Cold War Review

This map best reflects which turning point in history?

•    formation of the United Nations

• Birth of the European Union 

•     end of European empires

•    start of the Cold War

One action taken by the United States in response to the situation shown on the map was to

• return to a foreign policy of isolationism

• attack Soviet-controlled territories

• help form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• sign trade agreements with nations taken over by the Soviet Union

As a result of the situation shown on the map, the foreign policy of the United States during the administration of President Harry Truman was dominated by the belief that

• communist expansion in Europe should be contained

• cooperation with the Soviet Union should be strengthened.

• satellite nations of the Soviet Union should not be recognized as legal states

• economic aid was not likely to help nations in Western Europe

The Marshall Plan created by Secretary of State George Marshall identified the need to

• provide economic assistance to struggling European nations

• allow European workers to settle in the United States

• install democratic governments in the nations of Western Europe

• To open a chain of stores in Eastern Europe

The situation in Europe described by Secretary of State George Marshall was the result of the

• failure of the United Nations to help people in need

• devastation caused by fighting in World War II

• construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union

• takeover of Greece and Turkey by communists

Which Soviet Union action led to the situation shown in this map?

• blockade of Berlin

•     creation of the Warsaw Pact

•                 reunification of Germany

• construction of the Berlin Wall

The situation shown on the map was primarily the result of the

• Demand for money from Great Britain

• continuing disagreement among wartime Allies about Germany’s future

• War crime trials for Nazi Leaders

• to bring a unified Germany into the United Nations

The air corridors shown on the map were used during the airlift in 1948 and 1949 to

• bomb the city of Berlin

• fly combat troops into the Soviet sector

• prevent a Soviet invasion of West Germany

• overcome a Soviet blockade of Berlin in East German

What was the purpose of the Berlin airlift?

• help people escape from East Berlin

• helping defeat the German military

• supplying West Berlin with necessities during the Soviet blockade

• Force Soviet Union out of East Germany

In 1947, to support "free peoples" President Truman and Congress appropriated $400 million to

• rebuild public schools in poor areas

• fight Communism in Greece and Turkey

• enact desegregation policies in the south

• support left-wing liberation movements in Africa