Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

Established in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance consisting of member states from North America and Europe; established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty; member states help defend each other from a Soviet takeover.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• 38th Parallel

Founded in 1945, the UN is an intergovernmental organization tasked with maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• 38th Parallel

1947 American foreign policy by President Harry Truman that provided immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Turkey and Greece and included the policy of containment (restricting the spread of communism).

• Iron Curtain

• Truman Docterine

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall

Known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, and signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven Easter Bloc satellite states of central and easter Europe in May 1955.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• 38th Parallel

1948 Also known as the European Recovery Program, an American initiative to aid western Europe where the US gave over twelve billion in economic assistance to help rebuild western Europe after WWII.

• Iron Curtain

• Truman Docterine

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall

The boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991.

• Iron Curtain

• Truman Docterine

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall

Name given to the latitude 38 degrees north that roughly signifies the division of North and South Korea

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• 38th Parallel

Individuals who wanted war in Vietnam. They believed that the aggression of the North Vietnamese forced the U.S. into war.

• Doves

• Hawks

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Brinksmanship

Campaign against alleged Communism in the US government and other institutions carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the late 1940s-1950s.

• McCarthyism

• HUAC

• Sputnik

• Bay of Pigs

June 1948-May 1949 The US begins a massive airlift of food, water and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin, sustaining two million people.

• Iron Curtain

• Truman Docterine

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall