The Cold War Review

To prevent Communists from staging revolutions within developing countries, Eisenhower used

• brinkmanship

• massive retaliation

• embargoes

• covert operations through the CIA

Truman said the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were essential for

• containment

• world economy recovery

• world peace

• American prosperity

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

• punish Germany for World War II

• prevent Germany from rearming

• keep Communist countries weak

• help Western Europe recover after WWII

When the United States, Great Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany, the Soviet Union responded by

• threatening to declare war

• building the Berlin Wall in East Germany

• blockading West Berlin

• organizing a military alliance

Which of the following contributed to the fear and paranoia during the Red Scare of the 1950s?

• The invention of the hydrogen bomb

• The prevalence of McCarthyism

• The policy of “Brinkmanship”

• The increasing rates of consumerism in the United States

The Korean War resulted in

• An entirely communist Korea

• The USSR developing their first atomic bomb

• The rise of Communist China

• Containment of communism in its existing boundaries

The "Iron Curtain" of which Churchill spoke of symbolically

• threatened Soviet Union power in Europe

• enforced the agreements made at the Tehran Conference

• upheld the virtues of a liberated Europe

• separated the Communists dominated countries of Eastern Europe from the Western democracies

What is containment?

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• Designing of products to wear out or become outdated so consumers need to buy more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

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• Designing of products to wear out or become outdated so consumers need to buy more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

What "politically tense" event began in 1962 when the U.S. discovered that the USSR had placed ICBM missile sites in Cuba?

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Laika disaster

• U-2 incident