Early Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

Near the end of WWII, the Allied Powers (FDR, Stalin, and Churchill) met at ________________ to work out how to reorganize Europe.

• Potsdam
• Warsaw Pact
• Yalta
• Berlin Airlift

(2) Later, at the conference at _________________, differences emerged between Truman and Stalin, especially over Germany.

• Yalta
• Potsdam
• Marshall Plan
• Containment

(3) Soviet actions in Eastern Europe resulted in what Winston Churchill described as an ________________ falling over that region as it came under Soviet control.

• Truman Doctrine
• Cold War
• Containment
• Iron Curtain

(4) The ______________________ was the result of the opposing ideologies of the Super Powers (the U.S. and the SOVIET UNION) and their competition for world domination.

• Cold War
• Berlin Airlift
• Marshall Plan
• Warsaw Pact

(5) The United States response to the spread of Communism was the policy of _____________ -- to prevent Communism from spreading further.

• NATO
• Truman Doctrine
• Cold War
• Containment

(6) The first effort to carry out this policy occurred in Greece and Turkey where the __________________ assisted those two countries with economic and military aid.

• Berlin Airlift
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Warsaw Pact

(7) In addition, the ______________________ poured large amounts of money into rebuilding Western Europe’s economy and was a huge success.

• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine

(8) When the enclosed city of Berlin was blockaded by the Soviet Union, Allied forces carried out the _________________________________ to feed and supply the city until the Soviets lifted the blockade.

• Iron Curtain
• Cold War
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment

(9) The U.S., Canada, and 10 Western European countries formed the first military defense alliance, __________________________________, where each country agreed to defend every other member if attacked.

• Warsaw Pact
• Marshall Plan
• Potsdam
• NATO

(10) In response to the western countries forming an alliance, the Soviet Union formed the ____________________________ in 1955.

• Cold War
• Warsaw Pact
• NATO
• Iron Curtain