Post-WWII American History

By 1945 what did President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers think was the key to keeping the world at peace?

• Economic growth

• Military strength

• A strong United Nations

• A willingness to compromise

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and

• Italy

• Switzerland

• Canada

• France

Among the major causes of the Cold War were arguments between the United States and the Soviet Union over reparations and

• Control of Japan

• The use of the atomic bomb

• Economic policy in Germany

• Immigration to the United States

The presence of the Soviet army in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II ensured that _________________________ would be established in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

• A system for free elections

• Pro-Soviet Communist governments

• A system for reparations

• Heavily industrialized economies

In 1946 Turkey demanded joint control of the straits of the Dardanelles with the Soviet Union.

• Tue

• False

By agreeing to come to the aid of any member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that was attacked, the United States committed itself for the first time in its history to maintaining peace in Europe.

• True

• False

In June 1950, North Korean troops invaded the south, rapidly driving back the poorly equipped South Korean forces.

• True

• False

During the Korean War, the Communist Chinese government saw the United Nations troops in North Korea as a threat, but the Chinese military did not enter the war.

• True

• False

When the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones of Germany in 1948, the Soviet Union responded by

• threatening to declare war.

• trying to undermine Germany’s economy.

• blockading West Berlin.

• organizing a military alliance.

President Harry Truman saw the Communist invasion of South Korea as a test of the _________________________ and ordered U.S. naval and air power into action.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• containment policy

• NATO alliance