Unit 11: 1950s - The Truman Years

This program gave $12 billion in aid to 16 Western European countries.

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Domino Theory

• Open Door Policy

Which individual/group contributed to the Red Scare by accusing American citizens of being communist spies?

• McCarthy/HUAC

• NAACP/Farm Workers Union

• Nativists/Muckrakers

• Philanthropists/Entrepreneurs

During what Cold War event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade in Germany without provoking a military conflict?

• Berlin Airlift

• Vietnam War

• Watergate Scandal

• Bataan Death March

What was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that was a struggle between their ideologies of democracy and communism?

• World War III
• The Cold War
• The Marshall Plan
• Russian American War

What was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that was a struggle between their ideologies of democracy and communism?

• World War III
• The Cold War
• The Marshall Plan
• Russian American War

What was the alliance between the United States and nations of Western Europe that opposed the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• The Allies
• The Central Powers

Who warned Americans that communists might take over the USA from inside the United States government?

• John McCarthy
• Joseph McCarthy
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Nikita Khrushchev

Which two contries conducted the Berlin Airlift?

• The United States and France
• Great Britain and the United States
• Germany and Russia
• The United States and the Soviet Union

Why was the Cold War named such?

• It was only fought during winter.
• The soldiers did not have warm clothing.
• This war was fought using ideas and propaganda instead of guns.
• It was primarily fought in the north and south poles.