Question

At the Potsdam Conference, Stalin pressured Harry Truman and Winston Churchill for
Answer

an economic policy that enabled the USSR to be financially free from the Allies.

weapons of mass destruction to protect the USSR from Germany and France.

land in Eastern Europe as repayment for his country's role in the Allied victory.

assistance in plotting how to eliminate Hitler in order to move ahead quickly.

Answer 1

This one is tricky because two of the answers seem possible, but I would probably lean more towards "an economic policy that enabled the USSR to be financially free from the Allies".

The reason for this is that the Soviet Union needed to rebuild much of its infrastructure. It had taken a huge brunt of Germany's attacks in the East and its losses were staggering in terms of men and materials. It initially demanded huge reparations, but settled for drawing what it needed from the territories it already occupied which still didn't settle well with the Allies.

The Allies, though, were really powerless to do anything about the Soviet armies sitting in Eastern Europe. And although the Marshall Plan was devised to rebuild Europe as a whole, the Soviet Union refused to participate in it fearing that it would owe the Allies.

Answer 2

ok thank-you!! =)