AP Cold War

Why did FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference?

• settling major wartime issues of the Allied powers

• protecting the colonial empires of the warring nations

• setting up postwar aid for Great Britain

• sharing the development of atomic weapons

The Soviet Union believed in what political and economic system? (This system allows the government to control businesses and land.)

• Isolationalism
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Militarism

Which country was divided into four zones after WWII?

• Germany
• United States
• Japan
• Soviet Union

In the Iron Curtain speech, Winston Churchill warned the United States that Europe was threatened by...

• an embargo of its Middle East oil supplies

• the growth of fascism in Great Britain

• the expansion of communism in Eastern Europe

• a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union

The U.S policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad

• Marshall Plan

• Molotov Plan

• McCarthyism

• Containment

What was the first action by the United States to contain communism? (aid to Greece and Turkey)

• the Baruch Plan
•  the Four Freedoms
• the Long Telegram
• the Truman Doctrine

After WWII, the U.S. helped rebuild Western Europe's infrastructure, and stabilize their economies and governments through:

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Molotov Plan

• The Marshall Plan

• The Containment Plan

What was the result of the Berlin blockade?

• Military conflict escalated between the U.S & USSR

• Germany fell to communism

• The Cold War ended

• The U.S airlifted supplies to West Berlin

Which country was not included in the formation of NATO?

• US

• USSR

• Great Britain

• France

What was created by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?

• Warsaw Pact

• Berlin Wall

• Central Powers

• The Kremlin