The Cold War - Section I

Question 1

How much $$$ did the United States send to Greece and Turkey?

Accepted Answer

$400 million

Question 2

“it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by outside pressure"

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 3

Under Soviet capitalism - The government controlled all property and economic activity

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

How did the United States break the blockade?

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Airlift

Question 5

Under the Soviet Union - The Communist party established a totalitarian government with no opposing parties

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

phrase that stood for the division of Europe

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 7

The Cold War had ended any hope of a return to U.S. isolationism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that the United States provide aid to all European nations that needed it

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 9

The United States wanted to create a new world order where all nations had the right to self determination

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Eastern European defense Alliance

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 11

Western European nations joined with the United States and Canada to form a defense military alliance in 1949

Accepted Answer

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 12

What three Allied nations held control over West Berlin?

Accepted Answer

United States, Great Britain, France

Question 13

Europe was divided into two political regions

Accepted Answer

Democratic Western Europe/ Communist Eastern Europe

Question 14

The United States first tried to contain Soviet Influence in ________ and _________

Accepted Answer

Greece and Turkey

Question 15

The Soviet Union wanted to reunite Germany, believing Europe would be more secure if Germany were productive

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

1945 - the new peacekeeping body after World War II

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 17

What did Stalin do to try and take over West Berlin from the Allies?

Accepted Answer

West Berlin Blockade

Question 18

Eastern European countries dominated by the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Satellite Nations

Question 19

Who was the "Big Three" that met at the Potsdam Conference?

Accepted Answer

Truman, Churchill, Stalin

Question 20

Taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries

Accepted Answer

policy of containment

Question 21

What Conference did Stalin promise FDR that he would allow free elections in the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Yalta Conference

Question 22

The United States and the Soviet Union had very different ambitions for the future after World War II

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Representatives of ____ nations met in San Fransisco to establish the United Nations

Accepted Answer

50

Question 24

Under Communist America - Private citizens controlled almost all economic activity

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Under Capitalistic America - Voting by the people elected a president and a congress from competing political parties

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Stalin kept his promise to allow free elections in the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

False

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