The following quiz is presented for free use by students and teachers and was created by myself in my years teaching high school.
What were relations like between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war? (808)
2.Describe Soviet Communism (809)
3.Describe American Capitalism.
4.What events in WW2 hurt relations between the USSR and the US?
5.What was the United Nations?
6.How many nations signed the charter to create it?
7.Why did America not have much trust in Truman at first during his presidency?
8.Who were the “Big 3” at the Potsdam Conference? (810)
9.What promise had Stalin made at Yalta that he did not keep?
10.What two goals of the US brought it at odds with the USSR?
11.What is a satellite nation? (811)
12.What nations became satellite nations?
13.What did Stalin declare in 1946?
14.What was the policy of containment?
15.What was the iron curtain?
16.What is a cold war? (812)
17.How long did the cold war dominate US foreign policy?
18.Why was Great Britain unable to help Greece and Turkey?
19.What was the Truman Doctrine?
20.How much money did the US send to Turkey and Greece between 1947 and 1950?
21.What was the condition of Western Europe after the war?
22.What happened in the winter of 1947?
23.What was the Marshall Plan?
24.How much money was sent to Western Europe over 4 years?
25.How many countries were aided?
26.What was the conflict over Germany? (813)
27.What did Stalin do in 1948 that threatened Berlin?
28.Describe the Berlin Airlift?
29.What was the outcome of the airlift?
30.What two countries were created out of Germany? (814)
31.What is Nato?
32.What nations belong to it?
33.What countries joined in 1952 and 1955?
34.What type of standing army did NATO keep?
35.Who was in control of China in the 1940’s? (815)
36.How did American views of Kai-shek differ from the governments?
37.What did a new tax in China do to the cost of rice?
38.Who led the Communist party in China?
39.Why did the Communists appeal to the peasants?
John Daniels is a former High School teacher turned computer technician. He has over 6 years of experience in the field and operates a site that gives daily tech tips at www.broketech.com It is part of the John W. Daniels network at www.johnwdaniels.com.
