Cold War Review

The "Cold War" refers to tensions between which two countries?

• USA and Great Britain
• Soviet Union and China
• USA and Soviet Union
• Germany and France

Who controls economic activity and businesses in a Capitalist system?

• Government
• Elected officials
• Dictator
• Private citizens

Winston Churchill's term used to describe the division in Europe after WWII was called

• Communist Curtain
• Solid Division
• Steel Wall
• Iron Curtain

The Marshall Plan was designed to...

• punish Germany
• ease the effects of the Berlin Blockade
• help European nations recover from WWII
• end the Cold War

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance that included which countries?

• USA and Cuba
• US and Western Europe
• North and South Korea
• USSR and its satellite nations

The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by the arrival of __________ in Cuba.

• aircraft carriers

• Chinese ships

• bomb shelters

• nuclear weapons

________ is an economic and political form of government in which the government owns all the land and most industries in the name of the people.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

________ is an economic system that encourages citizens to own businesses and properties.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

At the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam was ________.

• the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

• the US lost the Cold War.

• Vietnam was one unified country.

• the Korean War broke out.

The uniting of East and West Germany was a symbol of what?

• the end of the Cold War

• the breakup of the Soviet Union

• the triumph of the communist way of life

• the friendship between the United States and the Soviet Union.