WH Cold War Review

Match the following

• The "iron curtain" Winston Churchill referred to divided European countries into?

• United States and the Soviet Union

• The phrase "The Iron Curtain" is associated with what era of history?

• communist and non-communist countries

• What is considered the most noticeable symbol of the "Iron Curtain"?

• Berlin Wall

• The term "Cold War" describes political conflicts between what two countries?

• Cold War

This is a type of government where the government has complete control of the country. 

• Communism
• Socialism
• Democracy
• Government

This is the name of the Organization that was created by Western European Countries, America and Canada to help contain the spread of Communism.

• United Nations
• Alliance
• League of Nations
• NATO

In 1946, Winston Churchill used the term “Iron Curtain "when describing conditions in Europe. What did he mean by this term?

• •European nations needed to build more factories
• •Peace had finally spread throughout the countries of Europe.
• •The militaries of Western Europe were becoming too powerful.
• •There was a division between the communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe. 

This was an ACTUAL wall that separated Berlin. It separated the communist side from the democracy side. Why did they put the wall up?

• Iron Curtain
• Berlin Wall
• Berlin Airlift
• Great Wall of China

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.

The United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.

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 authorized the use of military force against communist forces in Vietnam.

• 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.

What was an immediate result of the Great Leap Forward (1958)?

• independence of Kenya from Great Britain

• the breakup of the Soviet Union

• the relocation of Bosnian refugees

• increased famine in China

What is brinkmanship?

• U.S. foreign policy of threatening to use all out military aggression against enemy

• The purchasing of material goods

• Designing of products to wear out or become outdated so consumers need to buy more

• U.S. foreign policy of blocking spread of communism to other nations by the Soviets