Cold War-Early Years

Which sentence best completes this diagram?
__________ >>>>>> Berlin Airlift

• Stalin built a wall in Berlin to separate East and West Berliners
• Stalin allowed free access to West Berlin by railroad and air
• Stalin united all the Allied sectors of Berlin under one city government. 
• Stalin cut off supply routes to democratic West Berlin.

How did the Soviet Union respond when the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany?

• threatened to declare war
• building the Berlin Wall
• organized a military alliance
• blockaded West Berlin

Throughout the Cold War, most United States foreign policy was based on the belief that the United States had which of the following responsibilities?

• preventing the spread of communism
• providing economic aid to the nations of the Warsaw Pact
• supporting worldwide government overthrows
• avoiding all foreign entanglements

How was the Marshall Plan designed to discourage the spread of Communism in Europe?

• by establishing freely elected governments in Poland and Czechoslovakia
• by restoring economic stability to the nations of Western Europe
• by joining European nations together into the European Union
• by providing military assistance to France, Great Britain, and Italy

  Which phrase best completes this graphic organizer?

• Military defeat of Nazi Germany
• Federal aid to American farmers
• Economic aid to other countries
• Free trade with Canada

Which of these conditions was an ECONOMIC cause of the Cold War in Europe? 

• Stalin resented the fact that the Western Allies had delayed the invasion of France during the war.
• Truman failed to share the secrets of the atomic bomb at the Potsdam.
• The United States had a capitalist system while the Soviet Union had Communist system with central planning.
• Stalin felt the Soviet Union had the right to establish a "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe. 

In the post-World War II era, what did Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee attempt to do?

• establish a policy of détente with the Soviet Union
• identify Communists in the government and elsewhere in American society
•  make Cold War programs a priority in United States foreign policy
• develop an effective system for spying on other countries

The political cartoon depicts the Marshall Plan and Europe. What is the main idea of this cartoon from the late 1940s?

• American economic aid is assisting European recovery.
• Europeans are not making serious attempts to solve their economic problems
• Europe is slipping into chaos and revolution.
• Containment is failing as a policy for stopping Soviet expansion into western Europe.

"I therefore ask the Congress to provide authority for assistance to Greece and Turkey in the amount of $400 million for the period ending June 30, 1948. . . . In addition to funds, I ask the Congress to authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel to Greece and Turkey, at the request of those countries..."
The speech from which this text is drawn provided the foundation for which of the following policies?

• the Warsaw Pact
• the Monroe Doctrine
• the Truman Doctrine
• the Roosevelt Corollary

After the end of World War II, why did many working women leave their factory jobs?

• They were forced to give up their jobs to returning war veterans
• They were dissatisfied with their low wages.
• They were fired from their jobs due to poor performance
• They were unprepared for peacetime employment.