UNIT 4: Who's to blame for the Cold War?

Question 1

Stalin set up the Communist Information Bureau to coordinate other communist countries. A.K.A?

Accepted Answer

Cominform

Question 2

In the aftermath of the Berlin Blockade two power blocs were created known as...

Accepted Answer

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Question 3

At Yalta the only real disagreement was about...

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 4

What prevented the USA and USSR from falling out before 1945?

Accepted Answer

The War, Hitler

Question 5

The Marshall Plan and Marshall Aid was unpopular with most Americans because...

Accepted Answer

It would cost the taxpayer $17 billion.

Question 6

In 1948, Stalin began to blockade Berlin because...

Accepted Answer

He hoped to gain the upper hand., He hoped to push the Western Allies out of East Germany

Question 7

Which two countries asked for help from Truman and the West in 1947?

Accepted Answer

Greece and Turkey

Question 8

During the Potsdam Conference, the victorious countries mostly disagreed because......

Accepted Answer

America had a new president and an atomic bomb, Hitler had been killed

Question 9

Churchill described the boarder between the communist east and capitalist west as...

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 10

After the Second World War both the USA and USSR emerged as.....

Accepted Answer

Super Powers

Question 11

American intervention in Greece marked a new era in the USA's attitudes. Now known as...

Accepted Answer

The Truman Doctrine

Question 12

The Marshall Plan was...

Accepted Answer

A plan to rebuild the countries of Europe after WWII, Plan to use funds to prevent countries falling to Communism

Question 13

At the Yalta Conference (Feb, 1945) the allies mostly...

Accepted Answer

agreed

Question 14

Stalin's plan eventually failed because...

Accepted Answer

The USA launched the Berlin Airlift

Question 15

Why were both Churchill and Roosevelt fearful of the USSR?

Accepted Answer

They were Communist

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