Cold War Common Formative Assessment

the military alliance that developed between the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist countries

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Iron Curtain

the military alliance to which the U.S. and most western European nations belong

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Iron Curtain

policy in which the U.S. would stop the spread of Communism

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Iron Curtain

policy which stated that if one Asian nation fell to Communism, then all other nations would also fall

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Iron Curtain

The metaphorical line dividing Soviet Union and Western powers

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Containment
• Domino Theory
• Iron Curtain

The American capitalist economic system encourages free enterprise and private ownership

• true
• false

Communism as an ideology and economic system emphasizes

• private property
• equal distribution of resources
• individual entrepreneurs (business owners)
• monarchs

Which of the following was a cause of the Cold War

• U.S. delay in opening a second front in World War II
• U.S. development of the atomic bomb
• Disputes over plans for postwar Germany
• all of the above

Why did the war stay "cold" between the Soviet Union and the United States?

• a system of alliances
• they were both part of NATO
• nuclear technology and MAD - mutually assured destruction
• the Berlin peace agreement

Which of the following is an example of a proxy war?

• World War I

• World War II

• Korean War

• Spanish-American War