Cold War Quiz

What term came to represent the division of Europe into the mostly Democratic West and the Communist East?

• Berlin Wall

• iron curtain

• containment

• Warsaw Pact

an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

• brinkmanship

President Truman's plan to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries.

• containment

• brinkmanship

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Plan

When both the US and the Soviet Union began a military buildup that would go on for four decades.

• NATO

• containment

• Truman Doctrine

• arms race

the US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• containment

• Warsaw Pact

a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.

• containment

• Cold War

• brinkmanship

• Truman Doctrine

a US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII.

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the US, and Canada.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Cold War

• Truman Doctrine

a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.

• Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

a state of diplomatic hostility between the US and Soviet Union in the decades following WWII.

• Warsaw Pact

• containment

• brinkmanship

• Cold War