Chapter 02

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

What contributed most to Republican acceptance of the Marshall Plan in the US?

a) The need for economic measures to discourage the spread of communism

b) The need to counter the Soviet interest in an East European economic bloc

c) Domestic concerns to maintain international economic co-operation

d) Marshall becoming Secretary of State

Which Soviet bloc country held free elections in November 1945?

a) Romania

b) Poland

c) Hungary

d) Czechoslovakia

Why was Stalin initially reluctant to aid the Communists in the Chinese Civil War once World War II ended?

a) To encourage the divisions within China.

b) To ensure that he would not alienate the Kuomintang.

c) He believed the communists would lose.

d) He feared alienating the Americans.

Whose visits to Japan were instrumental in implementing the Reverse Course?

a) Kennan and MacArthur

b) MacArthur and Marshall

c) Draper and Kennan

d) Marshall and Draper

Who suspended reparations from the western zones of Germany in May 1946?

a) General Eisenhower

b) Winston Churchill

c) Clement Attlee

d) General Clay

What important proposal emanated from the March 1948 London Conference?

a) The fusion of the Western zones in Germany

b) The introduction of a new currency in the Western zones of Germany

c) The incorporation of the Western zones within the European Recovery Programme

d) The permanent settlement of the frontier between Germany and Poland