The Cold War

The Soviet Union's response to the formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to create the

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• European Union

Immediately after World War II, which country exerted political and economic control over Poland, Hungary, and Romania?

• France

• United States

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

The Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall were both intended to

• halt the spread of communism

• isolate unpopular governments

• limit the movement of people

• keep people from smuggling illegal goods

The use of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe after World War II strengthened the forces of

• democracy

• communism

• isolationism

• autocracy

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to

• promote religious freedom

• defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression

• isolate member nations from the rest of the world

• stop the flow of immigration between member nations

The term iron curtain refers to the

• scars left on the land by the trenches of World War I

• no-fly zone in northen Iraq after the Persian Gulf War

• border established between India and Pakistan after World War II

• western boundary of Soviet domination in Europe during the Cold War

Membership in the European Economic Community has enabled participating nations to

• end all trade with Communist nations

• reduce or eliminate tariffs among themselves

• eliminate United States tariffs on goods imported from Europe

• work out disarmament agreements through United Nations agencies

The events that took place in Hungary in the 1950s and in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s demonstrated the Soviet Union's

• support of nationalism among satellite nations

• influence on the economies of developing nations

• determination to maintain political control over Eastern Europe at this time.

• attempts to promote its artistic and literary achievements in Western Europe

Which leader's policies included glasnost and perestroika?

• Fidel Castro

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Deng Xiaoping

What has the end of communism in the Soviet Union caused many countries in Eastern Europe to do?

• shift to a command economy

• maintain a communist form of government

• pursue free-market economic policies

• join the Warsaw Pact