Cold War

The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after WW2 because

• the Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.

• the Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe

• Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other.

• the United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states.

The Truman Doctrine promised to

• restore control of satellite states to the Soviet Union

• use military force to fight Communist expansion in Asia.

• give economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

• end the civil war in Greece and rid the country of Communists.

The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

• North and South Korea should be unified.

• military force was the best way to contain communism.

• nations should maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons.

• communism succeeded only in countries with economic problems.

The Berlin Wall was erected in order to

• stop the flow of refugees from East Germany

• prevent the spread of communism

• protect Soviet military supplies

• retaliate against U.S. aggression

The Warsaw Pact was

• U.S. promise to support countries fighting communism

• U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe

• a military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe states

• a military alliance of United States and its Western European allies

The policy of containment is

• a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies

• U.S. promise to support countries fighting communism

• a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves.

• U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe

NATO is

• a military alliance between the United States and its Western European allies

• a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies

• U.S. promise to stop the spread of communism

• U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe

After liberating Eastern Europe from Nazi control, the USSR

• remained in the conquered areas

• encouraged free elections

• returned to its historic borders

• began to expand into western Germany and France

The Allied power who refused to give up control of its German zone was

• the United States

• Great Britain

• France

• the Soviet Union

What solution did the Western powers pursue to undermine the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?

• an airlift

• NATO

• the Marshall Plan

• a policy of containment