CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR 1. The United States had free enterprise and democracy; the Soviet Union was based on a
communist economic system.
2. Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union through Eastern Europe.
3. Americans had the atomic bomb and the world's strongest economy; the Soviet Union had
the world's largest standing army.
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9. Which of the following complete the chart above?
A. Stalin promised free elections in Poland but failed to keep his pledge.
B. Eastem Europeans felt safer with pro-Soviet, communist governments.
C. Stalin and Truman openly attacked each other at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.
D. The Allies disagreed over whether Germany should be occupied.