The Soviet Union and the United States Were at Odds

question 24

Multiple Choice

The Soviet Union and the United States were at odds over many things during the post-World War II era, but the issue that led to the most dramatic confrontation between the two occurred when

• A) the United States introduced a new currency, the deutsche mark, into West Germany, thus financially separating East Germany from West Germany, to East Germany's detriment.
• B) Stalin attempted to get the Allies to leave West Berlin in 1948 by imposing a blockade that denied ground access to the city, and the Americans had to carry out a long-running airlift of supplies.
• C) the Soviet Union began in late 1945 to impose satellite governments throughout the countries of eastern Europe.
• D) the Soviets accused, with reason, the Allies of refusing to honor wartime commitments to share West German resources with them, to serve as war reparations.
• E) the West chose to ignore earlier plans to hunt down Nazis and bring them to justice, choosing instead to build up German protections in hopes of keeping communism from spreading.

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