Cold War History Quiz

Match the following

• Truman Doctrine

• Monetary aid pledged to assist the free people of Turkey and Greece against Communist regimes

• Iron Curtain

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• NATO

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization, non-Communist military alliance

• Warsaw Pact

• Military alliance for the defense of Communist states in Eastern Europe

• USSR

• A term from a speech by Churchill about an imaginary line that separated capitalist/democratic countries in W. Europe from the Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe

Economic recovery plan for Western Europe

• MAD

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

Mutually Assured Destruction

• MAD

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

Massive government spending by the US and USSR to produce and have the most weapons

• MAD

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

When the USSR cut off all land access to West Berlin, Truman ordered U.S. planes to fly in supplies to the people of W. Berlin (1948-1949)

• MAD

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

Match the following

• Sputnik

• 1957 Soviet satellite

• HUAC

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Red Scare

• 1950-1953

• Korean War

• The theory by John Foster Dulles that the USSR would back down because of American nuclear superiority

• Brinksmanship

• Hysteria in the U.S. over the threat of Communist infiltration

The 38th Parallel was a dividing line between North and South ​ (a)  

• Korea
• Vietnam

Policy allowing more freedom in the Soviet economy

• Perestroika

• SDI

• Glasnot

• Solidarity Movement

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), an anti-missile defense system

• Perestroika

• SDI

• Glasnot

• Solidarity Movement

"openness" policy in the USSR instituted by Gorbachev

• Perestroika

• SDI

• Glasnot

• Solidarity Movement