cold war

What did the United States institute to help rebuild Europe and Japan and prevent the spread of communism after World War II?

• Reconstruction

• League of Nations

• Cold War

• Marshall Plan

What body was created for the nations near the end of World War II to try to prevent future global wars?

• League of Nations

• Allied Powers

• Axis Powers

• United Nations

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

Which of the following were reasons for the Cold War?

• The Soviet Union dominated over Eastern European countries.

• The Soviet Union was dictatorial and communist and the United States was democratic and capitalist.

• Soviet Union and U.S. fought on opposite sides during World War II.

• America’s policy of containment to stop the spread of Communism.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) versus Warsaw Pact

After World War II, who joined forces with the United States to resist Chinese and North Korean aggression which later ended in a stalemate?

• Soviet Union

• South Korea

• Cuba

• Vietnam

How did the conflict in Vietnam end?

• Both sides won

• Cease-fire agreement in which U.S. troops withdrew

• Soviets removed the missiles in Cuba in response to a U.S. blockade

• United States occupied Japan

United States President, John F. Kennedy and Soviet Union Premier, Nikita Khrushchev The political cartoon is about which conflict?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Desegregation

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

Which of the following was created by the communists in response to the formation of NATO?

• Axis Powers

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• Warsaw Pact

Which term means the linking of nations through trade, information, technologies, and communication?

• Servicing

• Globalization

• Outsourcing

• Travel

Division between democratic and communist nations in Europe

• NATO

• Cold War

• Berlin Wall

• "Iron Curtain"