24-25 Cold War Test

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were similar in that they were both

• Part of the larger containment policy

• Designed to assist an economic recovery program in Eastern Europe

• Issued in response to the construction of the Berlin Wall

• Articulated by diplomatic adviser George Kennan

The post-WWII policy designed to block the spread of communism was called

• Containment

• The Truman defense

• Executive Order 9066

• Domino Theory

That period of time after World War II in which the United States and Soviet Union engaged in a war of ideologies was known as…

• The Cold War

• World War III

• The U.S./Soviet Conflict

• The Red Scare

What is the first significant crisis of the Cold War?

• The construction of the Berlin Wall

• The Korean War

• The Vietnam War

• The Berlin Blockade

The Cuban Missile Crisis was ultimately caused by which of the following?

• The discovery of Soviet troops in Cuba

• The discovery of Japanese missiles in Cuba

• American blockade of Cuba

• The discovery of offensive Soviet missiles in Cuba

Who was the first person to set foot on the moon?

• Alan Shepard

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gagarin

•  Neil Armstrong

The Marshall Plan was

• An economic plan to rebuild the Soviet Union

• An economic plan to rebuild western Europe

• A plan designed to repair America’s infrastructure

• A plan designed to rebuild southeast Asia

Why was the Chinese Civil War seen as a failure of the policy of containment?

• China was split in two, with a Communist North and a Democratic South

• China became Communist, with only a small portion remaining free

• China became Democratic but swore allegiance to the USSR

• China became Communist but swore allegiance to the US

NATO and the Warsaw Pact both had the function of:

• Creating an agreement between nations to support each other in supporting a certain type of government

• Creating a massive nation under one government

• Promoting Communism

• Promoting Capitalism and Democracy

The U.S. and the USSR never engaged in direct combat with each other

• True

• False