Cold War

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

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

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

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

Who built the Berlin Wall?

• Soviet Union
• NATO
• The UN
• China

What does NATO stand for? 

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• North American Treaty Organization
• North American Truce Organization
• North Asian Trust Order

What was the mutual defense alliance of non communist nations?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Open Skies

What was the name for the 1955 alliance of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe that were the counterpart to the western alliance?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• European Alliance

• Iron Curtain

Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed in 1949?

• To end the Cold War

• To fly supplies to West Berlin

• To stop the spread of communism

• To set up capitalist economic systems

The state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without actual fighting that divided the world into two camps was the what?

• Policy of containment

• Warsaw Pact

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cold War