U.S. Strategies in Containing Communism Quiz

Organize these characteristics into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Capitalism

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(b) Communism

• Privately owned industry

• Rule by one or a few

• Atheism

• Elections

• Collectivism

• Goal: eliminate inequality

• Religious Freedom encouraged

• Democratic

• leads to rich and poor

• Government controls industry

What was the primary goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To provide economic aid to developing countries

• To support countries that rejected communism

• To establish military bases in Europe

• To promote democracy worldwide

What was the main purpose of the Marshall Plan?

• To rebuild European economies after World War II

• To establish a new currency in Europe

• To create a military alliance against the Soviet Union

• To spread communism in Eastern Europe

Which organization was founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation between countries?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

NATO was primarily established as a response to what?

• The formation of the Warsaw Pact

• The threat of nuclear war

• The spread of communism in Europe

• Economic instability in Western Europe

Which of the following was a military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites?

• NATO

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• SEATO

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was a doctrine that assumed which of the following?

• Only one superpower would survive a nuclear war

• Nuclear weapons should never be used

• Any nuclear conflict would result in the total destruction of both the attacker and the defender

• Nuclear weapons could be used in a limited way without escalating to full-scale war

Proxy wars during the Cold War were primarily fought for what reason?

• To gain territorial control

• To test new military technology

• To influence or control areas without direct military conflict between the superpowers

• To establish new nations

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were both examples of what U.S. policy?

• Isolationism

• Containment

• Imperialism

• Non-interventionism

Which of the following countries was a key focus of the Truman Doctrine?

• Vietnam

• Korea

• Greece

• Germany