Cold War

The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after WWII 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 flight 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 the Soviet military supplies

• retaliate against U.S. agression

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was intended to

• weaken Western superpowers

• halt the creation of a West German state

• ease the tensions between East and West

• encourage the spread of communism

Mao Zedong, the leader of e Communists in China's civil war, was victorious in the civil war

• true

• false

The huge communes in China were a great success because they produced record amounts of food

• true

• false

Permanent revolution was Mao's belief that an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor would destroy his idea of Chinese communism

• True

• False

The Red Guards' purpose was to force the Chinese people to obey the new ideas and eliminate the old ones.

• True

• False

Americans feared the spread of communism to China because the United States worried that the Communists wanted to dominate the world.

• True

• False