Quiz 27

The international military tribunal organized by the four Allied powers to try the highest-ranking Nazi military and civilian leaders was held in the city of

Nuremberg

Which statement describes the consequence of Franklin D. Roosevelt's agreement with Joseph Stalin at the Teheran Conference that the British-American armies would launch a frontal assault on France?

Only Soviet troops would be responsible for liberating Eastern Europe

To receive Marshall Plan aid, European states were required to cooperate with another. This cooperation resulted in the creation of

Organization for European Economic Cooperation

How did Big Science foster the Green Revolution?

Research into agriculture greatly increased the world food supply and productivity per acre while using fewer workers

At the time of Yalta Conference in 1945, why was the position of the Soviet Union much stronger in negotiations with the United States and Great Britain?

The Soviet army already occupied much of Eastern Europe.

Breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-1949 resulted in

The creation of West Germany and East Germany

After the war, why did national governments quickly establish authority over questions of guilt and punishment for those who had collaborated with the Nazi regime?

Unofficial groups were seizing and executing alleged collaborators on their own.

According to the best estimates, about how many people died in the Second World War?

50 million

The Marshall Plan in 1947 was a response to

A Western Europe on the brink of economic collapse

Why was West Germany allowed to build an army after 1955?

An army would permit West Germany to assist in defending Europe from attack by the Soviet Union.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the basic objective of all Western European governments became

Economic growth

Advancements in military weaponry and the space race

Fostered a revolution in computer technology

Which statement accurately characterizes Great Britain and Scandinavia collectively between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s?

They created long-lasting "cradle-to-grave" welfare states

How did the Soviet Union and Eastern European Communist regimes treat displaced persons returning home from the West after the war?

As politically untrustworthy because of their exposure to Western society

After the failure of the Council of Europe to become a Europe-wide parliament, advocates of European unity embraced which kind of approach to being about continental unity?

Economic

Why did the Council of Europe fail to evolve into a European Parliament with sovereign rights?

Great Britain consistently opposed conceding any real political power and sovereignty to the council.

Which statement describes an accomplishment of the Marshall Plan?

It prevented economic collapse in post-WWII Western Europe