The Cold War Review

What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?

• Spain and Portugal
• England and France
• Germany and Italy
• United States and Soviet Union

What was the term 'iron curtain' used to describe the division of?

• North and South Vietnam

• East and West Asia

• North and South Korea

• East and West Europe

Why was the United States involved in the Berlin Airlift?

• to airlift food to the people of West Berlin
• to bomb East Berlin
• to demolish the Berlin Wall
• to transport people out of East Berlin

Where was Korea divided?

• 36 parallel

• 34 parallel

• 38 parallel

• 28 parallel

How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?

• They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
• They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
• They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
• They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.

What was the mutual defense alliance of non communist nations?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Open Skies

What was the name for the 1955 alliance of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe  that were the counterpart to the western alliance?

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• European Alliance
• Iron Curtain

In 1946, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a speech that an "Iron Curtain" had fallen across the European continent. This "Iron Curtain" was ______________.

• a wall built between countries controlled by Nazi Germany and ones that weren't.

• another name for the Alps, which protected it from the USSR during the Cold War.

• an imaginary line separating Europe's communist and non-communist countries.

• a divider between the good and the evil.

A competition between nations to build powerful weapons is called ___________.

• Arms Race
• Blockade
• Space Race
• Atomic Bomb

What major historical event is represented in this map?

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Wright Brother's first flight
• The building of the Panama Canel