desert Storm

• Trinity Test

Which city was destroyed by the American atomic bomb during World War II?

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Osaka

• Hiroshima

What did Stalin learn when the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by the American bomb?

• The weakness of the American military

• The existence of the Manhattan Project

• The plans for the Potsdam Conference

• The development of the Russian bomb

What did President Truman give his final go-ahead to drop on Japan?

• Chemical weapon

• Biological weapon

• Nuclear bomb

• Conventional bomb

What was the tone of the Potsdam Conference according to a British diplomat?

• Amicable

• Cordial

• Tense

• Friendly