Early Cold War Policies and Events

What was the theme of the Cold War? 

• Competition & Confrontation
• Competition & War
• Friendship & Fire
• Confrontation & War 

What is Containment?

• Allowing Communism to spread
• The spread of democratic ideas 
• Keeping Communism from spreading to new areas
• Keeping terrorism from spreading

NATO was influenced by?

• United States
• Soviet Union
• Russia
• Greece

The Warsaw Pact was influenced by?

• United States
• Soviet Union
• America
• Democracy 

What was the goal of The Truman Doctrine?

• Keep Containment
• Allow Communism
• Keep Secrets
• The Bay of Pigs

The Marshall Plan is an example of?

• War
• Attacks
• Domestic Policy 
• Foriegn Policy 

A program in which the U.S. and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade of all routes to the city; lasted from 1948-1949

• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment
• Massive Retaliation

An era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union following the end of World War II.

• Containment
• Marshall Plan
• Cold War
• Massive Retaliation

(1947) President Truman’s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism.

• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• NATO
• Eisenhower Doctrine

Policy that the U.S. adopted in the late 1940’s to stop the spread of communism; it involved providing economic aid in order to strengthen against the Soviets.

• Containment
• Isolationism
• Neutrality
• Detente