The Cold War

What did the United States do after WWII to rebuild Europe?

• Marshall Plan 
• NATO 
• Containment
• Arms Race

Why is the Cold War considered a “cold” war, compared to WWII, a “hot” war?

• Most of the fighting took place in the cooler Northern Hemisphere
• The Soviet Union is located in a fairly cold area
• The Soviets and Americans never actually fought against one another with weapons
• The United States believed a nuclear war would end the seasons and it would be cold on Earth

In the years just after World War II, the United States attempted to prevent the spread of communism in Europe mainly by…

• taking over the governments of several Western European nations
• increasing opportunities for political refugees to settle in the United States
• holding a series of summit meetings with leaders of the Soviet Union
• establishing policies of economic and military aid for European nations

What is being depicted in the above picture in Cold War terms?

• Deterrent 
• Space Race 
• Domino Theory 
• Superpowers

The graph above shows the amount of nuclear weapons the U.S. and Soviet Union possessed during the Cold War. Which vocabulary word is this graph best illustrating?

• Nonallignment 
• Democratization
• Arms Race 
• Communism 

Which U.S. President during the 1980s aided in the collapse of the Soviet Union?

• John F. Kennedy
• Franklin Roosevelt 
• Ronald Reagan 
• George Bush

Why did the U.S. get involved in Vietnam, a country so small and so far away?

• Resources – they are rich and oil which our economy needs
• Containment – we wanted to stop the spread of Communism
• To Colonize – we wanted to build an American empire in Asia
• Democratize – we desired their government to become a democracy

Which of the following best describes the outcome of the Korean War?

• the South Koreans won the war and controlled all of Korea
• the North Koreans won the war and controlled all of Korea
• neither side won the war and Korea remains divided today
• the U.S. and Soviet Union took over the area

“To counter the possibility that the Western countries could not protect themselves against the Soviet Union, the Truman Administration formed a European-American alliance that would commit the United States to bolstering the security of Western Europe.”
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The above statement is describing which organization?

• The Big Three 
• NATO 
• Warsaw Pact 
• Marshall Plan

The organization that the Soviet Union created in response to the defense alliance created by the United States consisting of communist allies to the USSR was

• NATO

• the United Nations

• the satellite nations

• the Warsaw Pact