1. During WWII the U. S. and The U. S.S. R. were allies. But within a very short period of
time, the US and the USSR had become suspicious of each other. What reasons did the
United States have to be suspicious of the Russians following WWII? Ideology? Yalta?
How would the issuing of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan intensify tensions
between the two superpowers?
3. In 1948 the Berlin blockade caused tension between the US and the Russians. What
was the Berlin Blockade? How did the US counter the Berlin Blockade?
4. In 1962 the U. S. And the U. S.S. R. almost went to war in Cuba. Why? Why would the
United States be so concerned with Cuba?