Origins of the Cold War Short Answer Exam
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| Don't worry the test will be easy. Just a few obstacles to overcome :) |
Please know the following (1-33) for Wednesday's exam:
Feel free to break up this list, share it with friends, and create study guides. That is why I numbered it.
- What are the capital cities of Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Austria
- What are Steps One to Five
- Know the following "key players": Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Attlee, Stalin, Molotov, Stimson, Marshall, Oppenheimer, Kennan
- What is the Grand Alliance, aka the Big Three
- Know the order of the major wartime conferences
- Know at least one major decision to come out of the Tehran Conference
- What country was invaded by Germany that started WWII?
- What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
- Who were the Axis powers?
- why did the Soviet Army stop outside of Warsaw?
- What was ONE priority of each of the Big Three going into Yalta?
- What were two major decisions reached at Yalta?
- What didn't Stalin do with Poland following Yalta?
- Know each of the major events between Yalta and Potsdam.
- What was ONE major disagreement at Potsdam?
- Other than ending the war, what was another reason the atomic bombs were used on Japan?
- What was ONE statement that shocked the British when Truman delivered the "12-Point" speech?
- What were TWO key main ideas from Keenan's "Long Telegram"?
- Where was the "Iron Curtain" speech delivered?
- What was Churchill's main point of the speech?
- What is ONE way that Stalin reacted to the speech?
- What countries were the focus of the U.S. with the Truman Doctrine?
- What new foreign policy did the Truman Doctrine embody?
- What is ONE reason the Truman Doctrine could be considered a turning point of the Cold War?
- What were the European conditions that led the creation of the Marshall Plan?
- What was ONE reason that politicians might OPPOSE the Marshall Plan? (MP)
- What is the official title of the Marshall Plan? (ERP)
- What were THREE countries under Staln's control that didn't take MP aid?
- What were FOUR Western European countries that did take MP aid?
- What communist country did take MP aid?
- What is ONE way Stalin reacted to the MP?
- What does COMECON stand for?
- What does COMINFORM stand for?
