Exam: 06.02 The Early Cold War (80%)
The diagram below shows the cause-and-effect relationship between two events: A cause and effect diagram has the Cause bubble filled with the text, Western Europe and United States form North Atlantic Treaty Organization. What should replace the question mark in the EFFECT bubble?
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The excerpt below is from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Source: United Nations This quote from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights echoes what founding document?
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The map below shows Germany divided into four quadrants: An outline of Germany is divided into four sections with four different colors. Each section is designated with a letter. Section A is the Northwest, B is the Northeast, C is the Southwest, and D is the Southeast. Which sections shown in the map above merged together in 1948 to support democracy in Germany?
A, C, D
The diagram below describes the results of an event in the mid-1900s: A diagram has a box with a question mark and three other boxes leading from it. Box 1 reads, Assisted Europe's economic recovery. Box 2 reads, Made recipients grateful to United States. Box 3 reads, Boosted sales of American goods. What should replace the question mark in the box?
Benefits of the Marshall Plan
The political cartoon below was created in the mid-1900s: An illustrated poster show a fat, menacing Uncle Sam caricature holding cartons labeled eggs in the left hand. In the right is a document wrapped around a rifle with the bayonet extended. A young fit-looking man in worker's clothes is blocking the advance of Uncle Sam, standing in front of a large crowd of what appear to be working people. What action of the United States does the poster criticize from the Soviet point of view?
Marshall Plan
What made the Marshall Plan necessary to U.S. leaders?
NOT desire to implement an aid plan for Europe before the Soviets could
What event established the principle that individuals are accountable for their actions even during time of war?
Nuremberg Trials
With what is Mary McLeod Bethune associated?
She was the only African American woman at the United Nations Charter conference.
What resulted from Britain's inability to provide financial support for Greece and Turkey?
The United States offered financial support so those nations would not become communist.
How was the Truman Doctrine a departure from previous American foreign policy?
The United States turned away from its policy of isolationism.
How did the Soviets respond when France, Britain, and the United States combined their German zones of occupation into one nation?
They cut off access to West Berlin by blocking rail lines and roads.
The quote below was written by U.S. leader George Kennan: Now it lies in the nature of the mental world of the Soviet leaders, as well as in the character of their ideology, that no opposition to them can be officially recognized as having any merit or justification whatsoever. Such opposition can flow, in theory, only from the hostile and incorrigible forces of dying capitalism. Source: History Guide What does this quote justify?
U.S. foreign policy of containment
The quote below was written in the 1950s: [A]n iron curtain has descended across the Continent ... [F]amous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Source: History Guide With whom is this quote associated?
Winston Churchill
What term is used to describe the increase in military capability that the United States and Soviet Union experienced after World War II?
arms race
What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?
to force Nazi leaders to answer for war crimes