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Stalin prevents aid from reaching west Berlin. America and British will drop thousands of supplies from planes.
Berlin Airlift
Nato
Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
Plan after WWII to give billions of dollars to Western Europe in an effort to stop the spread of Communism.
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Nato
Iron curtain
Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, mainly to help Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine
Marshal Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
Domino Theory
A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union on who can supple their arsenal with more weapons?
Arms Race
Domino Theory
Massive Retaliation
Cold War
A military and defense alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America. And the first peace time alliance in US History and the most important for the past 60 years.
NATO
WARSAW
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
U.S. Policy to prevent the spread of communism
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
What war did the Cold War follow?
World War 1
World War 2
Spanish-American War
Civil War
A system where the government is run by a dictator with complete control of everything in the country.
democracy
totalitarian
command economy
What was the Red Scare?
The fear of communists
A nationwide hunt for communist in the U.S.
"Communist Scare"
All of the above
When did the Space Race start?
1957
2019
1955
1800
What was the name of the first satellite launched into orbit?
Sputnik I
Apollo 11
Friendship 7
Vostok I
The Truman Doctrine represented a dramatic sea-change in American foreign policy.
TRUE
FALSE
The Berlin Blockade was a naval blockade of the Turkish Straights.
TRUE
FALSE
The policy of containment was designed to “contain” Soviet communism from spreading beyond its post World War II borders.
TRUE
FALSE
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