The Cold War

This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.

• NATO

• United Nations

• Satellite nations

This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.

• Cold War

• Berlin airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.

• United Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Brinkmanship

He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.

• Joseph Stalin

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Nikita Khrushchev

This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime.

• NATO

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

This aid program was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• United Nations

This term refers to indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II.

• Cold War

• Containment

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

He believed that the best way to avoid a third world war was to create a new world order in which all nations had the right to self-determination.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support because he

• was corrupt

• was a Nationalist

• was a Communist

• had cooperated with Japan during World War II

The failure of Chiang Kai-shek's forces in the Chinese Civil War can largely be blamed on

• his weak and corrupt leadership

• aid given by the United States to the opposition

• the U.S. fear and distrust of communism

• the U.S. lack of interest in the outcome of the war