Cold War Quiz #1

A period of hostility developed between the western world and the Soviet Union. It was called this because there was actually no fighting going on.

• World War I

• World War II

• Cold War

• Vietnam War

Select all that apply: Big Three at the Yalta Conference and the country they represent.

• FDR- USA

• Joseph Stalin- Soviet Union

• Winston Churchill- Great Britain

• Charles de Gaulle- France

This was an intergovernmental organization that was created on October 24, 1945 to promote international peace and cooperation; was meant to replace the failed League of Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• Treaty of Versailles

What happened to Germany after World War II?

• it was kept the same

• It was divided into four zones

• it was turned into a new country

All property in common, choices controlled by the government, and no incentive to work describes...

• Communism

• Democracy

Government by the people, capitalism, different social classes like upper, middle, and lower classes describes...

• Democracy

• Communism

NATO stands for

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• North Atlanta Treaty Organization

• National Atlantic Thirty Organization

• North Atlantic Treaty Organizations

In 1949 the United States joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada, to form a military alliance against communism called

• NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• CIA

• Axis Powers

In 1955 the Soviet Union created this, which provided a unified system of military command for the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite countries for their mutual defense. Created in response to NATO being formed

• NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• European Union

• Axis Powers

What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine? 

• Keep Communism Contained
• Help the Spread of Communism 
• Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb
• Give the USSR money