Origins of the Cold War Quiz

The origins of the Cold War lay in fundamental disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in

• North Africa

• East Asia

• The Middle East

• Eastern Europe

The responsibility for starting the Cold War rests with the

• United States only

• Soviet Union only

• Soviet Union and China

• United States and the Soviet Union

When the Soviet Union denied the United States, France and Britain access to Berlin in 1948, Truman responded by

• Asking the United Nations to intervene

• Denying the Soviets access to West Germany

• Declaring that an “iron curtain” had descended across central Europe

• Organizing a massive airlift of supplies to Berlin

President Truman’s Marshall Plan called for

• Military aid for Europe

• Substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe

• Economic aid for Japan

• An alliance to contain the Soviet Union

President Truman relieved General MacArthur from command of the United Nations troops in Korea when

• MacArthur continued to lose crucial battles

• MacArthur crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea

• MacArthur began to take issue publicly with presidential policies and argued to use the atomic bomb against China

• MacArthur began to mock Truman for only being a captain in the army

In response to the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union

• Created the Warsaw Pact

• Left the United Nations

• Ended the Berlin Airlift

• Launched Sputnik

Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) charged numerous Hollywood figures with

• Promoting anti-Semitism

• Avoiding the issue of racism

• Spying for the Soviet Union

• Being sympathetic to Communist ideas

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

• Korea was unified under a Communist government

• North Korea surrendered after the threat of atomic warfare

• Korea remained divided at almost the exactly the same place as before the war

• China controlled North Korea while South Korea remained independent

As a result of the Korean War, the United States succeeded in

• Keeping South Korea free of communism

• Unifying Korean under a democratic government

• Ending communism in Southeast Asia

• Pushing Chinese troops out of North Korea

What was one goal of the Marshall Plan?

• To help the United States buy its way into European affairs

• To create stable democracies that could resist Communism

• To develop strong trading partners in Asia

• To force the Soviet Union to allow more immigration