Events
List three Cold War confrontations
Berlin Blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
The imaginary line that divided the Western European
countries from the Eastern European countries after
World War II was known as the
Iron Curtain
The purpose of both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to
prevent the spread of communism
The use of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe after World War II strengthened the forces of
democracy
One similarity between the Korean War and the Vietnam War is that both wars were
fought as a result of differing political
ideologies during the Cold War
The political climate of the Cold War caused the world’s two superpowers to
compete economically and militarily
During most of the Cold War period, which two nations were divided into Communist and non-Communist parts?
Vietnam and Korea
During the Cold War period, India's foreign policy was committed to
nonalignment with the world powers
How did the Korean War end?
In a stalemate
After World War II, the Soviet Union maintained control of many Eastern European nations mainly because these nations were
extensions of Communist power
In the Soviet Union, a negative aspect of the Cold War Era was the
high cost of maintaining the arms race
During the Cold War era (1945 - 1990), the United States and the Soviet Union were reluctant to become involved in direct military conflict mainly because of
the potential for global nuclear destruction
One difference between the war in Korea in the early 1950s and the war in Vietnam in the late 1960s is that
after the wars ended, Korea remained a divided nation, but Vietnam was reunited under a Communist government
Which United States foreign policy was used to
maintain the independence of Greece and Turkey
after World War II
containment
The end of the Cold War is best symbolized by the
destruction of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany
During the Cold War Era, many Asian and African nations followed a policy of nonalignment because they
wished to receive aid from the Soviet Union and the United States
The main reason the United Nations sent troops to Korea in 1950 was to
prevent North Korea from conquering the people of South Korea
The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to
provide for economic recovery in Western Europe
One similarity in the histories of Germany and Vietnam is that both nations
were once divided but have since been reunited
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the democracies in the West competed for influence in the Middle East because of its
strategic location and valuable resources