Cold War

Which word best describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?

• appeasement

• containment

• elimination

• indifference

Sputnik, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, and Berlin Wall are most associated with

• Cold War

• World War I

• World War II

• Communist Revolution

Winston Churchill referred to the "iron curtain" as

• primary cause of World War II

• collapse of the Soviet Union

• divided Korea into two separate countries along the 38th Parallel

• divided European countries into two groups (communist and non-communist

Multinational military alliance, Treaty of Belgium united members, created to combat the spread of communism

• The European Union (EU)

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

"The Iron Curtain" is used to describe the separation of communist countries from the rest of the world.

• True

• False

The phrase "The Iron Curtain" is associated with what era of history?

• The Cold War

• Gulf War

• World War I

• Vietnam War

Which of these countries would have been "behind the Iron Curtain" during the Cold War?

• France

• Italy

• Poland

• Spain

Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland. What do these countries have in common following World War II?

• They all joined NATO

• They all came under Soviet control

• They refused to make peach with Germany

• They refused to make peace with the Soviets

Which of these was the most noticeable symbol of the "Iron Curtain"?

• Great Wall

• Berlin Wall

• 38th Parallel

• 17th Parallel

The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was a confrontation between which two countries?

• Cuba and Venezuela

• Soviet Union and Cuba

• Cuba and the Dominican Republic

• United States and the Soviet Union