At the end of WWII, who was the Soviet Leader?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Otto Von Bismark

After World War II, an international body of countries was created to ensure peace?

• The League of Nations

• The United Nations

• The Allied Powers

• The Triple Alliance

In 1948, the Soviets closed Allied access to West Berlin causing a lack of supplies and aid. To combat this act, how did the U.S. come to help the people of West Berlin?

• Using airlifts to keep them supplied

• Threatening nuclear war

• Introducing the Marshall Plan

• Tearing down the Berlin Wall

During the Eisenhower presidency, a policy was put to use as a threat to use nuclear weapons in response to any Communist threats became known as what policy?

• Flexible Response

• Preemptive Strike

• Brinksmanship

• The Iron Curtain

Fearing Western aggression, the Soviet Union linked itself with 7 other Eastern European countries under what agreement?

• The Warsaw Pact

• The Yalta Pact

• The NATO Alliance

• The Mutual Assistance Pact

Under which president was a doctrine established to contain, rather than eliminating, Communism?

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy

The U.S. began secretly spying on Soviet operations using what high-altitude plane?

• U-2

• B-17

• F-117

• X-35

During the Kennedy administration, this was a failed attempt to drive Fidel Castro from power in Cuba?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cuban Revolution

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Tide Pool of Marmosets

President Kennedy met with this Soviet leader in Vienna to discuss a nuclear disarament deal?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Georgi Bolshakov

• Harry Truman

To protect itself from Western enemies, the Soviet Union set up friendly satellite nations across Eastern Europe to create a communist bloc. This division between the Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic and Capitalist Western Europe was called what? The term was first used by Winston Churchill.

• The Iron Curtain

• The Red Stain