Early Cold War Review Questions
1. What was the Cold War?
2. What were differences in the US’s goals for Post-WW2 than those of the USSR?
3. What were countries in E. Europe under USSR control called?
4. Name some of the countries described in Question #3.
5. What is Containment?
6. What is the Truman Doctrine? How is it a means for practicing Containment?
7. What is the Marshall Plan? How is it a means for practicing Containment?
8. What was the importance of the Iron Curtain Speech? Who gave it?
9. What were 2 causes for the SU to blockade Western Germany?
10. What were the effects of the Berlin Blockade/Airlift?
11. What is NATO? What countries were involved?
12. Who was the leader of Communist China? What effect did the Communist takeover have on
the United States?
13. What were the effects of the Soviet test of the A-Bomb? Give 1 reason why they were able
to build the A-Bomb so quickly.
14. How did the Korean War begin?
15. Who was the head of the US, UN, and South Korean troops?
16. What caused the US to go from winning the war to losing the war?
17. What were three things the head of the US army wanted to do to end the stalemate?
18. What were the effects of the Korean War?
19. What two organizations did the US create to keep Communism out of the US? Were these
organizations just?
20. What were 2 famous espionage cases? How were they similar?
21. What was the real reason for why Joseph McCarthy decided to call out communists in the
US government?
22. What is the best way to describe McCarthy’s tactics in the senate?
23. What were causes for something like McCarthyism to arise?
24. What were some effects of McCarthyism?
25. What causes McCarthy’s Downfall?
26. Who created the Brinkmanship policy?
27. What is Brinkmanship? What were causes of Brinkmanship?
28. What did the US do in order to use Brinkmanship?
29. What were effects of Brinkmanship?
30. What action did the US take when the Iranian economy fell due to a boycott on their oil?
31. What policy did the US use when reacting to Soviet tanks in Hungary that killed thousands
of protesters?
32. Did the US practice Brinkmanship or Containment in their reaction to the Soviet’s test of the
A-Bomb?
33. Why did the USSR storm into Hungary in 1956?
34. Did the US practice Brinkmanship or Containment in their reaction to the USSR threat to
France and Britain after they invaded Egypt?
35. What was the name of the Soviet Union’s first satellite?
36. What effects did the Soviet’s satellite have on America?
37. What was the purpose of U-2 planes? What effect did the U-2 incident have?
What policy did the US use when reacting to Soviet tanks in Hungary that killed thousands of
protesters?