Question

Match the Cold War terms with the correct description.

Question 5 options:

This line of latitude separates communist North Korea and the U.S. backed Republic of Korea.

This is an international organization created following World War II to provide a way to negotiate disputes.

This said that the United States would aid any nation in resisting the growing threat of communism and became a guide for American foreign policy during the Cold War.

This is an international organization created by the U.S. and its allies in 1949 to prevent attacks by the Soviet Union.

This is the belief that if one country fell to communism, other countries around it were likely to fall to communism as well.

This was a symbol of the Cold War that separated the East and the West; communist and non-communist part of a German city.

This was the acronym for political talks between the United States and the USSR regarding nuclear weapons.

This was the delivery of supplies in a German city to circumvent the Soviet Blockade

1.

Berlin Wall
2.

NATO
3.

Domino Theory
4.

38th Parallel
5.

United Nations
6.

Truman Doctrine
7.

SALT
8.

Berlin Airlift

Answer 1

Here are your matches:

1. Berlin Wall

• This was a symbol of the Cold War that separated the East and the West; communist and non-communist part of a German city.

2. NATO

• This is an international organization created by the U.S. and its allies in 1949 to prevent attacks by the Soviet Union.

3. Domino Theory

• This is the belief that if one country fell to communism, other countries around it were likely to fall to communism as well.

4. 38th Parallel

• This line of latitude separates communist North Korea and the U.S. backed Republic of Korea.

5. United Nations

• This is an international organization created following World War II to provide a way to negotiate disputes.

6. Truman Doctrine

• This said that the United States would aid any nation in resisting the growing threat of communism and became a guide for American foreign policy during the Cold War.

7. SALT ( = Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

• This was the acronym for political talks between the United States and the USSR regarding nuclear weapons.

8. Berlin Airlift

• This was the delivery of supplies in a German city to circumvent the Soviet Blockade