Tensions within the Grand Alliance

Question 1 of 13

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Stalin was considering a secrate peace with Germany as late as when?

Select one of the following:

September 1943
October 1941
July 1942
December 1939

Explanation

Question 2 of 13

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Stalin suspected the Allies of letting Hitler destroy the Soviet Union with their decision not to invade until . by 1945 Million Russians had been killed. To protect against future German attack the USSR wanted to reclaim German and Polish land from beyond the river and to annex the states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and .

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Question 3 of 13

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by ❌ Stalin's vision for postwar Europe was divided in ❌:
Direct Soviet control of its immediate ❌ states ❌ and a ❌ zone of ❌.
an Intmideate zone with ❌ governments of Communists and ❌, and ❌ parties: ❌, and ❌.This would be the '❌' to a non-communist western europe.

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1944

three

buffer

Germany

coalition

liberal

socialist peasant

Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia

Finland

Bulgaria, Romania, Poland

Soviet

bridge

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Question 4 of 13

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The view that America was too busy fighting the war against Japan and Germany to worry about the shape of postwar Europe is typical of a revisionist historian in the 1960s and 1970s.

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Question 5 of 13

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argues that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on the th 19 made America feel vulnerable to threats of foreign powers. Consequently in US officials drew up plans for a chain of bases that would let the US control both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This would also give the US access to trade materials from and Asia. US actions alarmed and helped create a .

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Question 6 of 13

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FDRs economic ambitions of a large Free Trade area, where tariffs and economic nationilism were abolished was inspired by which president?

Select one of the following:

Woodrow Wilson
J Edgar Hoover
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
George Washington

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Question 7 of 13

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What did the US want of other countries in postwar Europe?

Select one or more of the following:

Decolanisation fo empires such as France and Britain
no more attempts for an Autarchic economy such as Germany and Italy
The abolition of high steel tariffs in Finland and the Baltic states
abolishment of protectionist Trade such as the Dutch and Portugese

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Question 8 of 13

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In 1941 FDR and Churchill drew up an ( Atlantic Charter, Atlantic Treaty, Atlantic agreement ), a democratic world order to be underpinned by ( the UN, NATO, SEATO ). FDR's vison was of an assembly were all countries would be represented and a ( security council, Executive Committee, Board of International Significance ) on which would sit, China, Britain, ( France, Brazil, South Africa ), America and Russia.

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Question 9 of 13

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What were Britain's Aims in 1944?

Select one or more of the following:

To emerge from the war still a great power with its empire intact.
To protect the Suez Canal through which Britain had acces to India and oil from the Middle East.
To see a democratic government in Warsaw as Britain had gone to war over Poland.
To enforce massive reparations on Germany for starting the War.
To dissolve the Empire and create a free trade area in the Commonwealth.
To export democracy to the Middle East and Asia.

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Question 10 of 13

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in the Foreign Ministers Meeting of October 1943 in Moscow, what was decided by the big three?

Select one or more of the following:

The European Advisory Commission: to finalize plans for postwar Germany.
The Declaration on General Security: to propose the creation of a world organisation to maintain peace and security (the UN)
The USSR informed Cordell Hull of Its intention to join the war against Japan
The Declaration on International Security: to propose the creation of a world organisation to maintain peace and security (the UN)
The European Advisory Commitee: to finalize plans for postwar Germany.
Britain informed Cordell Hull of Its intention to join the war against Japan

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Question 11 of 13

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At which conference did Churchill, FDR and Stalin meet to discuss the following points:
- The USSR claimed its intention to annex territory seized in the Baltic and Poland (Poland would be compensated with German land)
- The decision to land Commonwealth and US troops in France as opposed to in the Balkans as Churchill wanted
- acceptance that western powers would liberate western Europe and the USSR would liberate eastern Europe

Select one of the following:

Teheran Conference November 1943
Yalta Conference February 1945
Potsdam July 1945

Explanation

Question 12 of 13

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October 1944 - Churchill and Stalin meet in Moscow to propose a division of spheres of intrest.
Which of the following where Churchill and Stalin's Percentages agreements?

Select one or more of the following:

USSR 90% Romania
USSR 75% Bulgaria
Britain 90% Greece
50/50 yugaslavia and Hungary
USSR 90% Bulgaria
USSR 75% Romania
Britain 90% Yugoslavia
50/50 Czechoslovakia

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Question 13 of 13

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Churchill dropped the percentegese agreement because he knew FDR would not aprove it.

Select one of the following:

True
False

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Tensions within the Grand Alliance

Tensions within the Grand Alliance

Question 1 of 13

Stalin was considering a secrate peace with Germany as late as when?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 13

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 3 of 13

by ❌ Stalin's vision for postwar Europe was divided in ❌: Direct Soviet control of its immediate ❌ states ❌ and a ❌ zone of ❌. an Intmideate zone with ❌ governments of Communists and ❌, and ❌ parties: ❌, and ❌.This would be the '❌' to a non-communist western europe.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 4 of 13

The view that America was too busy fighting the war against Japan and Germany to worry about the shape of postwar Europe is typical of a revisionist historian in the 1960s and 1970s.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 13

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 6 of 13

FDRs economic ambitions of a large Free Trade area, where tariffs and economic nationilism were abolished was inspired by which president?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 13

What did the US want of other countries in postwar Europe?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 13

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 9 of 13

What were Britain's Aims in 1944?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 13

in the Foreign Ministers Meeting of October 1943 in Moscow, what was decided by the big three?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 13

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 13

October 1944 - Churchill and Stalin meet in Moscow to propose a division of spheres of intrest. Which of the following where Churchill and Stalin's Percentages agreements?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 13

Churchill dropped the percentegese agreement because he knew FDR would not aprove it.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

by ❌ Stalin's vision for postwar Europe was divided in ❌:
Direct Soviet control of its immediate ❌ states ❌ and a ❌ zone of ❌.
an Intmideate zone with ❌ governments of Communists and ❌, and ❌ parties: ❌, and ❌.This would be the '❌' to a non-communist western europe.

October 1944 - Churchill and Stalin meet in Moscow to propose a division of spheres of intrest.
Which of the following where Churchill and Stalin's Percentages agreements?