U.S. History Cold War

During the Cold War Era, the easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union resulted in...

• The organization of the Warsaw Pact

• A treaty banning nuclear tests

• The invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia

• The Berlin Airlift

What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• Elimination of communism

• Implementation of the "Domino Theory"

• Assistance to British colonies in Africa

• Containment of communism

The Soviet Union responded to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by

• Placing nuclear missiles in Cuba

• Sending advisors to the Organization of American States (OAS)

• Forming the Warsaw Pact

• giving financial aid to Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)

All of the following events contributed to Cold War tensions except the...

• United States airlift of food to the citizens of Berlin

• Massive economic support for Western Europe through the Marshall Plan

• United support of the Greek monarchy in 1947

• Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the isolationist Senate

Why did so many Europeans take to the roads and wander the countryside after World War II

What are the two programs General Douglas MacArthur introduced during the US occupation of Japan?

• Nuremberg Trials

• Demilitarization

• The Truman Doctrine

• Democratization

What is the Truman Doctrine

• Offered combat troops to help countries fighting communism

• Gave economic aid to scientists developing the H-Bomb

• Provided military aid, but not troops, to foreign countries threatened by communism

• looked to expand democracy to areas n the Middle East

The US ended their policies of neutrality in the 1940s when...

• The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

• Germany continued a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

• Italy declared war on the United States

• Germany threatened to align with Mexico

The turning point of the war in Europe occurred in the...

• Invasion of northern France at Normandy

• Battle of the Bulge

• Invasion at Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Iwo Jima

McCarthyism of the 1950s was most similar to

• Japanese internment during World War II

• Suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War

• The immigration quota laws of the 1920s

• Palmer Raids of the World War I Era