1945-1960

Draw your current mood

The “containment policy” refers to:

• An effort to keep Germany from unifying and becoming a future threat to Europe

• An effort to block the Soviets’ attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries

• An effort to stop the Japanese from exploiting their influence over the Southeast Asian countries of China and Korea

• An effort to block the flow of capitalism to nations already involved with communism

NATO was established to:

• Open trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico

• Act as a defensive alliance against the threat of the Soviet Union

• Allow for free trade among those nations who had allied during WWII

• Prevent East and West Germany from unifying following the Second World War

The Truman Doctrine:

• Officially began the arms race by calling for an increase in the production of atomic weapons

• Called for increased US presence in the Middle East, to prevent Soviet influence

• Declared that the US would support free peoples throughout the world from communist takeovers

• Allowed for free elections in all nations conquered by the US in WWII

The Warsaw Pact was an organization meant to defend Eastern Europe from what Western alliance?

• The United Nations

• NATO

• The Allies

• The Tripartite Pact

The Marshall Plan:

• Attempted to end the spread of communism to the Middle East

• Gained support from the UN for US intervention in the Korean War

• Provided aid to all European nations in an effort to rebuild after WWII

• Allowed for the US occupation of Japan following WWII

The Berlin Airlift can be described as:

• The shooting down of a US spy plane over East Germany

• The attempted bombing of West Berlin by the Soviet Union

• An attempt by the Soviet Union to gain atom secrets from the US

• The delivery of supplies by airplane into East Berlin to prevent famine and disease

Mao Zedong won widespread support by:

• Lowering taxes on all citizens to provide relief from hardship

• Redistributing land among the rural peasants of China and promising a better life

• Allying himself with the United States giving his movement credibility

• Denouncing the emperorship of the foreign government and renouncing religion

Korea was divided into two sections by what geographical marker?

• The Yalu River

• The Himalaya mountains

• The Sea of Japan

• 38 degrees North Latitude

What event was influential in beginning the “space race”?

• The first detonation of the atomic bomb by the Soviet Union

• The launch of the Soviet satellite sputnik

• The shooting down of an American spy plane, the U-2

• The use of high altitude aircraft used in the Berlin airlift