SSUSH 20 Cold War Review US History

The original purpose of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was to

• prevent another world war.

• form a 10-year plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe.

• create free trade between all nations.

• provide for a defense pact against possible Soviet aggression.

Which word BEST describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?

• appeasement

• indifference

• containment

• elimination

In the years immediately following World War II, events in what country threatened to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union?

• Japan

• Cuba

• Vietnam

• Germany

Which one of these took place because of Greece and Turkey's attempts to resist the spread of Communism?

• Harry Truman announced the "Truman Doctrine" plan to aid any country in such a situation.

• Harry Truman approved a covert operation to assassinate communist leaders in the two nations.

• Soviet and American troops fought in the Mediterranean.

• Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania joined them to resist Soviet influence.

The most significant result of the Marshall Plan was that it

• ended the expansion of Soviet influence in Europe.

• discouraged the creation of the European Common Market.

• increased U.S. control over Latin American economies.

• helped to restore the economy of western Europe.

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."- Harry Truman, 1947In this quote from President Truman, the "outside pressures" which might attempt to subjugate free peoples are most likely from

• Latin America.

• Western Europe.

• Communist powers.

• newly independent African countries.

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes." - President Harry S Truman, March 12, 1947 This speech by President Truman represents which Cold War policy of the United States?

Responses

• nuclear disarmament

• mutually assured destruction

• brinkmanship

• containment

Which of these BEST describes why the United States became involved in what is known as the Korean War?

• The Soviet Union was attempting to invade North Korea, which would have put South Korea's democratic government in jeopardy.

• The U.S knew the Soviet Union had installed missiles in North Korea.

• Ho Chi Minh was leading a guerilla war against non-communist forces in the South.

• The U.S. feared that communist-controlled North Korea would take full control of the Korean Peninsula.

Which group was created during the Cold War to unify all of the member countries against communist aggression?

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• League of Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

The United States involved itself in Vietnam in the 1960s because

• American businesses in Vietnam were threatened by the Communists.

• Japan was threatened militarily by the possibility of a Communist government in Vietnam.

• the American people demanded the government support Vietnam.

• it feared that if Vietnam became communist then surrounding countries would quickly follow.

• it had been a staging area for the resupply of North Korean troops in the Korean War.