Cold War

He was the president at the start of the Cold War.

• John F. Kennedy
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Harry Truman
• Donald Trump

At the Yalta Conference, the Allies decided to divide ___ into four parts. The Soviets controlled the eastern part of G (in red). The US, France, and Britain divided the western part.

• Japan
• Italy
• Germany
• Poland

At the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945, Truman expressed deep distrust of the Soviet leader _____.

• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Churchill
• Stalin

After World War 2, _____ created satellite countries ("satellites") in eastern Europe (countries controlled by the USSR).

• Roosevelt
• Mao ZeDong
• Stalin
• Truman

In a speech in 1946, Churchill warned that an "_____ curtain" was being created in Europe between Communist (red) and non-Communist (blue) countries.

• iron
• steel
• platinum
• titanium

The Truman Doctrine was an effort to ____ the Soviet Union. Containment became an important method to fight the Cold War.

• divide up
• encourage
• contain
• defeat

The cold war was cold because the US and the USSR did not want to use ____ in a real (hot) war. Any country using these weapons would itself be destroyed ("Mutually Assured Destruction").

• tanks
• fighter jets
• atomic bombs
• aircraft carriers

As an economic system, Communists believe that ___. The goal of Communism is economic equality.

• the government should own all property
• individuals should own all property
• the poor should own all property
• the Germans should be punished for the war

As a political system, Communists believe that ____ should control the government.

• winners of free elections
• the Communist Party
• the wealthy
• no one

As an economic system, capitalism is a system ___. Other features of of capitalism are private property and laissez-faire.

• in which money is invested with the goal of making more money (profit)
• in which money is invested with the goal of helping people
• that allows people to elect their leaders in free elections