Early Cold War Review Game

Soviet Leader during and after WWII

• Vladimir Lenin

• Nikita Kruschev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

The Marshall Plan...

• provided economic aid to European democracies after WWII

• provided military aid to Greece and Turkey

• sought to build up the US nuclear arsenals

• sought to increase US military presence in Asia

Who gave the "Iron Curtain" speech?

• Joseph Stalin

• President Truman

• President Eisenhower

• Prime Minister Winston Churchill

The US conducted operations known as the Berlin airlift in order to...

• evacuate East Germans from occupied territory

• provide supplies to West Berlin as a result of a blockade

• drop propaganda flyers over East Berlin, encouraging people to leave the Soviet zone

• conduct aerial surveillance of Soviet occupied zones

Reorder the following organizations from the first created to last

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• NATO

• League of Nations

Which US President embraced the policies of "brinkmanship" and "Massive Retaliation" capabilities during the Cold War?

• Truman

• Kennedy

• Nixon

• Eisenhower

During his campaign, Eisenhower promised an end the the Korean War. The nation was permanently divided along the _____ parallel.

• 45th

• 17th

• 38th

• 22nd

At the Geneva Summit in 1955- Eisenhower suggested the program "Atoms of Peace" in order to

• distribute more nuclear bombs to smaller nations to defend themselves

• offer to help nations develop nuclear power and technology

• establish nuclear agreements to reduce the stock piling of weapons

• issue the threat that the use of an atomic bomb would result Mutually Assured Destruction in retaliation

U-2...not just a band but also a US.....

• spy plane

• nuclear testing site

• nuclear submarine

• nuclear warhead

The largest US nuclear bomb test was conducted at the Bikini Atoll islands in 1954. This nuclear bomb used both fission and fusion to create a thermonuclear weapon known as a ____ bomb.

• Atomic

• Helium

• Hydrogen

• Oxygen