Unit 8: The Cold War

The era following World War II of high tension and bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in which the two powers would avoid fighting each other directly but would block each other’s goals around the world is referred to as?

• The lukewarm war
• The tepid war
• The cold war
• The hot war

Name the two countries that became bitter rivals in the era known as the Cold War?

• The USA and Great Britain
• The USA and France
• The USA and Korea
• The USA and Soviet Union

The Allies controlled most of what section of Europe at the conclusion of World War II ?

• Eastern
• Western
• Northern
• Southern

At the close of WWII the Soviet Union controlled most of what section of Europe?

• Western
• Northern
• Eastern
• Southern

Why did Roosevelt and Churchill agree to Soviet influence in eastern Europe?

• They felt they could trust Stalin
• The war in the Pacific was still raging
• Stalin promised to hold free elections
• The iron curtain would contain the communists

What term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 described the imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold War?

• The Steel Curtain
• The Berlin Wall
• The Iron Curtain
• The Soviet Bloc Wall

What U. S. policy adopted in the late 1940’s was used to stop the spread of communism?

• Adoption
• Containment
• Suppression
• Annihilation

President Truman’s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by the Soviet Union in an effort to check the spread of communism is called?

• Containment
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Dogma
• Truman Doctrine

Name the alliance of European nations, Iceland, Canada, and the U.S., that was formed to provide security against armed attack.

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• European Alliance
• Truman Doctrine

What was the name for the 1955 alliance of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe  that were the counterpart to the western alliance?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• European Alliance
• Iron Curtain

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