Cold War Q's

The Cold War is best described as:

• a period of hostility and high tension between states that stops short of war

• a conflict of ideologies

• a war of words, propaganda and innuendo

• all of the above

Which of the following did not contribute to the outbreak of the Cold War in the 1940s:

• USSR discovering USA had nuclear weapons

• the Space Race

• The Berlin Blockade

• Competing Ideologies

The Iron Curtain is:

• A metaphorical term used to describe the establishment of communist governments in Eastern Europe by the USSR following WW2

• A large wall that was built to separate East Germany from West Germany (and which eventually encircled all of East Germany)

• A large iron structure that stretched from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, separating Eastern and Western Europe

• metaphorical term used to describe the relationship between Stalin and Roosevelt

Who came up with the term "Iron Curtain?"

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Winston Churchill

• Harry Truman

What was the Berlin Blockade?

• When a wall was put up to separate East & West Berlin by the Soviet Union to prevent people leaving

• When the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control

• Was a nationwide revolution against the German People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies

• When people were angry with the price of pretzels imposed by the Soviet Union so they blockaded bake houses

Which of the following countries would not have been regarded as being behind the Iron Curtain:

• Yugoslavia

• USSR

• Poland

• Romania

Which of the following would not be an element of communism?

• a classless society

• state ownership of the means of production

• a profit motive

• one political party

Which Cold War policy supported the containment of communism:

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Airlift

• Brinkmanship

The Truman Doctrine was:

• a policy proposed by US President Truman where the USA would provide troops to help any country that needed help to fight communism

• a policy proposed by US President Truman where the USA would provide financial aid to help European countries rebuild after WW2

•  a policy proposed by US President Truman where the USA would airlift supplies of food, medicine and coal to the people of West Berlin following the Berlin Blockade

• a policy proposed by US President Truman where the USA would lend money to any country that needed help to fight communism

What was the consequence of Senator Joseph McCarthy's search for communists within the United States during the 1950's?

• thousands of American citizens who believed in communism were either jailed or deported

• the reputations of many people were ruined by false accusations of disloyalty

• many high-ranking government officials were exposed as spies of the Soviet Union

• organised groups of Communists began a wave of violent political terrorism