Cold War Quiz #1

An international organization based in New York City that was intended to protect its members against aggression

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• United Nations (UN)

• Warsaw Pact

• The First Order

What was the ideological boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991?

• Steel Curtain

• Great Wall of China

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

What was the name of the policy that was created to block Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism?

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinksmanship

What policy established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces?

• Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinksmanship

What was the program where the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II?

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

What was a decades-long struggle for supremacy between the United States and its allies with the Soviet Union where either side did not do battle directly?

• Vietnam War

• Russo-American War

• Korean War

• Cold War

According to article 5 in which organization states that an attack on any member is considered an attack on all members and would be met with the armed force by all member nations.

• Axis Pact

• Warsaw Pact

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• United Nations (UN)

What was the name of the alliance created between the Soviet Union and affiliated countries to counter the alliance of Western Democratic nations known as?

• Warsaw Pact

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• United Nations (UN)

• Truman Doctrine

What is the foreign policy used in the Cold War which is where a country would push a dangerous issue or event to the edge looking for the best outcome for there side.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Brinksmanship

• Marshall Plan

What is a rapid increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military power by rival states in peacetime?

• Arms Race

• Brinksmanship

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain