Cold War 18.1

The period of political tensions following World War II, which ended with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s, was known as the

• Nuclear Age.

• "second front."

• Big Three.

• Cold War.

The Big Three agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the US, USSR, Great Britain and

• Italy

• Switzerland

• Canada

• France

After dividing up Eastern European countries among the Allies at the end of the war, the Soviet Union refused to allow

• Germany to be divided among the four main Allies.

• free elections in European countries under its control.

• war crimes trials to be held for Nazi leaders.

• the United States to take an equal part in the process.

Who coined the term containment?

• George Kennan

• George Thorogood

• Vladimir Lenin

• General Krulak

The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

• North and South Korea should be unified

• Military force was the best way to contain communism

• Nations should maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons

• Communism succeeded only in poor countries with poor economies.

A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country is called?

• Warsaw nation

• Allied nation

• Satellite nation

• Deterrent nation

To stop the spread of communism beyond the Soviet Union, the United States adopted a policy of

• Containment.

• Imperialism.

• Guaranteed protection.

• Appeasement.

What prompted the Berlin Airlift?

• The Soviets invaded western Germany to take control.

• The Soviets refused to allow a democratic government in West Berlin.

• The Soviets took over the western half of Germany

• The Soviets blockaded travel and supplies to West Berlin.

The policy of deterrence was based on the belief that the best way to prevent nuclear war is to

• limit the number of weapons a nation can stockpile.

• implement a system of checks and balances.

• agree to mutual disarmament.

• maintain large arsenals of weapons on both sides.

The Berlin Wall was a symbol of

• tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union

• aggressive Soviet expansion.

• failed U.S. foreign policy.

• German nationalism.