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7-5 The Cold War Lesson 2 Europe is divided by the Cold War
By Marianne Greco
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Part of a unit on the Cold War. Reading and comprehension questions, with videos embedded.
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Question 3
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What best describes the Truman Doctrine and its purpose?
A. U.S. promised economic, military, and political aid to any country threatened by communism and it was to contain communism from spreading anywhere in the world.
B. Truman wanted the U.S. to return to a policy of isolationism because the U.S. was weary of war.
C. Truman offered to sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union which would spark 40 years of cooperation in the space program.
D. The U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to split control of China which would keep it from totally going communist.
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What happened to Germany after WW2?
A. Germany was left alone and soon fell under control of a new dictator.
B. Germany was divided by France and Poland.
C. Germany was annexed by, or became part of, Poland.
D. Germany was split into an east under Soviet control and a west which became democratic.
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What happened to Berlin, the capital of Germany, after WW2?
A. It was also split in half with a Soviet controlled east and a democratically controlled west.
B. It fell under Soviet Control completely.
C. France controlled the entire city of Berlin after WW2.
D. Berlin was so damaged after WW2 it was abandoned and new capitals of East and West Germany were chosen to replace it.
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Question 7
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What best describes the Marshall Plan and its purpose?
A. The Marshall Plan was an arms treaty signed between the U.S. and the Soviets to de escalate their military build ups.
B. The Marshall Plan brought 15 million dollars into Europe to help stabilize, rebuild, and contain communism from spreading into Western Europe.
C. The Marshall Plan was a strategic plan aimed at stopping communism from spreading to the Americas.
D. The Marshall Plan was a plan to deploy missiles into Turkey and Greece to counter the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba.
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Question 10
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What was the purpose of the Berlin wall that was put up in 1961 that divided the city of Berlin in half?
A. It was built by Western Berlin to protect its citizens from growing Eastern Berlin crime.
B. It was built by Eastern Berlin to keep Western Berlin resident from taking their jobs.
C. It was built by Western Berlin to keep people from East Berlin from spreading communism.
D. It was built by Eastern Berlin to keep its citizens from escaping to a free Western Berlin.
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Countries in Eastern Europe that were controlled by the Soviet Union were called what?
A. Colonies
B. Satellites
C. Soviet Free Democratic States
D. Soviet Mandates
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What was the name for the boundary in Europe that divided democratic from communist European countries called?
A. The Steel Wall
B. Glasnost
C. Berlin Wall
D. Iron Curtain
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The Berlin Airlift was one of the first hot spots from the Cold War?
What best describes the Berlin Airlift?
A. Allied Forces inside of Western Berlin blocked all residents from Eastern Berlin from escaping because they feared communism might spread to western Berlin.
B. When a blockade of Eastern Berlin happened in 1948, Allied Forces, including the U.S., airlifted food and supplies to the residents of Western Berlin non stop for almost 10 months in 1949.
C. Almost 150,000 Germans were evacuated from Berlin in 1949 to freedom in France with a massive airlift organized by the United Nations.
D. All the aircraft inside of Berlin had to be evacuated because the Soviets threatened to blow up the main airport in Berlin.
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Two new alliance groups formed during the Cold War.
8. What was NATO?
A. National Alliance Treaty Organization
B. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C. North American Treaty Organization
D. Nations Allied to Opposition
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What was the name of the Soviet alliance created in response to NATO forming?
A. Warsaw Pact
B. Kremlin Alliance
C. Siberian Pact
D. Pro Socialist Party World Alliance
