The Cold War

What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?

• Open Door Policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Policy

• Containment

What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Big Stick Policy

During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?

• Berlin Airlift

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did JFK do when he heard that the Soviet Union was construction a missile site in Cuba.

• JFK gave into the Soviet demands.

• JFK bombed the Soviet Union with an atomic bomb.

• JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba.

• JFK invaded Cuba from Guantanamo Bay.

After WWII what happened to the population of the U.S?

• The population moved westward as a result of the railroad.

• African Americans moved north as part of the Great Migration.

• The population shifted from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.

• The population grew due to the Baby Boom.

What was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that was a struggle between their ideologies of democracy and communism?

• World War III
• The Cold War
• The Marshall Plan
• Russian American War

Which term described how the Soviet Union's effort to control some countries in Eastern Europe by not allowing their people to communicate with others outside of the Soviet Union?

• The Iron Curtain
• Soviet Union Control
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Warsaw Pact

What was the alliance between the United States and nations of Western Europe that opposed the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• The Allies
• The Central Powers

How did the Soviet Union show its disregard for personal freedoms in Europe during 1961?

• By building the Berlin Wall
• They built the Iron Curtain
• Causing the Berlin Airlift
• Threatening to start WWIII

What was the conflict between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Fidel Castro?

• The Berlin Airlift
• The Iron Curtain
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Berlin Wall