Why Were American Diplomats Particularly Dismayed That the Soviets Had

question 15

Multiple Choice

Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government in Poland in 1945?

• A) U.S. forces had hoped to include Poland in the western European security pact that later became known at NATO.
• B) The Soviet Union had ruled Poland brutally prior to the war and was responsible for most of the killings that took place there in the war.
• C) Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.
• D) Americans feared that Soviet control of Poland would make it easier for the Red Army to capture and control all of Germany.

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