Cold War- Wars and Policies

The Cold War refers to the period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from...

• the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union.

• the end of World War I to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• the Cuban Missile Crisis to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of World War I.

How did the Marshall Plan reflect containment policy?

• It blocked Soviet missiles from from arriving in communist Cuba.

• It provided economic aid to European countries in order to prevent the spread of communism.

• It provided economic aid to Turkey and Greece in order to prevent the spread of communism.

• It stopped communist efforts to control the Korean Peninsula.

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.

U.S. intervention in Vietnam came as a result of the Cold War policy of?

• Détente

• Appeasement

• Containment

• Brinkmanship

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 wars were fought during the Cold War as a result of containment and the Domino Theory?

• Korean & Vietnam War

• WWII & Korean War

• 
  Civil War & Spanish American War

• WWII & Vietnam War

What is NATO?

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the U.S. and Canada.

• A military alliance between Western European Countries, the Soviet Union and China.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries, Including the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

• A military alliance between Eastern European Countries.

Which of the following terms refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that began at the end of WWII and lasted until 1991?

• Iron Curtain

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Cold War

Closest the world has come to Nuclear War_______?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• Bay of Pigs

• Space Race

The idea that if a country falls to communism, neighboring countries will do as well.

• Tet Offensive

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine