Cold War Review Questions

Which title best completes the partial outline below?

• Path to World War I

• Victories for democray

• Cold War confrontations

• Terrorism in the 20th century

In the 1950s, what was the status of most countries in Eastern Europe?

• members of the Common Market

• participants in the Marshall Plan

• allies of the United States

• satellites of the Soviet Union

The imaginary line that divided the Western European countries from the Eastern European countries after World War II was known as the

• prime meridian

• line of demarcation

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

The use of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe after World War II strengthened the forces of

• communism

• democracy

• isolationism

• autocracy

The political climate of the Cold War caused the world’s two superpowers to

• cooperate in halting the spread of communism

• colonize Africa and Asia

• compete economically and militarily

• protect human rights

After World War II, the Soviet Union established satellites in Eastern Europe to

• support the remaining Fascist governments in Eastern Europe

• preserve Capitalism in Eastern Europe

• establish democratic governments in Eastern European nations

• expand its power and control over Eastern Europe

The situation shown in this cartoon resulted most directly from which of the following?

• refusal of the United Nations to allow communist members

• building of the Berlin Wall

• Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe after World War II

• OPEC oil embargo

This image shows a label used on aid packages to post-World War II Europe as a result of the

• Treaty of Versailles

• SALT Agreements

• Yalta Conference

• Marshall Plan

The Truman Doctine and the Marshall Plan were established to

• put down the Hungarian Revolution

• contain communism

• end the Soviet blockade of Berlin

• destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing

• government housing to refugees

• military assistance to Vietnam

• funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations

• nuclear weapons to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members