Post World War II I

What did Churchill call the dividing line between the East & West?

• The Iron Curtain

• The Steel Drape

• The Aluminum Blind

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

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

• prevent a nuclear arms race

• halt the spread of communism

• help Asian countries recover from war

• support former European colonies

This involved giving roughly $12 billion to Western European countries, in order to help them rebuild after WWII

• Truman Doctrine

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

Answer explanation

After the Truman Doctrine worked out, we went BIGGER and spent even more money to try to contain communism

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

Why was the US concerned about the spread of communism at the end of WWII?

• The Soviets were supporting communist parties in Eastern European countries

• Eastern European that were rebuilding were being influenced by communist parties within their countries

• Because socialism/communism threatens the economic and individual freedoms in a constitutional republic

• All of the above

Who didn't we share the plan to build the atomic bomb with?

• USA
• UAE
• USSR
• User Error

Which 2 superpowers were involved in the Cold War?

• Britain and the Soviet Union
• France and Germany
• Japan and the Soviet Union
• The U.S. and the Soviet Union

When soldiers returned from WWII, a change in population that occurred was:

• The movement of Native Americans to the West coast
• The boom in birth rates
• a movement of African Americans to eastern cities
• The high casualty rate resulting in massicve numbers of orphans

A competition between nations to build powerful weapons is called ___________.

• Arms Race
• Blockade
• Space Race
• Atomic Bomb