WorksheetsPost WWII
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
After the Korean War began, the United States embarked on a major
military buildup
treaty negotiation
economic expansion
expansion of foreign aid
President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 when MacArthur
failed to win the Korean War.
refused to carry out an invasion of China.
transmitted military secrets to the Soviet Union.
publicly criticized the president’s policy of limited war.
