Cold War Quiz

How does the policy of Containment differ from the policy of Isolationism?

• Containment requires the US to distance and protect itself from any global conflict

• Containment requires the US to remain neutral on conflicts involving European and Asian countries

• Containment requires the US to involve itself in the foreign affairs of European and Asian countries

• Containment requires the US to build partnerships throughout the western hemisphere

How did European countries benefit from the Marshall Plan?

• European countries were able to reclaim territory

• European countries were able to join the United Nations

• European countries were able to build atomic weapons

• European countries were able to rebuild their economy

What idea motivated the Truman Doctrine?

• Iron Curtain

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Appeasement

What was the US’s initial policy toward Soviet expansion?

• containment

• detainment 

• domino theory

• nuclear proliferation

The Soviet equivalent to NATO was...

• the United Nations

• nuclear weapons

• a blockade of Berlin

• the Warsaw Pact

What does the quote below describe?

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation (the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control) by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes."

• United Nations

• Isolationism

• The Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

Which statement best describes most Eastern European countries immediately after World War II? 

 

• They adopted democratic reforms in their political systems

• They became satellite states of the Soviet Union

• They became dependent on aid provided by the Marshall Plan

• They emerged as world economic powers

What idea is the fear of one country after the other falling to communism?

• Marshall Plan

• Democracy

• Monroe Doctrine

• Domino Theory

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had many causes and had several effects on the United States. Identify  two correct causes of the Cold War and two correct effects of the Cold War into the concept map.

• The Soviet Union wants to expand its sphere of influence in Europe and Asia.

• The Soviet Union attempts to stop the formation of the United Nations

• The United States experiences a second red scare as fear of communism grows

• A nuclear arms race occurs between the United States and the Soviet Union.

• Distrust between the United States and the Soviet Union increases after WWII

This diplomat proposed the policy of containment.

• Joseph Stalin

• Harry S. Truman

• George F. Kennan

• George C. Marshall