The Baby Boom

Question 1

Which of the following events prompted the USSR to form the Warsaw Pact?

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the addition of West Germany to NATO in 1955

Question 2

How did the response to the Berlin blockade affect the relationship between the United States and its allies?

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It improved their relationship because it showed that they could work together successfully to resist the USSR.

Question 3

Under NATO, the United States, Canada, and Western European nations agreed to

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defend each other against attacks by responding with force.

Question 4

Following World War II, the mutual defense organization known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed

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because the USSR had strengthened its armed forces.

Question 5

The postwar conditions in Europe that inspired the formation of the Marshall Plan included

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high unemployment and economic instability.

Question 6

How was the United States’ policy of containment after World War II related to the development of the Marshall Plan?

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The United States believed that the economic aid provided by the Marshall Plan would help contain the spread of communism.

Question 7

The goal of the Marshall Plan was to help countries in Western Europe resist communism through strong

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economies.

Question 8

After World War II, the Marshall Plan helped countries in Western Europe with

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grants and loans.

Question 9

What was one effect that joining the Warsaw Pact had on the nations of Eastern Europe?

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The USSR took even greater control of its satellite countries.

Question 10

What development led the Soviet Union to establish the Warsaw Pact?

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West Germany joined NATO.

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