Cold War Origins

Which country was the main enemy of the United States during the Cold War?

• Germany

• Iran

• Soviet Union

• China

The organization created in 1945 to maintain world peace is

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• CIA

The foreign policy of the United States between 1946-1989 focusing on stopping the spread of communism is

called

• Neutrality

• Open Door Policy

• Isolationism

• Containment

The idea behind the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine was to provide economic help to nations in order to help them

• Make the Iron Curtain more permanent

• Resist communist take-over in countries that wanted help

• Be able to buy more goods from the Soviet Union

• Increase trade with communist countries

Communism is different that capitalism because in communism

• There are many social classes

• The government controls all parts of the economy

• competition is encouraged and expected

• people vote for their leaders

The US plan to rebuild western Europe with $13 billion in aid was called the

• Berlin Airlift
• North Atlantic Pact
• Marshall Plan
• Cold War Helper

When US & British planes dropped millions of tons of supplies into Berlin in 1948-1949 to stop the Soviet takeover of the city, it was called the

• Save Our City Campaign
• Defend Berlin Drop
• Berlin Airlift
• Germany First Campaign

The Soviet led alliance of Eastern European nations, formed in 1955, was called the

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Red First Committee
• Warsaw Pact
• Moscow Alliance

The leader of the Soviet Union in the early years of the Cold War (1945-1953) was

• Vladimir Lenin
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Josef Stalin
• Leonid Brezhnev

What organizing body was established at the Yalta Conference?

• The League of Nations
• The Treaty of Versailles
• The United Nations
• The International Justice League