The Cold War

What was the Marshall Plan?

• A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted American supremacy in Western Europe

• US Ambassador Phillip Marshall's proposal for peace between the US and the Soviet Union

• A covert CIA plot to overthrow Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev

• The US initiative to help Europe rebuild after WWII

All of the following are true about the Iron Curtain except:

• The Soviet Union was on one side and the United States was on the other

• It divided Europe in half

• Winston Churchill named it

• In 1989, happy German citizens chipped away pieces of it as the

The Truman Doctrine was a policy of:

• Using small-yield nuclear weapons against America's communist enemies

• A corollary to the Marshall Plan which added Portugal and Spain to NATO

• Aiding any country or group fighting against communism in order to stop it from spreading

• America's use of the atom bomb against communist revolutionaries on Bikini Atoll

What was McCarthyism?

• The philosophy that used fear of communism to promote one's own agenda

• Another name for detente; named for Senator Joseph McCarthy, an avid support of world peace

• The mutually beneficial political policy that led to a treaty between the US and the USSR

• The philosophy that used fear of capitalism to promote American businesses

The Berlin Airlift was

• A US Air Force project to fly German residents out of East Berlin during Soviet occupation

• A top secret WWII era plan to take over Germany

• The US and the UK flying food, fuel, and supplies to Berlin after the Soviets blocked it off

• The German national soccer team that inspired the German people to unite in 1963

The Second Red Scare:

• Was due, in part, to the successful Communist Revolution in China

• Caused some Hollywood actors to be "blacklisted" ending their careers

• Led to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee

• All of the above

The 38th parallel was/is the

• Line of latitude that divides communist North Korea from democratic South Korea

• Line of longitude marking the boundary between Vietnam and Laos during the Vietnam War

• Approximate location of the Berlin Wall

• None of the above

The Korean War began when

• The United Nations sent troops to annex North Korea

• South Korea sent troops into the North to subdue the Marxist revolutionaries threatening Pyongyang

• Chinese troops invaded North KOrea

• North Korean troops invaded South Korea

Which of the following is not true of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

• The CIA trained some Cuban exiles who took part

• It was approved by President John F. Kennedy

• The goal was to begin a Cuban uprising against Fidel Castro

• It has gone down in history as one of the most successful American conflicts of the Cold War

What was the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's response to the thousands of people fleeing East Berlin for the West in the early 1960s?

• Glasnost

• The Berlin Wall

• The Iron Curtain

• Perestroika