Chapter 2 Self-test questions

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

The need for economic measures to discourage the spread of communism correct incorrect

The need to counter the Soviet interest in an East European economic bloc correct incorrect

Domestic concerns to maintain international economic co-operation correct incorrect

Marshall becoming Secretary of State correct incorrect

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. Which Soviet bloc country held free elections in November 1945?

Romania correct incorrect

Poland correct incorrect

Hungary correct incorrect

Czechoslovakia correct incorrect

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

To encourage the divisions within China. correct incorrect

To ensure that he would not alienate the Kuomintang. correct incorrect

He believed the communists would lose. correct incorrect

He feared alienating the Americans. correct incorrect

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

Kennan and MacArthur correct incorrect

MacArthur and Marshall correct incorrect

Draper and Kennan correct incorrect

Marshall and Draper correct incorrect

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

General Eisenhower correct incorrect

Winston Churchill correct incorrect

Clement Attlee correct incorrect

General Clay correct incorrect

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. What important proposal emanated from the March 1948 London Conference?

The fusion of the Western zones in Germany correct incorrect

The introduction of a new currency in the Western zones of Germany correct incorrect

The incorporation of the Western zones within the European Recovery Programme correct incorrect

The permanent settlement of the frontier between Germany and Poland correct incorrect