Cold War Review

What name did Winston Churchill create for the political division represented by the black line in this image?

• The Berlin Wall

• The Soviet Curtain

• The Iron Curtain

• The Soviet Bloc

What was the main reason the Soviet Union wanted a buffer zone in Eastern Europe?

• The Soviet Union was attempting to drain European nation's resources.

• The Soviet Union wanted to create an international organization that could rival the United Nations.

• The Soviet Union was attempting to unify eastern Europe under their religion.

• The Soviet Union wanted to prevent future invasions after suffering mass casualties during WWII.

"...Asia, after all, has already lost some 450 million of its peoples to the Communist dictatorship, and we simply can’t afford greater losses. But when we come to the possible sequence of events, the loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following, now you begin to talk about areas that not only multiply the disadvantages that you would suffer through loss of materials, sources of materials, but now you are talking really about millions and millions and millions of people."

This quote from President Eisenhower best represents what popular Cold War theory?

• Marshall Plan

• Isolationism

• Domino Theory

• Doomsday Theory

What was the name given to George F. Kennan's strategy to prevent the spread of communism into other nations?

• The Berlin Blockade

• Détente

• Containment

• Total War

Which of the following was not a source of competition for the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• Nuclear Weapons

• Colonization of Africa for raw materials

• The Space Race

• The spread of communism/ capitalism

What was the name of the US Secretary of State's proposal that granted $13 billion to European nations for reconstruction and economic recovery?

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO

What was the name of the 1949 military alliance between the US, Canada, Iceland, and many western European nations?

• The Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• United Nations

• League of Nations

Which event from the Cold War best exemplifies the public's concern that is being presented in this political cartoon?

• Construction of the Berlin Wall

• Creation of the United Nations

• Launch of Sputnik

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The intervention of what country led to the withdrawal of South Korean forces from the north and an eventual stalemate of the Korean War?

• The United States of America

• China

• The Soviet Union

• The United Kingdom

What was the location of the U.S. approved invasion of Cuba that failed and created doubts about the Kennedy administration's capabilities during the Cold War?

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Inchon Landing

• Guantanamo Bay

• Bay of Pigs