Unit #5.1: The Cold War Quiz

What was the name of the 1945-1991 conflict between the U.S.A. & the U.S.S.R. for global influence?

• Cold War

• United Nations

• Berlin Blockade

• Cuban Missile Crisis

What meeting between FDR, Churchill, & Stalin attempted to set goals for post-war Europe by carving up Germany & Berlin between the victors?

• Potsdam Conference

• Yalta Conference

• NATO

• United Nations

Name the global organization that was formed in 1945 to maintain world peace.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• CIA

What secret note, sent by George Kennan in 1946 revealed that the Soviets were dangerous and must be contained?

• The Long Telegram

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

Spurred on by fears of Sovietism spreading, this U.S. policy (starting in 1946) suggested that we had to play defense & quarantine communism.

• Containment

• Massive Retaliation

• MAD

• NATO

What famous metaphor did former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill use to describe the divide that had descended across the continent of Europe?

• The Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Blockade

• The Iron Curtain

• The Truman Doctrine

What U.S. president pledged to aid nations who were fighting off communism, "to support free peoples of the world"?

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

This covert, peacetime, information gathering organization was formed in 1947 to keep eyes on the Soviets.

• NSA

• CIA

• FBI

• NATO

Name the U.S. program that gave away billions of dollars to rebuild Europe & fight communist expansion.

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Containment

What event in the German capital was an effort by Stalin to force the capitalist zone into communism?

• The Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Berlin Blockade

• Ich Ein Berliner