Cold War Review

What was the Cold War primarily a conflict between?

• The United States and Germany
• Democracy and Totalitarianism
• The United States and the Soviet Union
• Great Britain and the Soviet Union

What does the term “Cold War” mean?

• A war fought in freezing weather
• A war with direct battles between superpowers
• A war of ideas, threats, and competition without direct fighting
• A short war with minimal casualties

What was Winston Churchill referring to when he mentioned the "Iron Curtain"?

• A Soviet weapons system
• The U.S. missile defense
• The division of Europe between free and communist nations
• A physical wall between the U.S. and Canada

What physically symbolized the division between Western Europe and Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe?

• The Berlin Wall
• The Bamboo Curtain
• The Mason-Dixon Line
• The Panama Canal

What was the Soviet Union’s system of government?

• Democratic
• Communist and totalitarian
• Monarchical
• Theocratic

What is a key characteristic of communism?

• Free market competition
• Government ownership of all property
• Low government involvement in the economy
• Multiple political parties

The U.S. promoted capitalism during the Cold War because it believed:

• It led to total government control
• It helped spread communism
• If communism took over, there would be no global capitalist market
• It was the same as communism

What was the main goal of the U.S. policy of containment?

• To prevent nuclear war
• To avoid war with China
• To stop the spread of communism
• To isolate the Soviet Union

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

• To financially rebuild European economies after WWII
• To form a new military alliance
• To divide Germany into four zones
• To punish communist nations

The Truman Doctrine promised:

• Freedom for all U.S. allies
• U.S. support for countries resisting communism
• An end to all wars
• Open immigration from Europe