Introduction to the Cold War

What was the Cold War?

• ending of relations between the United States and Europe

• short period of arctic temperatures

• a struggle for world power between the United States and Soviet Union

• removal of Asian countries from NATO

What were the conditions set forth by the Yalta Conference?

• Germany was to be divided into four occupation zones

• Poland's borders were redrawn

• self-government and free elections in Eastern Europe

• all of the above

What is the Iron Curtain?

• dissolution of the Soviet Union

• the establishment of the United States as an economic power

• the imaginary barrier between the East and the West

• a trade blockade created between the United States and Europe

What was the name of the legislation created by President Truman to provide aid to countries resisting communist threats?

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Mandate

• Truman Doctrine

• Potsdam Accords

What was the Marshall Plan?

• a financial aid plan meant to degrade the Soviet economy.

• a financial aid plan to assist post-war recovery in Europe

• a war strategy on the invasion of the Soviet Union

• all of the above

What was the Berlin airlift?

• parachute troops landing in Berlin to install a government

• the training of Berlin citizens to be pilots

• the removal of people from Berlin by the Soviets.

• an effort by the Allies to fly resources into Berlin.

How did the Marshall Plan help Europe rebuild?

• it provided manpower to help rebuild cities.

• it created a series of alliances between major world powers

• it provided funding to European countries to rebuild the economy

• it dissolved the German government

What was the United Nations?

• An assistance program to provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe

• An international organization intended to protect members from aggression

• An organization to promote Soviet Policies

• An organization that prepares really good food.

Following the war, Germany was

• Divided into occupied zones, the east to the Soviets and the west to the democracies.

• restored to the Kaiser under the supervision of the U.S.S.R.

• ceded to the Republic of Poland.

• Allowed to keep Berlin autonomous without allied supervision.

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