Cold War Review

Which of these conditions was an economic cause of the Cold War in Europe?

• Stalin resented the fact that the Western Allies had delayed the invasion of France during the war

• Truman failed to share the secrets of the atomic bomb at the Potsdam Conference

• The United States had a capitalist system while the Soviet Union had a Communist system with central planning

• Stalin felt the Soviet Union had the right to establish a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe

How was the Marshall Plan designed to discourage the spread of Communism in Europe?

• By joining European nations together into the European Union

• By restoring economic stability to the nations of Western Europe

• By providing military assistance to France, Great Britain and Italy

• By establishing freely elected governments in Poland and Czechoslovakia

Which foreign policy did American leaders follow in response to these events?

• They decided to ignore the threat of Soviet expansion

• They threatened to go to war against the Soviet Union

• They attempted to contain Communism and prevent its further spread

• They attempted to cooperate with Soviet leaders against common enemies

What threat was President Truman referring to in the speech above?

• A regional war between India and Pakistan

• The spread of Communism to Greece and Turkey

• Communist infiltration in the US State Department

• Vietnamese resistance to the continuation of imperialism

Which action was a later response to the organization created by this treaty?

• Formation of the Warsaw Pact

• Announcement of the Marshall Plan

• Falling of the Iron Curtain over Eastern Europe

• Application of the Eisenhower Doctrine to Lebanon

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

• Stalin cut supply routes to democratic W. Berlin

• Stalin allowed free access to W Berlin by railroad and air

• Stalin built a wall in Berlin to separate East and West Berliners

• Stalin united all the Allied sectors of Berlin under one city government

Which foreign policy goal led to the instructions issued in the document above?

• American leaders wanted to prevent China from taking over North Korea

• American leaders wanted to unite North and South into one democratic republic

• American leaders wanted to maintain military bases in both North and South Korea

• American leaders wanted to prevent Communist North Korea from taking over South Korea

What was the primary purpose for President Harry S Truman's order issued in 1947?

• To eliminate racial segregation in the US armed services

• To provide assistance to all free peoples fighting Communism

• To remove Communist sympathizers from the federal government

• To prevent the Soviets from developing their own nuclear weapons

What did the Western European and Northern American Nations meet in Washington DC to sign?

• Iron Curtain

• McCarthyism

• Marshall Plan

• North Atlantic Treaty

Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the State Department of having a large number of Communist sympathizers, although he was never able to prove his claim. Today, _________ stands for making exaggerated anti-Communist accusations without any real evidence.

• McCarthyism
• Marshall Plan

• Natzism