WH-Cold War-Final Review

What was the purpose of the US Marshall Plan?

• To rebuild the economies of Asia and Africa

• To rebuild the economies of Europe

•  To dominate Western European nations

• To reunite Germany into a single country

Major rivals in the Cold War were

• Great Britain and the US

• US and the USSR

•  China and the USSR

• Germany and Italy

The Great Leap Forward called for

• increasing private ownership of land

•  taking over North and South Korea

•  turning cooperative farms into communes

• a new alliance with the Soviet Union

What is Churchill referring to in his “Iron Curtain” speech?

•  The division between Eastern and Western Europe

• A new weapon of mass destruction

• The use of walls to separate borders between countries

• The creation of a new alliance in Europe

NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was set up as a(an)

•  economic alliance to rebuild Europe

•  political alliance to bring together the world

• military alliance to protect against communism

• Asian alliance to help spread communism

Why did the East German government build a wall through Berlin in 1961?

• To increase tourism by separating economies

• To stop Westerners from entering

• To stop nuclear build-up

•  To stop citizens from fleeing East Germany

The US policy that provided military and economic aid to contain communism was known as

•  the domino theory

•  the Warsaw Pact

• the Truman Doctrine

• NATO

During the Cold War, the primary goal of the US was to

• protect human rights

•  return to isolationism

• stop the spread of communism

• create a world without war

What is the domino theory?

• The strategy of dropping strings of bombs to destroy large areas

•  The belief that if one country entered a war, neighboring countries would also fight

• The belief that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would quickly follow

•  A system for aiding South Vietnam and South Korea

 In both the Korean and Vietnam War, the _________ was communist and the __________ was capitalist.

• North/West

•  East/West

•  North/South

• South/North