The Cold War Begins!

Towards the end of World War II, what countries were known as The BIG THREE?

• U.S., Germany, Japan

• U.S., Great Britain, U.S.S.R.

• U.S., Great Britain, Italy

• U.S., U.S.S.R., France

What was the main goal of the Big Three at the Potsdam and Yalta Conferences?

• To discuss a strategy for winning the war and shaping the world after the war ended

• To figure out how the Nazi government carried out the Holocaust

• To make Germany pay large reparations for the damages done during the war.

• To punish people who went along with the Nazis.

The ruler of the Soviet Union at the end of World War II was:

• Lenin

• Roosevelt

• Stalin

• Chamberlain

Stalin wanted control over the countries in _______________________, to serve as a buffer between the U.S.S.R. and Western Europe.

• Northern Africa

• East Asia

• the Ottoman Empire

• Eastern Europe

What is the "Iron Curtain"?

• A large barrier that separated the Allied occupation zones in Germany

• a metaphor for the divide between Eastern and Western Europe that developed in the beginning of the Cold War

• A physical wall that prevented people from leaving the U.S.S.R.

Countries in Eastern Europe became know as ___________ states; meaning that they were militarily, politically and economically dominated by a much more powerful nation (the U.S.S.R.)

• annexed

• satellite

• super

• tributary

What was the purpose of the U.S. program called the "Marshall Plan"?

• To bring the Nazi officials to trial for their crimes against humanity

• To make a lasting peace agreement with the U.S.S.R.

• To help countries in Europe recover from World War II

• To divide Germany into different occupation zones

All of the following were places that the Big Three held peace conferences towards the end of WWII EXCEPT

• Tehran

• Potsdam

• New York

• Yalta

What type of political and economic system did the Soviet Union have?

• communism

• capitalism

• democracy

• fascism

Towards the end of World War II, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. began to distrust each other and feared each other's dominance in the world; this developed into the period known as the ______________________.

• Age of Conflict

• Crisis of Democracy

• Cold War

• Age of Terrorism