Post WWII/Cold War Unit Test Review

The Cold War can be defined as a state of tension without fighting between ___ and ___.

• China, the Soviet Union

• the United Kingdom, the United States

• the United States, the Soviet Union

• Germany, the Soviet Union

___ was created toward the end of World War II to prevent a future war from occurring.

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• The United Nations

• The Warsaw Pact

• The Marshall Plan

The Korean War began when...

• North Korea invaded South Korea.

• South Korea invaded North Korea.

After WWII, ___ Truman Doctrine vowed to support and protect any country that was threatened with a Communist invasion. 

• Germany's

• Japan's

• the Soviet Union's

• the United States'

After the successful completion of the Berlin Airlift in 1949, the same year the United States joined nine ___ countries, including Iceland and Canada, to form the ___.

• Eastern European, Warsaw Pact

• Western European, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Western European, United Nation

• Western European, Allied Powers

The fundamental economic and political differences between United States and the Soviet Union was that the U.S. believed in a ___and the Soviet Union believed in ___.

• free market/Capitalism & democracy,

  Communism/authoritarian state

• Communism/authoritarian state

  free market/Capitalism

• free market/authoritarian state

  Communism and democracy

• free market/ communism/democracy,

  authoritarian state, capitalism

The Korean War ended in a ___ in 1953 where the two countries remain divided at the ___ under a cease-fire agreement.

• victory for South Korea, 39th parallel

• stalemate, 39th parallel

• victory for North Korea, 38th parallel

• stalemate, 38th parallel

In 1957 ___ successfully launched the first satellite named Sputnik I into Space, which effectively began the ___ Race.

• the Soviet Union, Space

• the United States, Space

• the United States, Arms

• the Soviet Union, Arms

___ was divided into 4 sections by the United States, Great Britain, France, and ___ at the conclusion of WWII.

• Western Europe, Soviet Union

• Eastern Europe, Soviet Union

• Berlin, Soviet Union

• East Berlin, Soviet Union

Identify all of the characteristics that are representative of the United Nations.

• 50 nation members when it was created,,,

• Eleanor Roosevelt authored its Declaration of Human Rights.

• It was created to prevent future wars.

• It has over 190 member nations.