Cold War Origins

The two superpowers that dominated the world after World War II were the

• USSR & Great Britain
• US & USSR
• USSR & China
• US & China

In the years after World War II, the United States supported the ideas of

• economic dominance & military power
• capitalism & democracy
• communism & revolution
• independence & military power

The battle between the ideas of the US & the ideas of the Soviet Union in the years from 1945-1989 was called the

• Superpower Struggle
• Battle of Wits
• Cold War
• Korean War

Former Nazi leaders were put on trial in what German city in 1945?

• Berlin
• Hamburg
• Potsdam
• Nuremberg

The division of Europe into a democratic western half & a communist eastern half was called the

• Siegfried Line
• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Wall
• Communist Demarcation

The US plan to rebuild western Europe with $13 billion in aid was called the

• Berlin Airlift
• North Atlantic Pact
• Marshall Plan
• Cold War Helper

When US & British planes dropped millions of tons of supplies into Berlin in 1948-1949 to stop the Soviet takeover of the city, it was called the

• Save Our City Campaign
• Defend Berlin Drop
• Berlin Airlift
• Germany First Campaign

The alliance formed by the US & Western European nations in 1949 was called the

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Defend Europe Pact
• Warsaw Pact
• US Aid Committee

The Soviet led alliance of Eastern European nations, formed in 1955, was called the

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Red First Committee
• Warsaw Pact
• Moscow Alliance

The leader of the Soviet Union in the early years of the Cold War (1945-1953) was

• Vladimir Lenin
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Josef Stalin
• Leonid Brezhnev