Containment and Alliances of Cold War Review

To prevent the further spread of ideas or physical advances of another nation is known as:

• expansionism

• militarism

• containment

• isolationism

Who were the two powers facing off in the Cold War?

• Great Britain and USA

• USA and USSR

• USA and Germany

• West Germany and East Germany

What does USSR stand for?

• Union States of Soviet Russia

• United States of Soviet Union

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• U Stink So Rancidly

The leader of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War was:

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

• Vladimir Lenin

According to many historians, the Cold War began when _____________________.

• the Soviet Union invaded the United States

• the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Japan

• the Soviet Union declared war on Japan in 1945

• World War II ended and there were disagreements about Europe's future

A country that is spreading their ideas and trying to influence the government and economy of another nation is practicing which foreign policy?

• expansionism

• militarism

• isolationism

• containment

According to most historians, what was the foreign policy of the United States at the start of the Cold War?

• Isolationism

• Militarism

• Expansionism

• Containment

What did Winston Churchill call the imaginary "divide" that existed within Europe following World War II?

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Gate

• Steel Wall

• Iron Curtain

A country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country is a(n):

• colony

• province

• satellite state

• nation-state

The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States was going to give $400 million to which two European countries? [because of their geographical value]

• Great Britain and France

• Germany and Berlin

• Poland and Czechoslovakia

• Turkey and Greece