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Cold War Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define containment. | a policy to stop the spread of communism |
| Which two countries competed against one another in the Cold War? | U.S.A. & U.S.S.R. |
| What was the goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War? | spread communism |
| What was the goal of the United States during the Cold War? | contain communism |
| What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? | to give $13 billion to countries in Western Europe to rebuild after World War II so that these countries would not be tempted by communism |
| What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine? | to prevent the spread of communism by sending money and weapons to defeat communist rebels in Greece and Turkey |
| What type of government did West Germany have? | democratic |
| What type of government did East Germany have? | totalitarian |
| What type of government did the Soviet Union have? | totalitarian |
| What type of government does the United States have? | democratic |
| What type of economic system does the United States have? | capitalism |
| What type of economic system did the Soviet Union have? | communism |
| What was NATO? | the military alliance between the U.S. Canada and 10 western European nations |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in eastern Europe |
| Where was Berlin located? | East Germany |
| What is a cold war? | a war of words competition and threats but that stops short of a military conflict |
| What was decided at the Yalta Conference? | to occupy Germany and divide it into 4 zones |
| Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary? | the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin |
| When did the Cold War begin? | 1945 |
| When did the Cold War end? | 1990 |
| What is a satellite nation? | a nation whose policies revolved around the Soviet Union's influence |
| What did the iron curtain separate? | democratic western Europe from communist eastern Europe |
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