What did Stalin want to create between the Soviet Union and Western Europe?

A Buffer Zone of Eastern European Communist nations.

Post WWII saw new alliances created. Which grew out of the WWII democratic "Allied Powers"?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What was Truman's policy towards communism?

Containment - to stop the spread of Communism.

How was the Berlin Blockade dealt with and what was the end result?

US and GB sent supplies until the USSR gave up.

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1
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
2
What did Stalin want to create between the Soviet Union and Western Europe?
A Buffer Zone of Eastern European Communist nations.
A trade route
An Iron Curtain
Peace
3
Because we are a global economy, the US supported the rebuilding of Europe with what?
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Containment Policy
The Yalta Conference
4
The Cold War required new agencies to protect the US from Communism, which spies on the enemy?
National Security Council
Central Intelligence Agency
Homeland Security
Department of Defense
5
Post WWII saw new alliances created. Which grew out of the WWII democratic "Allied Powers"?
Warsaw Pact
US/British Alliance
North American Treaty Organization
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
6
What was this Buffer Zone (Eastern European countries) called?
Iron Curtain
Iron Buffer Zone
Steel Dome
Bronze Curtain
7
To gain control of all of East Germany, the USSR set up a blockade around what city?
West Berlin
East Berlin
Berlin
Munich
8
What was Truman's policy towards communism?
Brinkmanship - to go to war to stop Communism.
Iron Curtain - to allow Communism to occupy Eastern Europe.
Buffer Zone - to prevent communism from dominating the world
Containment - to stop the spread of Communism.
9
What US policy promised economic and military support to countries threatened by communism?
Truman Doctrine
Truman Promise
Containment
Iron Curtain
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How was the Berlin Blockade dealt with and what was the end result?
West Berlin became communist.
The US bombed the USSR.
US and GB sent supplies until the USSR gave up.
GB threatened to stop trading with the USSR=Blockade removed

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