In Reviewing the Origins of the Cold War, the Text

question 46

Multiple Choice

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.

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