Cold War Unit Assessment

One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to:

• promote reunification of East Germany and West Germany
• keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin
• complete the post–World War II rebuilding of Berlin
• meet the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

One reason Mikhail Gorbachev implemented the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union was to:

• eliminate freedom of speech and press
• destroy the power of the opposition party
• dominate the governments of Eastern Europe
• encourage political discussion and economic reform

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to:

• promote religious freedom
• defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression and communism
• isolate member nations from the rest of the world
• spread communism to each member nation

The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing:

• government housing to refugees
• military assistance to Vietnam
• funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations
• nuclear weapons to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members

One way in which the Korean War and the Vietnam War are similar is that both:

• resulted in unification of two formerly independent nations
• reflected the success of the Western policy of containment
• attempted to remove French imperialists from power
• developed from Cold War tensions

The primary purpose of the United Nations is to:

• control world grain prices
• promote democratic governments
• resolve conflicts between nations peacefully
• unite all nations militarily through alliances

The destruction of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union signify the:

• end of the Cold War
• collapse of the Taliban
• strength of the Warsaw Pact
• power of the European Union

“Korea Divided at 38th Parallel”“Hungarian Revolution Crushed”“Missile Sites Spotted in Cuba” The events in these headlines contributed to the:

• development of peacetime alliances
• collapse of the Soviet Union
• rejection of imperialism by Western nations
• tensions between the superpowers

Phase coined by Winston Churchill referring to the divide between Eastern & Western Europe:

• Berlin Airlift
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• Iron Curtain

Soviet led alliance of Eastern European countries; was meant to be USSR's answer to NATO.

• Marshall Plan
• Iron Curtain
• Warsaw Pact
• Potsdam