Early Cold War Review

A huge economic aid plan to help Europe recover from the destruction of WW2 and be equipped to halt spread of communism and give the USA markets for American goods.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Space Race

• The Red Scare

Legislation passed in which America promised to support free countries to help fight against communist takeover. First instances were in Greece and Turkey

• McCarthyism

• The Korean Crisis

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

This US foreign policy was aimed at preventing the spread of communism and keep it bottled up where it already existed.

• Militarization

• Containment

• Reaganomics

• Counterinsurgency

After WW2, Germany was divided up between what four countries?

• USSR, USA, France, England

• Italy, USSR, USA, Spain

• France, USA, USSR, Sweden

• USSR, USA, Ireland, Switzerland

The Berlin Crisis was a failed Soviet attempt to starve West Berlin into submission by cutting supply lines into that sector of the city.

• True

• False

An alliance created in 1949 by the West in order to have a coordinated defense against the Soviet Union.

• Warsaw Pact

• NAFTA

• FEMA

• NATO

Created in 1955, this was an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.

• NATO

• NAFTA

• Warsaw Pact

• The Prague Agreement