Cold War

What did Winston Churchill and others call the countries surrounding the Soviet Union; creating a buffer between the west and Soviet Union?

• The Balkan Empire

• The Iron Curtain

• Sputnik

• The Warsaw pact

What was the Soviet spy agency equivalent to the American CIA?

• ICBM

• NATO

• SALT

• KGB

What was the name of the failed U.S. attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, communist leader of Cuba?

• The Cuban

  Collapse

• The Space Race

• Checkpoint Charlie

• The Bay of Pigs

What conflict between the U.S. and the USSR almost brought the two countries to nuclear war?

• The Korean War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Vietnam War

• The Communist Crisis

The _ Doctrine stated that the United States would confront communism anywhere in the world.

What divided East and West Berlin?

• A river

• A wall

• A mountain range

• A picket fence

Communism is a system in which ...

• people are free 

• private businesses own the factories and natural resources and controls the production of goods

• individuals can vote for representatives in government

• the government owns the factories and natural resources; people are not free

Although the Cold War never involved any actual fighting, it was a state of tension between the U.S. and the _.

Which country was split in two by the Iron Curtain?

• France

• Ukraine

• Germany

• Japan

The United States and its allies had a policy called "containment."  This means that they wanted to stop the spread of _