Cold War

The Marshall Plan

• provided money and food to help western European nations

• gave more power to the president to identify communist spies in the US

• was the plan to feed starving Berliners

• united the American armed forces

United States was worried about Greece and Turkey. Why?

• They Loved Thanksgiving
• They were both surrounded by Communist
• WW2 had left them too Rich
• Iron Curtain had fallen on them

Which two nations emerged as superpowers after WWII?

• Soviet Union and Germany

• US and Great Britain

• France and Great Britain

• US and Soviet Union

The US and the Soviet Union were stockpiling weapons in an effort to have more weapons than the other side. This was called...

• the Korean War

• the Manhattan Project

• the arms race

• disarmament talks

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...

• helped the CIA break a Soviet spy ring

• supported Senator McCarthy in exposing communists

• were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union

• Opposed the Soviet blockade of Berlin

Which best describes communism?

• Government is not involved in economy

• Business owners sell shares of their companies to the government

• Government is involved in planning and production

• Investment is encouraged by government

The Soviet Union forced much of Eastern Europe to become communist. These nations became under the Soviet's Sphere of influence.

• Wall of Britian
• Settlement Colonys
• Satellite States
• Deterrents

United States gives huge amounts of money to European countries to rebuild after WW2.

• Marshall Plan
• Containment
• Truman Doctrine
• Iron Curtain

Churchill called the imaginary line between Soviet satellite states and western Europe.....

• NATO

• The Iron Curtain

• The Berlin Wall

• The Great Wall

Poland, USSR, Hungary, East Germany, and others formed a military alliance during the Cold War.

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Allied Powers
• Axis Powers