Which of the Following Appears to Have Led to the Cold

question 74

Multiple Choice

Which of the following appears to have led to the cold war in retrospect?

• A) Truman's refusal to adopt an antagonistic foreign policy and his ongoing efforts at collaboration with the Soviet Union
• B) ideological competition between democratic capitalism and totalitarian communism and their opposing views of what the postwar world should become
• C) the ongoing threat of Nazism following the Second World War around the globe, but most especially in the United States and the Soviet Union
• D) the lack of Russian casualties and invasions in Russia during the Second World War that left the nation more powerful than ever before
• E) the upholding of promises made at the Yalta Conference following the Second World War by all parties involved and the independence of Eastern European nations

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