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INTERNATIONAL
The Cold War
33. The Big Four Conference to discuss German peace terms ended in disagreement—caused in part by Molotov's demand that:
1. Germany be exempt from reparations.
2. A strong centralized government be set up as a first step.
3. A 40-year Big Four alliance be signed at once.
4. All parties but the Communist be banned in Germany.
5. The Soviet zone be joined economically but not politically with the West.
34. Gathering their satellites at a Warsaw conference, Russian Communists set up an organization called the:
1. Pan-Marshall League.
2. Association for the Preservation of Real Democracy.
3. Cominform.
4. Fighters for Freedom.
5. League Against Imperialism.
35. Before the Marshall Plan could operate, the Reds did all but one of these:
1. Started riots in scores of towns in Italy.
2. Whipped up widespread strikes in France.
3. Executed the democratic opposition leader in Bulgaria.
4. Moved in to control the Peasant Party in Poland.
5. Organized anti-Semitic demonstrations and riots in the U.S.
36. Molotov, perhaps seeking to quiet grumblings inside Russia, brought cheers from a Moscow audience when he claimed that:
1. The atom bomb has "long since ceased to be a secret."
2. Russia's army was triple the size of America's.
3. Russians would be allowed to travel freely all over the world.
4. The Soviet Union was completely self-sufficient in all strategic materials.
5. Pools discovered in Siberia gave Russia the world's greatest oil resources.
37. "Protocol M," recently made public by the British, was:
1. The Russian Embassy's secret code word for the Marshall Plan.
2. A Red Army order to shut off American supplies for General Clay's Berlin headquarters.
3. A detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot.
4. The newly-discovered details of Russia's pre-war plan to divide Europe with Germany.
5. A textbook series distributed to schools in the Russian zone.
Peace Moves
38. Timely help for U.S. supporters of the Marshall Plan came from abroad when:
1. Britain and France scaled down their requirements for U.S. machinery.
2. Russia proposed to return war plants to western Europe.
3. Belgium and The Netherlands offered to turn over their ERP share to France.
4. British Foreign Secretary Bevin pledged to seek a customs union of Western European states.
5. The French devalued the franc.
39. It came as a surprise to many that the U.S. and Russia actually voted together in the U.N. to:
1. Admit Eire to membership.
2. Settle the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine by partitioning the Holy Land.
3. Bring ten major Italian war criminals to trial.
4. Hold the next Assembly meeting in Moscow.
5. Place Italian colonies under a U.N. mandate.
FOREIGN NEWS
Europe
40. A middle-of-the-road government broke the Red-led strikes in France by taking all but one of these steps:
1. Passing a stringent strike-control law.
2. Calling 80,000 reservists into the Army.
3. Giving workers a cost-of-living bonus.
4. Arresting 1,000 on sabotage