24. THE OPENING OF THE COLD WAR, 1945

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 24.1 Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 24.1: Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What does Henry Wallace ultimately hope to see between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Nuclear war

Open trade

Military alliance

Arms race

2. According to Wallace, why do many small but increasingly powerful nations hope to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union?

To begin nuclear war

To bring about cost of life

To watch their mutual destruction

To distract attention away from themselves

3. How does Henry Wallace feel about the differences in opinion between Soviet and American politics?

Differences were fine as long as there is no interference into one another’s sphere

Communism should not be allowed to exist or spread anywhere in the world

All nations should be democratic even if it requires force to implement

Each nation should consider adopting the strengths of the other

4. Within the context of the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, what arguments existed to contradict the diplomatic perspective of Wallace?

House Un-American Activities Committee

Communist desire for world domination

Mutually assured destruction and nuclear war

The Marshall Plan and NATO

5. How successful was Wallace in implementing his ideas for foreign policy in the early years of the Cold War?

not at all effective

fully successful

limited success

complete opposition

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