How was Potsdam different than the previous wartime conferences?

The leadership had changed for the US and UK.

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance by the Soviet Union.

What major disagreement during WWII would lead to the breakdown of the Grand Alliance?

Where and when a second front would open in Europe.

Why was Casablanca chosen as the meeting place for the Allies in 1943?

It was an expression of Allied confidence and victory in Africa.

What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What was the purpose of creating NATO in 1949?

Collective security in response to Soviet actions.

All of the following are major themes of George Kennan's Long Telegram except...

Poor economies in Europe would lead to the spread of capitalism.

What is Operation Vittles?

The plan to airlift supplies into Berlin during the blockade

Having nuclear weapons to discourage a nuclear attack.

Why did the US use pro-Soviet propaganda in the 1940s?

An alliance with the Soviets was formed.

All of the following are principle bodies of the United Nations except...

International Labor Organization

All of the following US policies increased tension with Japan pre WWII except...

Attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What was the Soviet Union's goal/new tendency after WWII?

Expansion into east Europe and proliferation of communism.

How did the Marshall Plan help to contain communism?

Giving economic aid in Europe made communism less desirable.

What action is responsible for the change in Soviet alliance during WWII?

Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

What was the focus of the Cairo conference?

How to deal with Japan & the Cairo Declaration was written

All of the following caused the Berlin Blockade except...

The creation of four separate currencies.

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1
How was Potsdam different than the previous wartime conferences?
The leadership had changed for the US and UK.
They determined they would accept conditions from Japan.
The war on all fronts had officially ended.
The Allied members were able to agree on self-determination.
2
What is COMECON?
Comic Convention held annually in San Diego, CA.
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance by the Soviet Union.
Allied Control Council between the US, UK, USSR, and France.
European Recovery Program from the US.
3
What major disagreement during WWII would lead to the breakdown of the Grand Alliance?
Where and when a second front would open in Europe.
How the Italians would be defeated.
Who the major Axis threat was in Europe.
Who would control the land in Germany after its defeat.
4
Why was Casablanca chosen as the meeting place for the Allies in 1943?
The Axis would never find them there.
It was an expression of Allied confidence and victory in Africa.
The Allies were discussing what to do with Africa.
It was the most accessible place during the war.
5
All of the following are members of the Grand Alliance except...
Great Britain
The Soviet Union
The United States
Poland
6
What does NATO stand for?
Nine Atlantic Treaties Operation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North American Trade Organization
North American Treaty Organization
7
What two nations did the Truman Doctrine target in the fight against communism?
Turkey and Yugoslavia
Poland and Greece
Soviet Union and Great Britain
Turkey and Greece
8
What was the purpose of creating NATO in 1949?
Demobilize all nations troops in Europe.
Provide economic assistance without accruing dept.
Create physical barriers between west Europe and the Soviets
Collective security in response to Soviet actions.
9
All of the following are major themes of George Kennan's Long Telegram except...
Losses in the war made Stalin volatile and unpredictable.
Communism and capitalism could not coexist in the world.
Poor economies in Europe would lead to the spread of capitalism.
Soviet expansion was necessary for security.
10
What is Operation Vittles?
The plan to airlift supplies into Berlin during the blockade
The plan to airlift supplies to the Soviet Union labor camps
The plan to blockade Western Europe with a massive wall.
The plan to blockade Berlin from the Soviet Union.
11
Which conference did the Allied leaders discuss the reorganization of Germany into zones?
Casablanca
Cairo
Tehran
Yalta
12
Which N.A. amendment allowed belligerents to borrow supplies and pay for them in the future?
Marshall Plan
Cash and Carry
Lend-Lease Act
Deterrence
13
What is deterrence?
Providing economic aid to prevent the spread of communism.
Having nuclear weapons to discourage a nuclear attack.
Complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
Policy of keeping communism where it already is.
14
Why did the US use pro-Soviet propaganda in the 1940s?
An alliance with the Soviets was formed.
US government adopted communist policies.
US government did not use pro-Soviet propaganda.
Their ally Britain was becoming communist.
15
All of the following are principle bodies of the United Nations except...
International Court of Justice
Security Council
International Labor Organization
General Assembly
16
All of the following US policies increased tension with Japan pre WWII except...
Freezing Japanese assets in the US.
Assisting China in its war against Japan.
Halting shipment of war materials.
Attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
17
What was the Soviet Union's goal/new tendency after WWII?
Rebuild infrastructure and economies in Europe.
Demobilization of troops and focus on policies in Japan.
Eradicate the US and communism from Europe.
Expansion into east Europe and proliferation of communism.
18
How did the Marshall Plan help to contain communism?
It gave Turkey and Greece money to fight communist regimes.
It gave the US economic aid to rebuild after WWII.
Giving economic aid in Europe made communism less desirable.
Giving aid to the Soviet Union promoted communist control.
19
What action is responsible for the change in Soviet alliance during WWII?
Italian failures in North Africa.
Entrance of the U.S. into the war.
Japanese imperialism in Southeast Asia.
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
20
Trizonia was a combination of the following occupation zones except...
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
21
What document divided eastern and southern Europe into spheres of influence?
Cairo Declaration
Lend-Lease Act
Nuremberg Trials
Percentages Agreement
22
Which conference first decided on the need for unconditional surrender and an invasion of Italy?
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
Casablanca
23
What was the focus of the Cairo conference?
The war against Germany and Italy in North Africa
How to deal with Japan & the Cairo Declaration was written
The Nuremberg Trials
A second front in Asia & Percentages Agreement was written
24
Which N.A. amendment allowed belligerents to buy supplies with cash and transport themselves?
Marshall Plan
Cash and Carry
Truman Doctrine
Lend-Lease Act
25
What laid the foundation for the creation of NATO?
Treaty of Versailles
Mutually Assured Destruction
Treaty of Brussels
The Truman Doctrine
26
All of the following caused the Berlin Blockade except...
The creation of four separate currencies.
The Treaty of Brussels
The Marshall Plan
The announcement of a unification of west Germany.

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