Cold War

"Father of Containment"

• Nikita Khrushchev 
• George Kennan
• Gen. MacArthur
• Boris Yelstin

What program aided the rebuilding of Western Europe?

• Truman Doctrine
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Marshall Plan

What was the mutual defense alliance of non comminist nations?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Open Skies

Post World War II tensions increased between these two nations?

• United States and United Kingdom
• Japan and the Soviet Union
• United States and the Soviet Union
• Germany and Japan

The Truman Doctrine's main goal was to:

• Contain communism
• Provide weapons to democratic countries
• Destroy communism
• Provide collective security

How did the United States respond to the Soviet Union’s Berlin blockade?

• airlifted supplies to the people of Berlin
• withdrew its troops from Germany
• sent troops into the Soviet zone of Germany
• built a wall between East Berlin and West Berlin

Why is the Cold War called a "cold" war?

• The areas affected were in the polar regions of the world
• The war was fought during winter months only
• Leaders of the superpowers were sick with coughs and fevers
• There was never direct fighting between the two superpowers

What does NATO stand for?

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• North American Trade Organization
• Northern Alliance Trade Origins
• Native American Tribal Organization

What country was the head of the Warsaw Pact?

• Germany
• Soviet Union 
• China
• North Korea

What was the Iron Curtain?

• the boundary between Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe
• the boundary between the United States and Mexico
• the boundary between the United States and Mexico
• the wall dividing East and West Berlin