(3) events of the Cold War

(4) causes of World War II

37 After World War II, the Soviet Union maintained

control of many Eastern European nations

mainly because these nations were

(1) a source of new technology and skilled labor

(2) near warm-water ports on the Mediterranean Sea

(4) members of the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO)
June 2003

42 During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the

democracies in the West competed for influence

in the Middle East because of its

(2) vast fertile farmlands and rivers

(3) large well-educated population

(4) industrial potential

43 Which statement about the spread of nuclear

weapons is a fact rather than an opinion?

(1) Nations possessing nuclear weapons should

not have to limit the production of weapons.

(2) The spread of nuclear weapons was a smaller

problem in the 1990s than it was in the 1970s.