Cold War Test (QUIZS)

U.S. policy providing aid to European nations, specifically Greece and Turkey, to resist communism during the Cold War.

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment Policy

• Berlin Airlift

The Soviet Union's attempt to cut off West Berlin from supplies.

• Berlin Blockade

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

Joseph Stalin

• Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II and Cold War until his death in 1953.

• A famous Russian novelist known for his works in the 19th century.

• The first President of the Russian Federation after the Soviet Union dissolved.

• A prominent figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.

An international peacekeeping organization created after World War II to prevent future world wars.

• NATO

• League of Nations

• United Nations

• World Health Organization

A U.S. policy that promised to protect the Middle East from communism, especially from Soviet influence.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

A military alliance of Western countries, including the U.S., formed to counter Soviet threats during the Cold War.

• NATO

• SEATO

• Warsaw Pact

• CENTO

Soviet leader after Stalin who believed communism could spread peacefully.

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Lenin

Leader of the Chinese Communists who fought against the Nationalists and became leader of China once the Communists won the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xiaoping

• Sun Yat-sen

• Chiang Kai-shek

The competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to explore space.

• Space Race

• Cold War

• Arms Race

• Moon Landing

A list of people accused of having Communist ties, making it hard for them to find work.

• Blacklist

• Watchlist

• Whitelist

• Banned List