Cold War

1. All of the following are true of NATO EXCEPT

• It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• It is made up mostly of Western European countries
• It is made up mostly of eastern European countries
• The purpose was to prevent the spread of communism

2. The United States’ Cold War policy of the containment of communism is called

• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Truman Doctrine
• The Marshall Plan
• The NATO Plan

3. The United States responded to the Berlin blockade in 1948 by

• boycotting German-made imports
• building the Berlin Wall
• stopping all traffic leaving Berlin
• airlifting food and supplies into Berlin

4. Which action has come to symbolize the end of the cold war?

• Improving United States relations with China
• Achieving a truce in the Korean War
• Establishing the peace corps
• Tearing down the Berlin Wall

5. Which event illustrates the policy of containment?

• Naval blockade of Cuba
• Nuremberg Trials
• Hungarian Revolt
• Launching of Sputnik

6. Where were glasnost and perestroika implemented to create openness in the government and the economy?

• Soviet Union
• China
• Vietnam
• Cuba

7. The stockpile of nuclear weapons during the Cold War to prevent aggression was known as what?

• Containment
• Detente
• Deterrence
• Domino Theory

8. Who led North Vietnam in their successful attempt at making Vietnam communist

• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Chiang Kai Shek
• Gorbachev

9. Who won the Chinese Civil War?

• Mao Zedong
• Chiang Kai Shek
• Ho Chi Minh
• Stalin

10. The USA and USSR did not remain allies after World War II because

• The United States created NATO
• USSR would not join the United Nations
• Stalin attempted to bomb United States
• their ideological differences in economics and politics