AH6.1 Cold War Origins

What happened to Germany at the end of World War II?

• forced to pay reparations

• split into and East and West

• taken over by the Soviet Union

• left intact to prevent future conflicts

What military alliance including the United States and western democracies was formed in response to the Berlin Airlift in 1949?

• United Nations

• Arsenal of Democracy

• Western War Council

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What foreign policy did the U.S. adopt after World War II?

• isolationism

• “big stick”

• appeasement

• containment

What program provided a massive economic recovery plan to rebuild Western Europe after WWII?

• Alliance for Progress

• Marshall Plan

• Common Market

• Taft-Hartley Act

What term was coined by Winston Churchill that describes the separation between eastern and western Europe during the Cold War?

• iron curtain

• the great divide

• demo-commi line

• line of demarcation

What was deemed a police action by the U.N. when a communist nation attempted to invade its southern neighbor to unify it under Communism?

• Berlin Airlift

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Chinese Civil War