Cold War Era

The Marshall Plan 

• offers military assistance to Greece and Turkey.
• offers economic stability to Western Europe. 
• is the reason for U.S. involvement in Korea
• is the idea that if one country falls to communism, surrounding countries will also fall to communism. 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Loaning money to Western European countries to rebuild after WWII
• Peace organization formed after WWII to prevent war. 
• Policy of threatening a major response, including nuclear weapons against a communist nation
• Defense organization stating that if one member is attacked, it's the same as all members begin attacked. 

The Cold War 

• The United States and the Soviet Union cut all diplomatic ties.
• An new kind of war with great casualties on both the US and USSR sides.
• Never really happened, it was simply a conspiracy invented by President Truman's administration. 
• The United States and the USSR formed competing military alliances. 

Military aid to Greece and Turkey following attempts at communist overthrows. 

• Marshall Plan
• Domino Theory
• NATO
• Truman Doctrine

The CIA trained Cuban refugees to try and overthrow Castor's communist regime. This attempt was unsuccessful because JFK refused to provide support. 

• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Massive Retaliation 

Preventing the spread of communism

• Containment
• McCarthyism
• United Nations
• Domino Theory 

All of the following are examples of the Containment policy except? 

• Korean War
• Sending troops to South Vietnam
• The creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Truman Doctrine 

Which of the following is a response to Stalin cutting off supply lines to Western Berlin? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Wall was constructed 
• Berlin Airlift by United States forces
• The Korean War

What was the US response to the first successful launch of the Soviet's Sputnik in 1957? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• The United States forms NASA
• We form a naval blockade off the coast of Cuba
• Invasion of the USSR by US forces

Contributed to the 2nd Red Scare by suggesting the State Department had been infiltrated by Communists. 

• Harry Truman
• Joseph McCarthy
• Francis Gary Powers
• Fidel Castro