Cold War Pretests

The US and its allies formed this group.

• United Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• NAFTA

Announcement by the President in 1947 that the US would assist countries under threat from communist or Soviet influence

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

Provided economic aid to countries destroyed in World War 2

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

Military operation to provide food and supplies to a city blockaded by Soviet Union

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

In the period following World War II, the US developed a policy of containment mainly in response to the

• Perceived threat of Soviet expansion

• Building of the Berlin Wall

• Partition of Palestine

• Spread of nuclear weapons

The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the Berlin Airlift are examples of the United States foreign policy of

• Colonialism

• Detente

• Nonalignment

• Containment

This program assisted soldiers when they returned to civilian life

• Selective Service Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• G.I. Bill

• Baby Boom

What happened as a result of the increase in U.S. births that began in 1942

• the decline of family farming

• The spread of new diseases

• The reduction of defense spending

• The growth of suburbs

A society that purchases a new washing machine, a new car, and a new vacuum would be an example of what

• sellers market

• scarcity

• incentives

• consumerism

This new technology helped spur consumerism through advertising

• Washing Machine

• TV

• Cars

• All of these