Post WWII and Cold War TEST REVIEW

Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?

• An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
• An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
• A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
• A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected

Truman had the policy of __________ toward Communism

• Appeasement
• Containment
• Expansion
• Eradication

What global peacekeeping organization did the United States help form?

• The United Nations

• The Warsaw Pact

• The Marshall Plan

• The United States

Who coined the term "Iron Curtain"?

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

A right of a group to decide its own form of government is

• fascism

• communism

• self-determination (self-government)

• democracy

What type of government did the Soviet Union set up in East Germany?

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

What type of government did the US set up in West Germany?

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

A government by the people that is based on rule of the majority is

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

A government in which the state or single party owns everything and individual freedoms are limited is

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

What happened to the factories in the US after WWII?

• they converted from producing war materials to consumer goods

• they continued to produce war materials

• they continued to ration resources

• they fired everyone