Regarding the Origins of the Cold War, the Text Notes

question 76

Multiple Choice

Regarding the origins of the Cold War, the text notes that

• A) in the 1950s most historians blamed an inexperienced Harry Truman.
• B) the new revisionists of the 1960's argued that both sides were equally responsible.
• C) Stalin's antagonisms to the West long predated the policy of containment.
• D) Winston Churchill's angry "Iron Curtain" speech initiated the conflict.
• E) it did not begin until after Stalin's death and with the coming to power of Nikita Khrushchev.