Cold War

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To expand trade with Europe
• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons
• To stop the spread of communism
• to send financial aid to Europe

Who overthrew China during the Cold War and created a Communist government there?

• Miguel Gorbachev
• Fidel Castro
• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh

South Korea was supported by ________________ which has a _________________ government.

• Soviet Union/communist

• Soviet Union/democratic

• U.S.A./communist

• U.S.A./democratic

The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Fidel Castro

• None of the above

What did the US secretly agree to do in order to get the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba?

• Pay 53 million dollars

• Move their military base to Alaska

• Remove the United States's Missiles from Turkey

• Supply Cuba with more missiles

Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?

• An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
• An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
• A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
• A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected

During the Cold War, what policy did the U.S. follow to stop the spread of communism?

• Open Door Policy

• Big Stick Policy

• Containment Policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

Which of these describes the "Arms Race?"

• The United States and Soviet Union competing to make superior sattelites

• The US and Soviet Union fighting over space technology

• The US and Soviet Union competing to make more powerful nuclear weapons

• The population boom competition between the US and Soviet Union

Why couldn't the US and Soviet Union get into a major war after the 1950s?

• They would have no support from NATO or the Warsaw Pact if they did

• The United Nations would kick these founding members out for going to war

• It would cause mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.) killing everyone

• It would cause the rest of the world to declare war on both sides

How did the United States work to challenge the Soviet Union in the "Space Race" after Sputnik?

• They sent spies to copy Soviet space secrets

• War was declared on the Soviet Union

• The US put nuclear missiles closer to the Soviet Union

• NASA was created and the US spent more on math and science education to make engineers.