Cold War 1950s Review

Cold War tensions were mainly caused by

• competition between the superpowers to explore outer space

• U.S. refusal to send economic aid to European nations

• Soviet aggression to spread communism and domination in Eastern Europe

• continuation of the pre-World War II balance of power

In the EARLY Cold War Western and Eastern powers formed military alliances called

• The League of Nations & the United Nations

• The Berlin Wall and NATO

• The United Nations & NATO

• NATO & the Warsaw Pact

The creation of NATO and The Warsaw Pact is significant because

• Immigration was highly restricted by these entities

• It intensified cold war tensions

• They helped ease the Cold War tensions

• They led to the outbreak of the Korean War

One way the U.S. demonstrated the policy of Containment in the EARLY Cold War was by

• sending troops into communist regions

• sending economic aid to help countries rebuild and resist communism

• limiting immigration to the U.S. from all nations

• remaining isolationist in the decades after WWII

The Marshall Plan

• Helped unite Germany

• Further divided Eastern and Western Europe

• United Eastern and Western Europe

• Separated the nation of France

The Berlin Airlift was a response to

• The first launch of a communist satellite into space

• The construction of the Berlin Wall

• The US blockade of East Berlin

• The cutting off of food & supplies to the city of West Berlin by the Soviets

The Truman Doctrine pledged to stop the spread of communism by...

• Providing military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece to resist communist takeover

• Helping South American countries rebuild after WWII

• Helping NATO Countries

• Providing economic aid to Eastern Europe

The main goals of the Marshall Plan were

• To help South Korea

• Assist countries in Eastern Europe who needed food

• To help the Middle East

• Help rebuild cities of Western Europe after WWII to further the policy of Containment

The Truman Doctrine was necessary because

• Korea was in desperate need of military aid

• Western Europe needed to be rebuilt to withstand the spread of Communism

• The Red Scare had many Americans fearing a nuclear conflict

• Greece & Turkey were vulnerable to Soviet communist interference

US Containment policy during the Cold War that stated...

• We wanted to hunt down USSR spies who had infiltrated the U.S.

• Our primary focus was to stop the spread of communism

• We wanted to stop the flow of refugees into the country

• We were trying to contain the National Debt