Cold War Assessment

What was the goal of the United States during the Cold War?

• This country's goal was to spread communism - their political and economic system in which the government owns and controls businesses and property.

• This country's goal was to contain the spread of communism, therefore, the policy throughout the Cold War period was known as the “containment policy.”

• To encourage democratic governments throughout the world that were based on personal freedoms and a free enterprise economic system.

• None of the above

In a speech in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that an “iron curtain” had descended across Europe. What did Churchill mean by the “iron curtain”?

• The separation of the Communist countries in Eastern Europe from the capitalist nations in the West.

• The railroad system in Eastern Europe.

• The division of Germany agreed upon after WWII.

• A curtain or divider that was made of iron, which separated the entire continent of Europe. The wall was 10 feet high and 4 feet thick.

After WWII, a key reason the Soviet Union established satellite nations in Eastern Europe was to

• ease tensions with the Chinese Government

• expand trade opportunities with Western Europe

• protect its western border from attack

• maintain freedom of the seas

What event in the 1960's brought the world close to a nuclear war?

• Apollo Project

• Berlin Wall

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

What was the alliance that was formed to stop the spread of communism?

• Sputnik

• United Nations

• NATO

• Space Race

The Soviet Union's response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was to create the

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• Eastern European Union

During the Cold War, a country's decision to support neither the United States nor the Soviet Union was based on its policy of

• isolationism

• containment

• separatism

• nonalignment

The efforts of the United States to keep communism from spreading was called

• containment

• democracy

• executive order

• internment

Name of the alliance between communist countries in Eastern Europe as a balance of power or counterweight the alliance between the Democratic countries

• Triple Alliance

• Warsaw Pact

• Moscow Pact

• Pact of Steel

All of the following were Cold War "hot spots" except

• Vietnam

• India

• Afghanistan

• Cuba