U.S. Spring Final

The Marshall Plan was designed to 

• Prevent Soviet involvement in Angola.

• Make Western European nations stronger than nations under Soviet control.

• Restore the economic stability of European nations after WWII.

• Develop a comprehensive military strategy for the defense of Canada.

 West Berlin was   

• A city entirely surrounded by East German territory.

• A city entirely surrounded by West German territory.

• Divided into French, British, American sectors.

• Divided into two sectors at the border of East and West Germany.

The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would provide____________ to  nations threatened by Communist expansion

• Money

• Jeeps

• Communications technology

• Political support in the United Nations

The Warsaw Pact sought to

• Provide economic assistance to Polish Jews after WWII.

• Prevent Soviet expansion into Poland and Denmark.

• Create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various European nations.

• Create a plan for the reduction of nuclear weapons in Europe.

Which country sent soldiers into the Korean peninsula in order to drive back the UN forces?

• Soviet Union

• China

• France

• Vietnam

By agreeing to come to the aid of any member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that was attacked, the United States committed itself for the first time in its history to maintaining peace in Europe.

• True

• False

 When the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones of Germany in 1948, the Soviet Union responded by

• threatening to declare war.

• trying to undermine Germany’s economy.

• blockading West Berlin.

• organizing a military alliance.

President Harry Truman saw the Communist invasion of South Korea as a test of the _________________________ and ordered U.S. naval and air power into action.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• containment policy

• NATO alliance

Who was the leader of Russia when the phrase “Iron Curtain” was phrased?

• President Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

• President Truman

• Joseph McCarthy

What is the purpose of N.A.T.O?

• Countries joining together to end democracy

• Countries joining together to stop trade between the East and West.

• Countries joining together fend off attacks by other communist countries.

• Countries joining together to create one kind of currency (S).