Crash Course: The Cold War #37

The Truman Doctrine provided $400 million in aid to which two countries?

• Germany and The Soviet Union

• The US and The Soviet Union

• Turkey and Greece

• Greece and Japan

What would you have found in Eastern Europe during the Cold War?

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Anarchy

The _________ was designed to help rebuild the economies of European countries.

• containment

• stalemate

• Marshall Plan

• demilitarized zone

Truman had the policy of __________ toward Communism

• Appeasement

• Containment

• Expansion

• Eradication

What is Containment?

• Allowing Communism to spread

• The spread of democratic ideas

• Keeping Communism from spreading

• Preventing the spread of democratic ideas

Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship

• Massive Retaliation

What was the Red Scare?

• fear of the spread of wealth

• fear of the spread of Communism

• fear of the spread of Capitalism

• fear of job competition

The Berlin Wall was built during_____________.

• The Cold War

• World War II

• World War I

• The Korean War

What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

• An alliance of Western powers, including the US

• A peace-keeping international organization

• A Soviet Union military alliance

• A peace-keeping Eastern alliance

What is McCarthyism?

• The practice of Senator Joseph McCarthy in which he hunted down suspected communists in America, even if there was little evidence

• The practice of Senator Joseph McCarthy in which he began spying on the Soviet Union

• The practice of Senator Joseph McCarthy in which he began Senate debate on illegal immigration

• The practice of Senator Joseph McCarthy in which he began criticizing American spending on repairing European powers after World War II