US Foreign Policy Post WWII - Cold War

Plan after WWII to give billions of dollars to Western Europe in an effort to stop the spread of Communism.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Nato

• Iron curtain

Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, mainly to help Greece and Turkey.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshal Plan

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Domino Theory

A military and defense alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America. And the first peace time alliance in US History and the most important for the past 60 years.

• NATO

• WARSAW

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

U.S. Policy to prevent the spread of communism

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

The Period of tension between the US & Soviet Union is called...

• Cold Cooperation

• Cold Tolerance

• Cold War

• Cold World War

Why was the United States involved in the Berlin Airlift?

• to airlift food to the people of West Berlin
• to bomb East Berlin
• to demolish the Berlin Wall
• to transport people out of East Berlin

The physical barrier separating Communist East Berlin and Democratic West Berlin--

• Berlin Bloackade
• Berlin Base
• Berlin Wall
• Berlin Barrier

Nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union were called--

• European Nations
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Satellite Nations

An alliance formed to stop the spread of communism is called ___________.

• NATO
• UN
• Axis Powers
• Allied Powers

Why is it called the Cold War?

• Most of the fighting happened in Siberia.

• They did not want to call it World War 3.

• US and USSR didn't directly fight each other.

• US and USSR wouldn't talk to each other at all; giving the cold shoulder.