Beginning of the Cold War

The Cold War was a heightened economic and political conflict between which two main countries?

• India/Pakistan

• USA/China

• USA/England

• USA/USSR

A policy aimed at containing the spread of communism and providing economic aid to countries threatened by Soviet expansion.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• McCarthyism

A major component of the Truman doctrine, offering financial aid to Western European countries to rebuild after WWII.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• McCarthyism

Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• McCarthyism

What is Capitalism?

• Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit

• political theory leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

What is Communism?

• Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit

• political theory leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

True or False: political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s was known as McCarthyism.

• True

• False

• neither

Congress approve to first help out which two countries in the new Truman Doctrine?

• Germany/France

• Greece/Italy

• USA/Soviet Union

• Greece/Turkey

The Soviet Union constructed what to divide up Berlin to keep the capitalist and communist sections apart.

• Nothing

• The Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Trench

• The Berlin Airlift

The U.S. led response to deliver essential supplies to West Berlin by air for over a year was known as?

• Dropping of the atomic bombs

• The Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Airlift

• Pearl Harbor