Cold War 1950s

Who did the GI Bill benefit when it was passed in 1944?

• Women

• Factory Workers

• Veterans

• Government Employees

What is the name of the generation of children born in the decade after WWII?

• Gen X

• Oldies

• Greatest Generation

• Baby Boomers

Which United States foreign policy is being referred to in this cartoon?

• Neutrality Act

• Atlantic Charter

• Truman Doctrine

• Manhattan Project

In this excerpt, Secretary of State George Marshall is identifying the need to...

• provide economic assistance to struggling European nations

• allow European workers to settle in the United States

• install democratic governments in the nations of Western Europe

• strengthen European military defenses

The situation in Europe described by Secretary of State George Marshall was the result of the...

• failure of the United Nations to help people in need

• devastation caused by fighting in World War II

• construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union

• takeover of Greece and Turkey by communists

Besides Germany, which two other locations were divided by the allies at the end of WWII?

• France

• Berlin

• Japan

• Amsterdam

• Korea

The United States responded to the Berlin blockade in 1948 by...

• boycotting German-made imports

• building the Berlin Wall

• stopping all traffic leaving Berlin

• airlifting food and supplies into Berlin

Organizing the Berlin Airlift, implementing the Marshall Plan, and fighting the Korean War were early events in the United States policy of...

• imperialism

• isolationism

• containment

• neutrality

Following World War II, the United States adopted the foreign policy of containment primarily to...

• return to pre-war isolationism

• limit the spread of communism

• force European nations to end colonialism

• limit the spread of fascism

With the "iron curtain" Winston Churchill warned the United States that Europe was threatened by...

• an embargo of its Middle East oil supplies

• the growth of fascism in Great Britain

• the expansion of communism in Eastern Europe

• a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union