Carpenter Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

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1. Military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations in response to NATO:

• United Nations
• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• Marshall Plan

2. The continuing competitive attempt by two or more countries to develop and possess more and more powerful weapons:

• Blockade
• Cold War
• Arms Race
• Globalization

3. International peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.

• United Nations
• Warsaw Pact
• Marshall Plan
• GI Bill

4. Built in the 1960s to make it harder for East Germans to flee west. This was a symbol of Communist oppression:

• Iron Curtain
• Communism
• Arms Race
• Berlin Wall

5. International peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong; founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development:

• United Nations
• Warsaw Pact
• Globalization
• G.I. Bill

6. An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving:

• Containment
• Communism
• Blockade
• G.I. Bill

7. A military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the U.S., and Canada to prevent the spread of Communism:

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Blockade
• Vietnam War