Cold War & the 1950s

A(n) ____ in Eastern Europe was controlled politically and economically by the Soviet Union.

• Satellite Nation

• Blacklist Nation

• Capitalist Nation

• Muppet State

The ____ was the imaginary line that divided Europe between capitalist West and Communist East.

• Steel rod

• Berlin Axis

• Iron Curtain

• Containment Line

The term ____ refers to the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world.

• Containment Strategy

• Cold War

• Hot Peace

• NATO-Warsaw Conflict

After World War II, American leaders developed a policy of ____ to resist and stop the spread of communism.

• Truman Doctrine

• Reverse Domino Strategy

• Containment Strategy

• Brinkmanship

The ____ pledged American financial aid to all European nations following World War II.

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

• Franco-German Fund

• Truman Aid

The ____ provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.

• Marshall Plan

• German Fund

• Berlin Airlift

• Cuban Embargo

In the late 1940s this committee investigated the motion picture industry for Communist influences.

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Special Subcommittee on Anti-Communist Activities (SSAA)

• DOJ Special Counsel on Communist Activities (SCCA)

• Senate Subversion Committee (SSC)

At the Yalta conference, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin decided to

• keep the Soviet Union out of the war with Japan.

• divide the defeated Germany into four sectors—American, British, French, and Soviet.

• rearm Germany as soon possible.

• set up a world organization that would share knowledge of atomic weapons.

As World War II ended, a major disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union involved

• Soviet domination of Poland.

• the role of Britain in postwar Europe.

• the division of Latin America.

• the wording of the United Nations charter.

Which was an immediate result of the Truman Doctrine?

• Congress approved $400 million to help Turkey and Greece resist Soviet influence.

• The state of Israel was founded.

• The Soviet Union took control over Yugoslavia.

• Congress established the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).