Cold War

Throughout the Cold War, US foreign policy was based on the belief that they had a responsibility to...

• provide economic aid to the nations of the Warsaw Pact
• support worldwide revolutions
• prevent the spread of Communism
• avoid foreign entanglements

In the period following WWII, the US developed a policy of containment in response to...

• threat of Soviet expansion
• building of the Berlin Wall
• spread of nuclear weapons
• partition of Palestine

Who lead the "witch hunt" for Communist spies in the US government?

• Justice Earl Warren
• President Dwight Eisenhower
• Senator Joseph McCarthy
• Alger Hiss

During the Cold War Era, why were the US and Soviet Union hesitant to become involved in direct military conflict?

• mutual dependence on oil from the Middle East
• pressure from smaller nations
• the threat of China to both nations
• the potential for global nuclear destruction

The successful launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 signaled the beginning of 

• the Cold War with the US
• fears that the Soviets had achieved technological superiority
• Soviet aggression in Afghanistan
• disarmament discussion between the US and Soviet Union

The United States created the Marshall Plan as a program to

• develop an atomic bomb
• deliver weapons to Nationalist China
• provide economic aid to war-damaged Europe
• increase civil defense during the Cold War

The Truman Doctrine and the Berlin Airlift were examples of the US foreign policy of 

• detente
• containment
• colonialism
• nonalignment

The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 is a significant event in the US history because it

• committed the US to a peacetime military alliance
• strengthened US influence in oil-producing nations
• ease tensions with the Soviet Union and its satellites
• created new patterns of international trade

The major reason the US became involved in the Korean War was the

• need to prevent war between China and the Soviet 
• threat of communism spreading throughout Asia
• demand by the US for Korean natural resources
• desire to limit Japanese expansion

The Cuban missile crisis... 

• showed that the US and the Soviet could agree on total disarmament 
• brought the two major world powers very close to war
• led to the US creating missile sites in Cuban territory
• caused the Communist government in Cuba to be overthrown