Cold War Exam Review Questions

What was the Marshall Plan?

• An initiative to promote tourism in Western Europe.
• A military strategy used by the U.S. during the Cold War.
• The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing economic aid to Western Europe after World War II.
• A plan to establish a new currency in Europe.

An organization created WW2 to help spread democracy across the globe

• Warsaw Pact

• The World Health Organization
• NATO
• The League of Nations

Which best describes the Containment Policy?

• A diplomatic approach to strengthen alliances with communist nations.
• A U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism.
• A military strategy to invade communist countries.
• A policy to promote global trade agreements.

What was McCarthyism?

• A campaign to promote economic growth in the U.S. during the 1940s.
• A political movement advocating for civil rights in the 1960s.
• An initiative to support the arts and culture in America during the 1950s.
• McCarthyism was a campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. during the early 1950s.

How was the US able to get supplies to western Berlin after the blockade by the USSR?

• The US used the Berlin Airlift to supply western Berlin after the blockade by the USSR.
• The US built a tunnel to transport goods.
• The US relied on ground convoys to reach Berlin.
• The US sent naval ships to deliver supplies.

Which best describes the Berlin Airlift?

• A military operation to invade East Berlin.
• A military operation to supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.
• A peace treaty signed between East and West Berlin.
• A humanitarian effort to evacuate civilians from Berlin.

The US plan to provide monetary assistance to European countries to help rebuild after WW2. Also helped ensure that countries rebuilt as democratic nations.

• Marshall Plan
• Bretton Woods Agreement
• Lend-Lease Act
• Dawes Plan

US policy that offered assistance to countries that may need military assistance to keep communist countries from infiltrating.

• Lend-Lease Act
• Marshall Plan
• Containment Policy
• Truman Doctrine

The Iron curtain -

• A famous novel about espionage during the Cold War.
• A type of military strategy used in World War II.
• A physical barrier built to separate two countries.
• A metaphorical division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.

Many of the countries that surrounded the Soviet Union, adopted which type of government after WW2?

• Fascist regime
• Communist government
• Democratic Republic
• Monarchy