Author Question: Soviet actions to counter the formation of NATO included a. the secret treaty with France, made ... (Read 53 times)

imowrer · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

In reviewing the origins of the Cold War, the text

a. remarked on the unusual nature of intense competition between two societies so heavily influenced by Western civilization.
b. supports the view of many revisionist historians that United States policies drove Stalin to adopt a hostile view of the West.
c. states that both nations were working within a framework conditioned by the past, from their different historical perspective and their irreconcilable political ambitions.
d. proposes the Cold War actually originated in East Asia.
e. blames the British Labour government for manipulating America into an anti-Soviet policy.

Question 2

Soviet actions to counter the formation of NATO included

a. the secret treaty with France, made in 1949 and publicized only in 1959, to share military alliance information in times of international stress caused by America.
b. the creation of the Warsaw Pact, which created a trade zone in eastern Europe.
c. the creation of the German Federal Republic in 1949.
d. the development of the Warsaw Pact as a military balance to NATO.
e. a treaty with Turkey and Greece guaranteeing their boundaries against attacks by Yugoslavia.