Cold War Review

What came before the Berlin Airlift?

• Berlin Wall

• Bay of Pigs

• Space Race

• Berlin Blockade

What is the definition of Proxy War

• A war to gain control of a specific region

• a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.

• A war fought between two of the worlds super powers

• When soldiers have to travel a far distance to fight in a war

What is the Marshall Plan?

• a U.S sponsored program granting $13 billion in foreign aid to European countries that had been devastated by WW2

• A song created by Marshall Mathers

• A USSR sponsored program granting $13 billion in foreign aid to communist countries that had been devastated by WW2

• The plan that was formed at the Yalta Conference in 1945

What came 1st, the Potsdam Conference or the Yalta Conference?

• Potsdamn Conference

• Yalta Conference

What is the Truman Doctrine?

• Trumans policy that provided economic and military support to countries that supported communism

• the theory that communism in one country will cause communism to spreads in neighboring countries

• United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from communism

• a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries

Why was NATO formed?

• to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

• It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

• intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security

• to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The unsuccessful Soviet blockade of this city marked an early victory for the U.S.

• Warsaw

• Vienna

• Yalta

• Berlin

The Cold War turned hot in 1950 when Soviet-backed troops from this country invaded South Korea.

• Japan

• North Korea

• Vietnam

• Cambodia

The stationing of nuclear-armed missiles in this country brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in October 1962.

• Cuba

• South Korea

• Berlin

• West Germany

Which 3 countries invaded the Suez Canal during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis?

• Britain, France, United States

• Egypt, Cuba, USSR

• Britain, France, Israel

• United States, Britain, Cuba