VA/US SOL 13

Which country was partitioned at the end of WWII?

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• USA

• Germany

What organization was formed near the end of WWII to try to prevent future wars?

• NATO

• United Nations

• NAFTA

• UNESCO

What country launched the Marshall Plan to help European countries post WWII?

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• Japan

• USA

What "war" began between two superpowers post WWII?

• Vietnam

• War of 1812

• Korean War

• Cold War

What was formed as a defensive alliance among the US & western European countries to prevent Soviet invasion of western Europe?

• United Nations (UN)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Marshall Plan

What nation's collapse ended the Cold War?

• USA

• Germany

• Soviet Union

• Russia

What is the policy that the US used as a reason to be involved in both the Korean & Vietnam Wars?

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

• Containment

• Communism

What was the name of Nixon's policy of withdrawing US troops & replacing them with South Vietnamese forces?

• Containment

• Vietnamization

• Massive retaliation

• Communism

Who led a communist revolution that overtook Cuba in the late 1950s?

• Alger Hiss

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Fidel Castro

What Cold War enemy of the US placed missiles in Cuba instigating the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Fidel Castro

• John F. Kennedy

• Soviet Union

• Russia