The Cold War

What did Americans fear after the end of WWII?

• The spread of democracy

• The spread of NATO

• The spread of communism

• The spread of capitalism

Why did the United States send troops to Vietnam?

• To stop the spread of NATO

• To stop the spread of communism

• To stop the spread of capitalism

• To stop the spread of democracy

The iron curtain was an actual wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin. At first it was a barbed wire fince, but later it changed to become a 12-foot high and 4-foot wide concrete wall.

• True

• False

Which term is most closely related to capitalism?

• dictatorship

• facism

• democratic

• communist

The Soviet Union place missiles in Cuba that were pointed toward the U.S. Why did this worry the United States?

• The U.S. worried that Cuba would become communist

• The U.S. worried that Nikita Khrushchev would get hurt

• The U.S. worried that they would lose the territories that they gained during the Spanish American War

• The U.S. worried that a nuclear war might start

What happened as an effect of the end of the Korean War in 1953?

• The U.S. gained South Korea as a territory

• North Korea and South Korea reunited

• North Korea and South Korea remained divided

• South Korea dropped an atomic bomb on North Korea

The Soviet Union supported democratic governments and capitalist economies.

• True

• False

The Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but there was not actual combat involved. The war between these two countries was a rivalry between which of the following?

• capitalism vs. facism

• communism vs. dictatorship

• socialism vs. communism

• communism vs. capitalism

Which of the following events brought the world close to a nuclear war in the 1960s?

• Space Race

• Dropping of the atomic bomb

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

An alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 by the leaders of several non-communist countries. Why was NATO formed?

• to drop supplies to the people of East Berlin by the Berlin Airlift

• to turn the Cold War hot

• to keep the USSR from forcing communism on other countries

• to encourage all of Western Europe that they should have a democratic government and a capitalist economy