Reading Challenge
Ch. 38 – Origins of the Cold War/EQ: How did the United States and the Soviet Union become Cold War adversaries?
Reading Challenge
1.
Communism relies on what form of economic arrangement?
2.
What policy did Truman and Stalin argue over during the Potsdam Conference?
3.
Why did the United States suffer far less than other countries in the post-World War II years?
4.
What did Truman choose as his economic policy toward the Soviet Union?
5.
Nations that influence or control less powerful states are known as
6.
What was the main purpose of the American policy of containment?
7.
Why was the Soviet Union opposed to America's UN atomic energy proposal?
8.
What action by the Soviet Union initiated the first major postwar crisis?
9.
What did the Iron Curtain symbolize during the Cold War?
10. The dominating influence of one nation over another is called
11. How did the Soviet Union assume control over governments of Eastern European nations?
12. What development led to an aggressive change in American foreign policy?
13. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
14. What was the foreign policy assumption made by President Truman?
15. What did Truman believe was the best way to keep communism from spreading?
16. Why did communism gain appeal in Western nations such as France and Italy?
17. What was the name of America's foreign economic recovery strategy?
18. How did the United States plan to stop the spread of communism in Europe?
19. How was the Molotov Plan designed to aid Eastern European economic recovery?
20. Why was the hostility between America and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War?