Cold War Basics

Democratic nations from Europe and North America formed this alliance to prevent war with the Soviet Union, what was it called?

• NATO

• SEATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Wolfpack

The Soviet Union and independent Communist nations from Eastern Europe formed this alliance to prevent a land invasion in the USSR?

• SEATO

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Triple Alliance

British WW2 Hero Winston Churchill suggested that Europe has been divided analyze this cartoon Cold War political cartoon and then determine what is going on?

• Joseph Stalin: Iron Curtain

• Alexander Dubchek: Berlin Wall

• Harry Truman: Berlin Wall

• George Kennan: Iron Curtain

In this political cartoon it shows Joseph Stalin plotting to control all of Europe, what might be an appropriate name for these striped nations sandwiched between the white democracies from western Europe, and the black cloud over the Soviet Union?

• Satellite states

• Umbrella nations

• countries not yet decided

• front line nations

After WW2 American Secretary of State George Marshall suggested a plan to rebuild Western European nations that destroyed by bombing raids from WW2, take a look at this map to determine what nations might been the Soviets next target?

Determine the plan and what two nations were given economic aide to rebuild.

• Marshall Plan: Greece and France

• Marshall Plan: Greece and Turkey

• Molotov Plan: Yugoslavia and Greece

• Molotov Plan: Yugoslavia and Albania

Analyze these primary sources to determine what is going on in Germany's capital city after WW2?

#1 image

#2 The Berlin Crisis

"Because Berlin was entirely surrounded by teriitory of the Soviet Zone of Germany, it was necessary to arrange for the supply of the America garrison in Berlin-Western...established an air corridor to Berlin...to be open to flights by American and British planes."

Truman Library Document

• Molotov Cocktail

• Moscow airlift

• St. Petersburg Express

• Berlin Airlift

Refer to this excerpt from a National Security breifing called NSC #68 used to advise President Truman and then determine which American foreign policy matches up.

As for the policy of........, it is one which seeks by all means short of war to:

1 block further expansion of Soviet power,

2 expose the falsities of Soviet pretensions,

3 shrink the Kremlin's (Soviet Capital) control and influence, and

4 in general to foster the seeds of destruction with the Soviet system by whatever measures necessary to protect democracy around this shrinking world

• Isolationism

• Containment

• Alliance

• Subterfuge

According to this political cartoon what theory led the US to become involved in combat in Southeast Asia, both in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1955-1975).

• Domino Theory

• Dicey policy

• Connect four to communism

• lego my democracies

Reference these four maps to determine what part of Korea America sided with, and what powerful nation directly to the north of Korea supported the spread of Communism?

• South Korea: China

• North Korea: Russia

• South Korea: Russia

• North Korea: China

When this falls in Germany, the Cold War rapidly comes to an end?

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• London Bridge

• 3rd Reich