Cold War Oversimplified (part 1 of 2)

During WWII, which of these countries was NOT described as "good chums" with the others?

• UK

• Italy

• USSR

• USA

When President Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb, he was already aware of it.

• True

• False

Rifts in the Allies relationship began when Stalin backed out on his promise to:

• hold free elections in the USSR

• invade Germany

• bring chocolate chip cookies to Yalta

• hold free elections in Eastern Europe

When Stalin created Soviet-controlled "puppet" governments in Eastern Europe, Churchill declared...?

• war on the USSR

• he would resign

• he would have a drink

• that an "iron curtain" had descended across the continent

Which US policy began with 'The Truman Doctrine'?

• Containment

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Detente

Under which plan would the US spend $12-13 billion to help Western Europe recover from WWII?

• The Schlieffen Plan

• The Solomon Plan

• The Marshall Plan

• The Myers Plan

With many East Berliners “escaping” to West Berlin in the late 1940s, what two related events followed?

• The Berlin Blockade / The Berlin Airlift

• The West German Miracle / The Miracle on Ice

• The Berlin Wall / The collapse of the Berlin Wall

• The Hungarian Revolt / The Modernization of Turkey

Which event, occurring in 1949, drastically changed the balance of power in the Cold War?

• The launching of Sputnik

• The Soviet development of nuclear weapons

• The triumph of the Chinese Kuomintang

• The start of the Korean War

Mainland China became a communist nation in 1949.

• True

• False

In Korea, a communist government was established by the USSR north of the 38th parallel and headed by Kim Il-Sung.

• True

• False