Cold War Review

United States plan to prevent spread of Communism

• Sputnik

• Containment Policy

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

Germany was divided into ____ zones after WWII

• 3

• 5

• 2

• 4

Race to build more weapons than the enemy has

• Space Race

• Sputnik

• Arms Race

• Containment Policy

The divide between communist and non-communist Europe

• Iron Curtain

• Free enterprise

• Containment Policy

• Steel Curtain

Main goal of the US Cold War foreign policies?

• make sure US stayed a superpower

• reunite Korea and Vietnam

• prevent the spread of communism

• reunite Germany

Following WWII Germany was divided by the Allies

• True

• False

What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?

• To divide Berlin into 4 zones

• To deliver supplies in the communist zone of Berlin

• To deliver supplies in the free democratic zone of Berlin

• To get people out of West Berlin

Why are the years following WWII called the "boom years"?

• The rationing of goods stopped

• Americans no longer had to sacrifice for the war efforts

• The country experienced economic growth and prosperity

• The wages of returning soldiers increased across the country

The time when Americans feared "communist spies" were trying to overthrow the government

• Imperialism

• McCarthyism

• Socialism

• Communism

An effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• "Red" Scare Ended

• Peace talks for cease-fire

• the idea of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction)

• Soviet Union setup a blockade of Cuba