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Restructuring the Postwar World - Cold War: Superpowers Face Off

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of the meeting between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union over the dividing of Germany into zones?

a)

The Versailles Meetings

b)

The Yalta Conference

c)

The Munich Conference

d)

The General Assembly

2.

What was the international organization that was supposed to protect members against aggression?

a)

The League of Nations

b)

Enigma

c)

NATO

d)

The United Nations

3.

Why did the Soviets want to build a buffer for themselves?

a)

They wanted to protect against a Western invasion

b)

They wanted to build a large, physical barrier

c)

They wanted to gain resources from newly acquired land

d)

They were fearful of other communist governments

4.

What did Truman find the Soviets in violation of after they installed communist governments in places such as Poland?

a)

The Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Atlantic Charter

c)

The Warsaw Pact

d)

NATO

5.

What was the division between democracy in Western Europe and communism in Eastern Europe called?

a)

the Great Barrier Reef

b)

the Athenian Wall

c)

the iron curtain

d)

the Great Wall

6.

What was the ultimate goal of the policy of containment?

a)

blocking the spread of Soviet influence

b)

the defeat of Germany

c)

stopping the spread of communism

d)

defeating fascism

7.

What did opponents of the Truman Doctrine argue?

a)

the allies of America were not doing their part

b)

that Truman wasn't doing enough

c)

Truman should drop more A-bombs

d)

America shouldn't interfere in other nations affairs

8.

What was to provide food, machinery, and materials to rebuild Europe?

a)

the Atlantic Charter

b)

The Berlin Airlift

c)

the Marshall Plan

d)

the Great Escape

9.

What event saw British and American planes flying food and supplies into West Berlin to give relief and aid?

a)

the Great Compromise

b)

the Great Escape

c)

the Berlin Airlift

d)

the Atlantic Charter

10.

Who was the spy that had his U-2 plane shot down, resulting in his capture by the Soviets?

a)

Francis Gary Powers

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Julian Assange

d)

Kota Ibushi

11.

What was the organization that had countries join the U.S. in saying that an attack on one was an attack on all?

a)

the Warsaw Pact

b)

NATO

c)

the United Nations

d)

the League of Nations

12.

What was the Soviet response to the organizational alliance by the U.S. and others?

a)

a direct attack on the U.S.

b)

surrender

c)

NATO

d)

the Warsaw Pact

13.

What was the idea of willing to go to the brink of war by John Dulles called?

a)

gamesmanship

b)

battleship

c)

brinkmanship

d)

total war

14.

What was the name of the Soviet satellite that was launched into space

a)

Moscow

b)

Comrade

c)

Sputnik

d)

Endeavor