PLEASE HELP ASAP (7.5) Why were the countries of Eastern Europe important to the Soviet Union?
A. The Eastern European countries provided a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Germany.
B. The Eastern European countries openly opposed capitalism.
C. The Eastern European countries openly opposed democracy.
D. The Eastern European countries openly sought the protection of the totalitarian, communist regime of the Soviet Union.

The U. S. supported France's efforts to restore control in...
A. Japan
B. Great Britain
C. Southeast Asia
D. Germany'

The Truman Doctrine pledged the policy of...
A. appeasement of communism in Europe
B. elimination of communism in Europe
C. containment of communism in Europe
D. neutrality toward communism in Europe

What term did Winston Churchill use to describe the imaginary line that separating Eastern and Western Europe?
A. Steel Wall
B. Iron Curtain
C. Allied-Axis Line
D.38th Parallel

The Truman Doctrine was first applied when the U. S. sent military and financial aid to resist communist-backed rebel forces in...
A. Greece and Turkey
B. Iran and Afghanistan
C. Poland and Romania
D. East Berlin and East Germany

(Select 3) Why did the U. S. offer financial aid to Western European countries?
1. prevent the election of socialist governments
2. expand U. S. imperialism
3. promote economic rebuilding
4. prevent the fall of those countries to communism

How did the U. S. respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?
A. withdrawal from East Berlin
B. neutrality
C. the bombing of East Germany
D. the Berlin Airlift

What was a reason that the Soviets built the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin?
A. to gain control of all of Germany
B. to force the other former-Allied countries to withdraw from Berlin
C. to keep the people of East Berlin from escaping to freedom
D. to starve the people of West Berlin

Which was established in 1949 as a military alliance between the U. S. and 11 other countries aimed at the Soviet Union
A. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
B. The Warsaw Pact
C. The Organization of Western World Nations
D. The United Nations

Which country fell to communism in 1949 under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung?
A. Japan
B. China
C. Korea
D. Vietnam

Select the 3 items that were outcomes of the Korean War.
A. a victory for the containment of communism
B. the cost of tens of thousands of American lives
C. the fall of South Korea to communism
D. the 38th parallel was established as the border between North Korea and South Korea

Which was a military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations?
A. The Eastern Bloc
B. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C. The United Nations
D. The Warsaw Pact

What marked the beginning of the Space Race?
A. the U. S. discovery of a rocket launch site in Cuba
B. the passage of the National Defense Education Act by the U. S. Congress
C. the U. S. landing the first man on the moon
D. the Soviet launching of Sputnik

Select 3 purposes of the National Defense Education Act.
A. counteract the fear that consumerism made Americans less likely to win the arms race
B. fund the development of the hydrogen bomb
C. promote science and math skills
D. counteract the fear that consumerism made Americans less competitive

Select 3 events that prompted the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
1. the fall of China
2. the Vietnam War
3. Hitler's death
4. Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb
5. the Korean War