Cold War Quiz Day 1

The Berlin airlift was used during the Cold War to

• rescue people fleeing West Germany

• support peacekeeping efforts by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• overcome a blockade created by the Soviet Union

• prevent a communist takeover of Greece and Turkey

In the years immediately following World War II, U.S. foreign policy was primarily focused on

• sending volunteers to developing countries

• containing the spread of communism

• securing peace in the Middle East

• maintaining neutrality in world conflicts

 I do not believe that the American people and the Congress wish to turn a deaf ear to the appeal of the Greek Government… As a result of these tragic conditions, a militant minority, exploiting human want and misery, was able to create political chaos which, until now, has made economic recovery impossible… Meanwhile, the Greek Government is unable to cope with the situation. The Greek Army is small and poorly equipped. It needs supplies and equipment if it is to restore the authority of the Government throughout Greek territory. Greece must have assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy…

— President Harry Truman, Address to Congress, March 12, 1947

Congress responded to the situation described in this passage by

• sending military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey

• supplying troops to a peacekeeping operation

• sending combat troops to the Mediterranean region

• calling for creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What was a primary goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin when they met at the Yalta Conference in 1945?

• protecting the colonial empires of the warring nations

• settling major wartime issues of the Allied powers

• setting up postwar aid for Great Britain

• sharing the development of atomic weapons

The Truman Doctrine was originally designed to ____.

• use the United Nations as a tool to eliminate threats posed by the Soviets

• rebuild Korea by extending economic aid

• stop the use of nuclear weapons

• contain Communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey

Immediately after World War II, the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union became strained because ____.

• each country believed that the other one was a threat to its security

• both nations were competing for supremacy in space exploration

• The U.S. used military force in Korea

• The U.S. blocked the Soviet Union from joining the United Nations

I believe that it must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are

resisting attempted subjugation [control] by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. . . .

—President Harry Truman, speech to Congress (Truman Doctrine), March 12, 1947

The program described in this quotation was part of the foreign policy of

• neutrality

• colonialism

• detente

• containment

The U.S. undertook the action shown in the cartoon primarily to

• keep the Soviet Union from developing atomic weapons

• prevent Adolf Hitler from returning to power in Germany

• stop the spread of communism in Western Europe

• force Soviet satellite countries to break away from Soviet control

Information provided by the graph indicates that the Marshall Plan tried to prevent the spread of communism in Europe by ____.

• encouraging domestic revolutions in Europe.

• making European nations dependent on the United Nations.

• providing military aid to France and Great Britain.

• restoring economic stability throughout Western Europe.

Which event of 1948-49 is illustrated by the cartoon?

• the Berlin Airlift

• the collapse of the Berlin Wall

• the reunification of Germany

• the Allied invasion of Germany