Postwar America Test

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an __ has descended across the Continent." Winston Churchill describing the division between Eastern communist countries and Western European democracies after WWII.

President Truman's (and later president's) policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism beyond where it already existed .

To prevent East Germans trying to flee communism by crossing into West Berlin, the East German government built the ___, that became a bitter symbol of the Cold War.

An American and British relief effort to send supplies to West Berliners from 1948 to 1949 after Stalin blockaded all routes into the city.

The American plan that provided more than $12 billion in aid to help European nations rebuild their economies and reduce the threat of communist revolutions after WWII

The United States and the Soviet Union did not clash directly in battle but competed for power and influence for nearly 50 years. This intense rivalry became known as the________

How did relations between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries such as Poland and Czechoslovakia change in the years after World War II?

• The Soviet Union supported Eastern European countries through the Berlin Airlift.
• Eastern European countries accepted Marshall Plan aid despite Soviet objections.
• Most Eastern European countries cooperated to contain the Soviet Union.
• Most Eastern European countries became satellites of the Soviet Union.

Why did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?

• to protect East Berlin from the threat of military attack by West Germany
• to keep East Germans from moving to more prosperous West Germany
• to show that East Germany was not hostile to the United States
• to force the Soviet Union to call off the Berlin Blockade