What best describes the underlying cause of the cold war? (1 point) the remaining anger of enemies on opposing sides in world war ii soviet anger at the united states for interfering in greece and turkey basic political and economic differences between the united states and the soviet union 2. one goal of the marshall plan was to (1 point) make germany pay costs for all the destruction it had caused in europe. send troops to european countries fight communism. make european countries strong enough to start buying american goods. 3. what was the iron curtain? (1 point) the border between communist eastern europe and free market western europe the wall that divided berlin into four zones of occupation the area where the soviet union carried out nuclear testing 4. why did stalin decide to blockade west berlin? (1 point) to punish german leaders for world war ii to force west berlin to cut its ties with western europe to make the united states attack the soviet union