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Question 1

Which best describes why Stalin believed that having satellite states would help prevent future wars?

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These countries would be indebted to and protect the Soviet Union.

Question 2

How did the Soviet style of government differ from American democracy?

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It was led by a dictator.

Question 3

How did the Soviet Union try to ensure that satellite states would follow its policies?

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It controlled local communist governments.

Question 4

Why did people within the Eastern Bloc have few economic freedoms?

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The government controlled the economy.

Question 5

Which best describes why the Soviet Union established buffer states around its borders?

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to protect itself from direct invasion

Question 6

What was the Iron Curtain?

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a term for the divide that isolated the East

Question 7

Which of these countries were part of the Eastern Bloc? Choose four correct answers.

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Poland; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Romania

Question 8

Which best describes why the United States tried to strengthen democracy on a global scale during the Cold War?

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to achieve cooperation and security

Question 9

The division of Berlin mirrored the division of Germany because it was divided between

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a democratic west and a communist east.

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