Post WWII & Cold War

What did Americans fear after the end of WWII?

• The spread of democracy

• The spread of NATO

• The spread of communism

• The spread of capitalism

The iron curtain was an actual wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin. At first it was a barbed wire fince, but later it changed to become a 12-foot high and 4-foot wide concrete wall.

• True

• False

The Soviet Union place missiles in Cuba that were pointed toward the U.S. Why did this worry the United States?

• The U.S. worried that Cuba would become communist

• The U.S. worried that Nikita Khrushchev would get hurt

• The U.S. worried that they would lose the territories that they gained during the Spanish American War

• The U.S. worried that a nuclear war might start

Which of the following events brought the world close to a nuclear war in the 1960s?

• Space Race

• Dropping of the atomic bomb

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

An alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 by the leaders of several non-communist countries. Why was NATO formed?

• to drop supplies to the people of East Berlin by the Berlin Airlift

• to turn the Cold War hot

• to keep the USSR from forcing communism on other countries

• to encourage all of Western Europe that they should have a democratic government and a capitalist economy

Who is the Soviet leader that helped Fidel Castro set up a communist government in Cuba and hid nuclear missiles in Cuba?

• Joseph McCarthy

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Kruschev

• Joseph Stalin

What is it called when ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services?

• capitalism

• pure market economy

• totalitarianism

• communism

What alliance was formed to stop the spread of communism?

• the Allied Powers

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Western European Union (WEU)

• Warsaw Pact

How did Cuba's proximity to the United States affect the way John F. Kennedy felt about the missiles placed by Nikita Kruschchev?

• Kennedy was not worried because Cuba was too far away for missiles to hit the United States

• Kennedy was extremely worried because Cuba was only 90 miles from Florida

Which of the following events does the image most likely depict?

• the metaphorical "Iron Curtain"

• the actual Berlin Wall

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

• the territories that the U.S. gained near the Gulf of Mexico