Origins of the Cold War: 1945 - 1949

Question 1

What is the real reason behind the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

rebuild war shattered economies to prevent communism

Question 2

Truman believed Kennan, as a result, he decided to create the policy of ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 3

What was Stalin determined to create in Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

communist satellite states

Question 4

The Big Three change from Yalta to Potsdam. What were the changes in the Big Three?

Accepted Answer

Potsdam had Atlee and Not Churchill

Question 5

How did Tito, the Yugoslavian leader, defy Stalin?

Accepted Answer

accepted aid from the west

Question 6

Who also will ultimately will benefit from the Marshall Plan

Accepted Answer

U.S.A.

Question 7

Eventually what occurred in 1949 in the occupied areas of Germany?

Accepted Answer

U.S.A. sphere and Soviet sphere turn into separate countries

Question 8

What was the American fear of Russia?

Accepted Answer

Soviets were trying to obtain world domination

Question 9

Potsdam Conference divided the wartime Allies into 2 hostile camps. The two issues arose were?

Accepted Answer

German question and Soviets in Eastern Europe

Question 10

What two countries avoided becoming “puppet state” of the communists.

Accepted Answer

Yugoslavia and Finland

Question 11

Conference that marks the beginning of the the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Yalta

Question 12

Union of all Communist parties in Eastern Europe

Accepted Answer

Cominform

Question 13

What is the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

massive American aid to Western Europe

Question 14

Country that was able to follow an independent course due to its own army liberating it.

Accepted Answer

Yugoslavia

Question 15

What did the western Allies and Russia have in common during World War Two?

Accepted Answer

Fighting Hitler

Question 16

What event did Stalin show his ruthless attitude towards Eastern Europe?

Accepted Answer

communist coup in Czechoslovakia

Question 17

To Stalin’s surprise the West does not give up on West Berlin. The west ...

Accepted Answer

flies in essential supplies

Question 18

What did the Soviets do in Eastern Germany?

Accepted Answer

stripped Germany of its industrial plants

Question 19

Why does the U.S.A. attitude change towards Russia?

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt dies

Question 20

In response to the Marshall Plan Stalin introduces the ___________________.

Accepted Answer

Cominform

Question 21

Why did the Soviets set up the Berlin Blockade?

Accepted Answer

the west introduced a new Deutsche mark currency

Question 22

George Kennan states in the “ Long Telegram” the Soviet objectives. What are they?

Accepted Answer

create as many communist countries as possible

Question 23

Why did the Eastern European countries reject the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

wrath of Stalin

Question 24

And what did the Soviets fear?

Accepted Answer

Invasion of their land

Question 25

At Potsdam what event changes the Wests thinking towards Russia?

Accepted Answer

no longer need support in Japan

Question 26

What was the evidence to support American's fear of the Soviets?

Accepted Answer

Soviet take over of Eastern Europe

Question 27

And the Soviet response to their fear?

Accepted Answer

create a buffer zone

Question 28

British sought the U.S.A ‘s help in protecting what three countries from a communist takeover?

Accepted Answer

Greece, Turkey, and Iran

Question 29

What evidence is there that the Grand Alliance would fail after WW2?

Accepted Answer

Mutual distrust and suspicion

Origins of the Cold War: 1945 - 1949

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