Cold War Background

What was the name of the policy that aimed to contain the spread of communism?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Berlin Airlift

Which war was fought between North and South Korea from 1950 to 1953? a. World War II

• Cold War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

What was the name given to the imaginary line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe?

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Bamboo Curtain

• Great Wall of China

What was the name of the American aid program to rebuild Europe after World War II?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Bretton Woods Agreement

What was the name given to the idea that if one superpower launched a nuclear attack, the other would respond with overwhelming force?

• Cold War Doctrine

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Nuclear Deterrence

• Balance of Power

What was the name of the spy plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960?

• U-2 Incident

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

The Berlin Airlift was a response to which event?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

• The Soviet blockade of West Berlin

• The end of World War II

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense standoff between which two countries?

• The United States and Russia

• China and the United States

• The United States and Cuba

• The Soviet Union and China

Brinkmanship refers to the policy of:

• Establishing economic sanctions against a foreign power

• Negotiating a peace treaty between two nations

• Engaging in military exercises with an ally

• Taking a country to the brink of war to achieve a diplomatic objective

Capitalism is an economic system based on:

• Government regulation and taxation

• Private ownership and control of property and resources

• Collective ownership and control of resources

• Cooperative ownership and control of property and resources