The Cold War

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as Containment. What was the main goal of the Containment?

• To expand trade with Europe
• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
• To stop the spread of communism
• to send financial aid to Europe

How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?

• They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
• They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
• They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
• They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Which of the following were a direct result of Sputnik?

• America create the HUAC
• Increased emphasis on education
• America started the Aeronautics Space Diffusion Program
• America and its allies created NATO

Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?

• They built it to keep Soviet people from going to Western Europe.
• In response to East Germans leaving East Berlin
• The Soviet Union and the United States divided Berlin in two parts after the war.
• The Soviet Union was trying to put people back to work by building the Berlin Wall.

What was the mutual defense alliance of America and its allies to stop the advance of communism?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Open Skies

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

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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In 1946, the British Prime Minister said in a speech that an "Iron Curtain" had fallen across the European continent. This "Iron Curtain" was ______________.

• a wall built between countries controlled by Nazi Germany and ones that weren't.
• another name for the Alps, which protected it from the USSR during the Cold War. 
• an imaginary line separating Europe's communist and non-communist countries.
• a divider between the good and the evil.

I was a senator in the 1950s,
I wanted to find Communists in the US, My work was part of the Red Scare,My ideas became unpopular, Who am I?

• Henry Ford
• Charles Lindbergh
• Joseph McCarthy
• General Eisenhower