Cold War Intro

The Strategy of Containment began under the presidency of . .

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Harry S Truman

• Barack Obama

Containment called for

• Facing off against the Soviet Union in battle

• Preventing the spread of Soviet influence

• Dismantling Communism in Europe

• Defeating Germany in World War II

Which strategy argued that "if the U.S. pushed the Communists to the brink of war, they would back down due to our nuclear superiority"?

• Brinkmanship

• Flexible Response

• Detente

• Reagan Doctrine

The President responsible for introducing "Brinkmanship" was

• Harry S Truman

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• Lyndon Baines Johnson

• George W. Bush

After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was..

• China

• France

• Japan

• the Soviet Union

The Truman Doctrine assumed

• the United States would only help democratic governments in its quest against communism.

• communism had already been defeated.

• the United States would first and foremost focus on its internal problems.

• the United States would provide aid to any anticommunist regime, even if it was not a democratic one.

The “Iron Curtain”

• separated south and north Vietnam.

• isolated Japan from the world economy.

• was a term used in reference to the division between the capitalist West and the communist East.

• was a term used to ridicule the Soviet Union.

The Marshall Plan

• assumed economic prosperity and promoted communism.

• was broadly capitalist, but incorporated a few key Marxist ideals.

• did not reach its objectives and was rapidly canceled.

• was popularized by the use of the slogan “Prosperity Makes You Free.”

When did The Cold War start?

• 1947

• 1980

• 1950

• 1935

How did the Soviet Union call the states around it?

• Spy States

• Buffer States

• New States

• Neutral States