COLD WAR TEST

What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift, between the years 1948 and 1949?

• To bring necessary supplies to assist the Communists after World War II.

• It was designed to help citizens in France to resist Communism.

• Moving Allied soldiers to help fight the Nazis during World War II.

• To supply the citizens of West Berlin while the Soviet blockade continued.

The United States Foreign Policy after World War II was the policy of Containment, which was?

• The U.S. would try to restrict the spread of Fascism in Europe.

• The U.S. would help to rebuild the nations of Japan and Germany.

• Due to the importance, the U.S. would increase spending into the Space Race.

• The U.S. would try to prevent the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.

What was the "Iron Curtain"?

• Weapons development for the Soviet Army

• The installment of European isolationist policies

• The barrier between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War

• A series of military checkpoints in Berlin

​ To defeat the Soviet ​ (a)   of Berlin, the United States supplied the city for over a year during an event known as ​ (b)   .

• blockade
• the Berlin Airlift
• Iron Curtain
• Warsaw Pact
• United Nations
• superpower
• containment
• the Marshall Plan
• the Truman Doctrine

What was the true major concern of the opposing forces in the Space Race?

• One country would land on the moon first

• One country would claim the other planets before another could

• One country would have military dominance using space weaponry

The launch of Sputnik I intensified Cold War tensions and caused the —

• United States to increase spending on technology, education and weapons to compete with the Soviet Union

• Soviet Union to move missiles and warships to Cuba in order to threaten the United States

• United States to send troops and aid to East Berlin to free it from Soviet control

• Soviet Union to threaten Europe with nuclear attack if Soviet airspace were violated

What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?

• Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz

• Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare

• Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor

• Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl

What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Big Stick Policy

What was the cause of the Warsaw Pact alliance?

• the Cold War

• the end of WWII

• NATO alliance

• difference of opinions

What is containment?

• Truman's policy to stop spread of communism

• the Cold War

• Truman's plan to help Western Europe after WWII

• the alliance between the USSR and its territories