L38: Origins of the Cold War

Which of these was Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's primary goal during negotiations with Britain and the United States at Yalta and Potsdam?

• redrawing the map of Europe on the basis of self-determination

• punishing Germany by dividing it into four permanent occupation zones

• securing foreign aid from the United States to help rebuild the Soviet Union

• establishing a buffer zone of friendly communist states to protect the Soviet Union

In 1946, Bernard Baruch proposed a plan to the UN Atomic Energy Commission to ban future development of nuclear weapons. Why did Soviet leaders reject this plan?

• They did not think any country had the right to build and use nuclear weapons.

• They wanted stricter controls on the materials used in making nuclear weapons.

• They felt they were being unfairly denied the right to develop their own nuclear weapons.

• They believed stiffer sanctions were needed to stop the building of new nuclear weapons.

The statement below was made by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. What was he referring to in this statement?

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

• the growing Soviet domination of Eastern Europe

• the spread of hunger and disease in Western Europe

• the desperate economic conditions in Eastern Europe

• the expanding influence of communists in Western Europe

Which of these committed the United States to a foreign policy based on containment of communism?

• the Baruch Plan

• the Four Freedoms

• the Long Telegram

• the Truman Doctrine

Which of these was the PRIMARY goal of the Marshall Plan?

• to gather information about Europe's economic resources

• to encourage economic integration among the nations of Europe

• to promote democracy in Europe by rebuilding war-torn economies

• to support a rapid transition in Europe to centrally planned economies

The Soviet Union created the Molotov Plan to compete with the United States’ Marshall Plan in 1949 because they believed the U.S. plan would

• result in war in Eastern Europe.

• turn other nations against them.

• fund nuclear weapon development.

• enable U.S. influence in Western Europe.

What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States like by the onset of the Cold War?

• They became overly competitive with international trade.

• They were distrustful and suspicious of one another.

• They built a strong alliance to help postwar Europe.

• They decided to be neutral in affairs with each other.

Which of the following U.S. policies in the early Cold War period listed below may have been considered “U.S. aggressions” toward the USSR?

• Molotov Plan

• USIA radio broadcasts

• Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

• all of the above

Communists regarded capitalism as unjust system that denied ________ a fair share of society’s wealth.

• the oligarchs

• the bourgeoisie

• the proletariat
• the government

What was a key stipulation of the Yalta conference that Stalin ignored?

• the halting of development of atomic weapons

• the establishment of four different occupation zones in Berlin

• support for self-government and free elections in Eastern Europe

• all of the above