Cold War Review

What was a direct result of atomic weapons during WWII?

• started the nuclear arms race between the US and USSR

• The UK and France emerged as Global Superpowers

• It caused Germany to surrender to the US

• the use of nuclear energy transformed the nation's landscape

What was the "iron curtain"?

• a curtain made of iron

• a wall between the US and Soviet union

• a symbol of the division between Communism and Democracy

• the 4 sections where the Allies divided Germany

What was the Truman Doctrine?

• a domestic Red Scare

• a plan to help Europe recover from WWII

• a pledge to fight communism

• the rearming of West Germany

The term that refers to keeping communism from spreading is

• blockade

• containment

• embargo

• iron curtain

The name for the US pledge to help struggling economies in Europe to keep them from falling to communism is

• NATO

• The Dawes Act 1921

• brinkmanship

• The Marshall Plan

Communists in Korea were aided by whom?

• The USSR

• The US

• The Vietnamnese

• The Chinese

The division between North and South Korea is at the

• 38th parallel

• 49th parallel

• The Equator

• The Pacific Ocean

As WWII was ending FDR wanted to create the United Nations to

• encourage economic growth and trade

• prevent another world war

• promote democracy

• support German economic recovery

As World War II ended, what two concerns most influenced Soviet leaders’ strategies for the post-war world?

• education and human rights

• reparations and the spread of capitalism

• security and promoting communism

• trade and economic growth

In the late 1940s, President Truman saw the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan as essential for

• American prosperity

• containment

• world economic recovery

• world peace