WSP Cold War Quiz Review

countries that intentionally stayed out of the Cold War conflict

• nonaligned nations

• third world

• Berlin Blockade

• Warsaw Pact

An imaginary line in Europe separating nations of the West, such as the United States and European countries, and the Soviet Union and its allies.

• United Nations

• Western Bloc

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

not under American or the Soviet economic and political influence

• brinksmanship

• third world

• containment

• NATO

closest the world came to nuclear war; Soviet were trying set up missile launch sites close to the US but had to back down

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Blockade

The Soviet Union cuts off access to a city; the US airlifts supplies

• Berlin Blockade

• nonaligned nations

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

a principle of US foreign policy to prevent the expansion of Communist power

• Containment

• brinkmanship

• third world

• Cold War

Nations that supported the United States during the Cold War

• Eastern Bloc

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Western Bloc

Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, started by helping Greece and Turkey.

• United Nations

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Blockade

• Iron Curtain

A military and defense alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America, including the United States

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• Nonaligned Nations

A conflict where the opposing sides do not fight with each other directly

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Blockade

• Cold War