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Check for Understanding: Cold War Causes and Alliances
Objective 4: Alliances
Questions
Directions: Please answer the questions below to help you assess how well you
understand this objective.
1) What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
a. An alliance between Western countries to protect each other in case one of the countries
was attacked.
b. An agreement between West and East Berlin to build the Berlin Wall.
c. The treaty that ended WWII.
d. An alliance between Eastern communist countries to protect each other in case one of the
countries was attacked
2)
a)
b)
c)
d)
One of the effects of the creation of NATO was that
It caused a direct war between the United States and Soviet Union
China was taken over by a communist revolution
The United States tested the first nuclear weapons
The Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact in response
3) Why was NATO created?
a) To prevent another world war
b) To root out Communist spies in the federal government
c) To contain the USSR
d) To unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the USSR
4) The Warsaw Pact was signed
a) To unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the Soviet Union
b) To create an Eastern bloc alliance to counter NATO
c) Between the USSR and Cuba after the American-backed Bay of Pigs invasion
d) To unite pro-American nations in Southeast Asia against Communism
5 ) All of the following were elements of the Cold War, except:
a. bitter tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
b. the build-up of nuclear weapons in case of a world war.
c. cooperation between communist and capitalist countries.
d. regional conflicts in different parts of the world.
Check for Understanding: Cold War Causes and Alliances
Objective 4: Alliances
Questions
Directions: Please answer the questions below to help you assess how well you
understand this objective.
6) The political cartoon above illustrates:
a) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
b) The Nazi invasions of continental Europe during WWII.
c) The countries that were affected by the Soviet sphere of influence after WWII.
d) The liberation of Eastern Europe at the end of WWII.
Check for Understanding: Cold War Causes and Alliances
Objective 4: Alliances
Questions
Directions: Please answer the questions below to help you assess how well you
understand this objective.
ANSWER KEY
3) What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
a. An alliance between Western countries to protect each other in case one of the
countries was attacked.
b. An agreement between West and East Berlin to build the Berlin Wall.
c. The treaty that ended WWII.
d. An alliance between Eastern communist countries to protect each other in case one of the
countries was attacked
4)
e)
f)
g)
h)
One of the effects of the creation of NATO was that
It caused a direct war between the United States and Soviet Union
China was taken over by a communist revolution
The United States tested the first nuclear weapons
The Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact in response
3) Why was NATO created?
a) To prevent another world war
b) To root out Communist spies in the federal government
c) To contain the USSR
d) To unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the USSR
4) The Warsaw Pact was signed
a) To unite the Western powers against possible invasion by the Soviet Union
b) To create an Eastern bloc alliance to counter NATO
c) Between the USSR and Cuba after the American-backed Bay of Pigs invasion
d) To unite pro-American nations in Southeast Asia against Communism
5 ) All of the following were elements of the Cold War, except:
e. bitter tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
f. the build-up of nuclear weapons in case of a world war.
g. cooperation between communist and capitalist countries.
h. regional conflicts in different parts of the world.
Check for Understanding: Cold War Causes and Alliances
Objective 4: Alliances
Questions
Directions: Please answer the questions below to help you assess how well you
understand this objective.
6) The political cartoon above illustrates:
e) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
f) The Nazi invasions of continental Europe during WWII.
g) The countries that were affected by the Soviet sphere of influence after
WWII.
h) The liberation of Eastern Europe at the end of WWII.