Cold War Open- Note Quiz

Alliance created by the United States, Canada, and Western European countries during the Cold War.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• G7

Policy of stopping the spread of communism; not letting it go any further than it already was.

• containment

• diplomacy

• nation building

• isolationism

Churchill's phrase that came to represent the division between mostly democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Maginot Line

US program of assisting Western European countries economically in an effort to ward off communism.

• Marshall Plan

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Berlin Airlift

Alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.

• Warsaw Pact

• The Marshall Plan

• NATO

• The Berlin Wall

The willingness by both countries (US and USSR) to go to the edge of war.

• Brinkmanship

• Coercion

• Deterrence

• Diplomacy

How was the Soviet Union involved in the Korean War?

• the Soviet Union installed a communist government in North Korea

• the Soviet Union installed a communist government in South Korea

• the Soviet Union allied themselves with Korea and declared war on the US

• the Soviet Union was attempting to invade all of Korea despite intervention by the US

How was the Korean War resolved?

What event was the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

• The Vietnam War

• Korean War

What was one agreement that came about as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?