Cold War - Foreign Policy Open Note Quiz

The United States' economy is based on....

• Free Market

• State Run Market

• Individual Gain

• Militarism

The Period of tension between the US & Soviet Union is called...

• Cold Cooperation

• Cold Tolerance

• Cold War

• Cold World War

True or False, The UN Security Council has 5 permanent members each with veto power.

These countries are as follows:

US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union & Zimbabwe.

• True

• False

The policy of the Free World (the US) aimed at preventing the further spread of communism is called...

• Isolationism

• Expansionism

• Containment

• Brinkmanship

Who gave their infamous "Iron Curtain" Speech in 1946?

• Josef Stalin

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry S Truman

• Winston Churchill

What is NATO?

• An organization in which countries pledge to support one another should they be attacked.

• An organization created to help countries build nuclear weapons.

• An organization in which countries pledge to remain isolated in case there is another World War.

• An organization where countries learn how to become communist nations.

In response to the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union formed their own counter alliance organization with their satellite nations called...

• New York Alliance

• League of Nations

• Sputnik

• Warsaw Pact

Where did the US & Great Britain airlift supplies to counter the Soviet Blockade?

• Moscow

• London

• West Berlin

• Houston

In 1949, 2 critical events took place that symbolized the fear of the spread of communism & threat of nuclear attack. What were they?

• Mexico falls to communism & US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

• Communism is eliminated from the world & all countries agreed to dismantle their atomic weapons.

• China falls to the communists & the Soviet Union successfully tests their first atomic bomb.

• England takes over the Soviet Union & drops an atomic bomb on Moscow.

What ended the Korean War?

• China came to the aid of the North Korean forces and were able to drive the UN & US forces back across the 38th parallel.

• The US dropped an atomic bomb on Pyongyang, North Korea.

• China took over Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

• The North Korean government agreed to unite with the South Korean government to create a unified country with free elections for all.