Chpt 26: The Cold War

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What goal was most important in shaping the United States foreign policy between 1945-1990?

• preventing the spread of communism to new areas and weakening it where it already exists
• encouraging trained scientists and other skilled workers who lived in foreign countries to immigrate to the U.S.
• providing foreign aid to all poor countries to help them develop economically and technologically

What was the cause of the Cold War?

• The weapons race that began between the US and China
• Competition over new markets to sell products in war-torn Germany
• The spread of communism throughout Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union

During the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union were hesitant to become involved in direct military conflict mainly because of

• the threat of China to both nations
• pressure from non-aligned nations
• the potential for global nuclear destruction

The political climate of the Cold War caused the world's superpowers to

• colonize Africa and Asia
• compete economically and militarily
• cooperate in halting the spread of communism

*Berlin airlift--*Korean War--*Nuclear arms race were part of an era known as the

• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Cold War

The program of American economic assistance to Western Europe-rebuilt after destruction from WWII

• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• NATO

Countries subject to Soviet domination, on western borders of the Soviet Union

• NATO
• Blacklist
• Satellite Nations

Trying to keep Communism where it was and not allowing it to spread anywhere else in the world

• Containment
• Blacklist
• Collect Security

Which two countries became rival enemy superpowers to the United States during the 1950's

• Korea and Japan
• France and Germany
• China and the Soviet Union