Cold War (Early Unit Stuff)

What was the main foreign policy of the U.S. government during the 1950s and 60s?

• fighting the threat of terrorism

• securing new trade relationships

• prosecuting human rights violations

• containing the spread of communism

Which group was created in response to the formation of NATO?

• Warsaw Pact

• Central Intelligence Agency

• Office of Strategic Services

• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The "Iron Curtain" refers to a divide between which two groups?

• colonies and colonial powers

• Allied- and Axis-controlled territory

• industrialized and nonindustrialized nations

• US and Soviet spheres of influence

What were the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine intended to do?

• prevent a nuclear arms race

• stop the spread of communism

• help Asian countries recover from war

• support former European colonies

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• keep East Germany from becoming a communist satellite

• protect Berlin from invasion by the Soviet Union

• prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

• stop communist spies from infiltrating West Berlin

Which term best describes this image?

• Domino Theory

• Massive Retaliation

• Flexible Response

• Covert Activities

Which of the following organizations was created by the Allied Forces to prevent future wars, protect human rights, and keep the peace in the world after WWII ended?

• The League of Nations

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• The United Nations

• The Warsaw Pact

At the end of WWII, tension started increasing between which two countries?

• Britain and the Soviet Union

• China and the Soviet Union

• The US and the Soviet Union

• France and China

Why did tension exist between the West and the East at the end of WWII?

• Eastern Europe wanted the US to give Germany complete independence

• Communism began to spread in Eastern Europe and this was a threat to Western Europe and the US

• Czechoslovakia wanted freedom from the Soviet Union

• The West were Capitalists and the East were Communists

An imaginary line that seperated commuinst coutnries from non-communist countries was called

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Command Economy