Cold War Intro US History

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To expand trade with Europe
• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
• To stop the spread of communism
• to send financial aid to Europe

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Why was the United States involved in the Berlin Airlift?

• to airlift food to the people of West Berlin
• to bomb East Berlin
• to demolish the Berlin Wall
• to transport people out of East Berlin

How did the Marshall plan try to stop the spread of communism in Western Europe after WWII?

• by providing government housing for refugees
• by providing military assistance to Vietnam
• by providing money to stop poverty

What is the purpose of N.A.T.O?

• Countries joining together to end democracy
• Countries joining together to stop trade between the East and West
• Countries joining together to fend off attacks by other communist countries
• Countries joining together to create one kind of currency (S)

Which foreign policy aimed at preventing Communism from spreading?

• Containment
• NATO
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Airlift

What was Truman's response to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin?

• leave Berlin
• airlift supplies
• break through blockade
• nothing

What was the goal of the Marshall Plan? 

• to rebuild Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism
• to prevent future wars
• to rebuild the Soviet Union
• to convert U.S. factories to peacetime production

State of hostility between the US & USSR

• Cold War
• Forgotten War
• War on Terror
• Soviet-American War

"An ____________ has descended over the continent"; divided Europe between free & communist countries

• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Wall
• Great Wall
• Iron Blanket

What organization in New York was created after the war?

• girls scouts of america
• United Nations
• planned parenthood
• potsdam conference