Period 4 Pt. 2 Review

Which of the following foreign policies gave financial aid to European nations to rebuild after WWII?

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Warsaw Pact
• Domino Theory

What was the political and military alliance of Western, non communist nations?

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

What was the for the alliance organization of Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe?

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• Triple Alliance

• United Soviet Socialist Republics

US President Harry Truman's policy of preventing the spread and expansion of communism was -

• Containment

• Deterrence

• Militarism

• Diplomacy

How did the Soviets begin the "Space Race" which started in 1957?

• They launched the first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)

• They launched the first artificial satellite named Sputnik into space

• They created the first space station

• They produced the largest hydrogen bomb ever

How did the United States challenge the Soviet Union in the "Space Race" after Sputnik was launched into orbit in 1957 ?

• American spies were sent to retrieve Soviet space secrets

• War was declared on the Soviet Union

• The US put nuclear missiles closer to the Soviet Union in Turkey and Italy

• NASA was created and the US spent more on math and science education to make engineers.

Which side of the wall was under the control of the Soviets?

• West
• East
• Both
• Neither

The "American War/Vietnam War" began because...

• The United States wanted to stop the spread of communism.

• The United States wanted to end the enslavement of the Vietnamese population by the Japanese during WWII.

• The French had begun to spread capitalism and freedom to communist countries, but ran out of funding to continue in Vietnam.

• The occupation after World War II led the nation to be divided in half, much like Berlin and Germany.

The dividing line between the democracies in blue and the Communist in red was referred to as what?

• The line of demarkation
• The DeMilitarized Zone
• The Iron Curtain
• The 38th Parallel

All of the following were results of the Soviet-American arms race during the Cold War EXCEPT

• Sputnik and the space race
• diminished military sizes and spending due to technology
• the Helsinki Accords
• was through third parties (wars by proxy)