Cold War Lasso

The United States considered Cuba a threat because

• Cuban exiles had informed the U.S. government about missiles in Cuba.

• The Cuban government had been overthrown and was unstable.

• Castro and Kennedy did not trust each other.

• Cuba, which was only 90 miles away, had ties with the Soviets.

The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing

• government housing to refugees

• military assistance to Vietnam

• nuclear weapons to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members

• funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to

• promote religious freedom

• defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression

• isolate member nations from the rest of the world

• stop the flow of immigration between member nations

The imaginary line that divided the Western European countries from the Eastern European countries after World War II was known as the

• prime meridian

• Iron Curtain

• line of demarcation

• Berlin Wall

The U.S. government believed in the Domino Theory that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

• Other Asian countries would come to the aid of South Vietnam.

• North Vietnam would become communist too.

• U.S. citizens would turn against the war.

• Other Asian countries would fall to communism.