The Cold War

What was the "Iron Curtain"?

• Western allied European countries

• Soviet satelite states

• The US's secret weapons program for outerspace

• The Soviet's codename for installing pro-communism governments across the world

What was the Truman Doctrine (1947)? 

• Truman's policy of reducing immigration

• Soviet policy of providing assistance to any country fighting Democracy

• American military strategy for ending WWII

• American policy of providing assistance to any country fighting communism

What was the US's containment policy?

• Prevent Communism from spreading to new countries

• Overturn already installed Communist governements wherever they are found

• Get as many countries as possible to join NATO

• Ensure the number of Soviet nuclear warheads was "contained" within the US's amount of nuclear warheads

What was the Marshall Plan (1948)?

• The CIA's plan to replace Communist leaders in developing countries with anti-Communist leaders

• The US's plan to provide economic aid to Western countries

• The US's plan to provide economic aid to Asian countries

• The Soviet's plan to launch a sattelite into space

What was the Berlin airlift?

• The allied invasion plan of capturing Berlin during WWII

• Nazi Germany's secret project name for creating the V-2 rocket

• The evacutation of Democratic politicians during Germany's communist revolution

• The US, UK, and French effort of delivering food and supplies to West Berlin

True or False: NATO was created in response to the creation of the Warsaw Pact

• True

• False

What brought the US into the Korean War?

• The Democratic South attacking the Communist North to reunite the country under Democracy

• The invasion of South Korea by North Korea and the UN's resolution to intervene in the conflict

• Several US citizens on vacation in South Korea were kidnapped by the North

• South Korea offered the US billions of dollars to fight alongside them

True or False: The Warsaw Pact was created in response to the creation of NATO

• True

• False

What was the result of the Vietnamese War?

• A stalemate like the Korean War

• The unification of Vietnam under a Democratic government

• The unification of Vietnam under a Communist government

• The occupation of Vietnam by the United Nations

Who lanched the first Sattelite into space?

• The US

• The USSR

• China

• The UK