Question 1

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so, at what point in the early post-World War II years did the Cold War become inevitable? What steps, if any, the United States and/or the Soviet Union could have taken to avoid the outbreak of the Cold War?

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Question 2

The dramatically reduced number of American farms and farmers in the postwar era was accompanied by

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A)   growing poverty in rural America.
B)   increasing shortages of American-grown food and fiber.
C)   radical protests by farmers and farm laborers.
D)   a romantic "back to the land" movement among city dwellers.
E)   spectacular gains in American agricultural productivity and food growing.

Question 3

Which of the following were NOT among the key decisions made by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Yalta Conference?

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A)   The Soviet Union would attack Japan within three months in exchange for territorial concessions..
B)   The Soviet Union would sponsor free elections in Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania..
C)   The Soviet Union would sponsor free elections in Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania.
D)   The Soviets and Americans would militarily withdraw from Europe after a peace treaty was signed.
E)   A new international peacekeeping organization, the United Nations, would be set up..

Question 4

Senator Joseph McCarthy first rose to national prominence by

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A)   revealing that communist spies were passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
B)   charging that there was extensive communist influence in Hollywood and the media.
C)   asserting that General George Marshall was part of a vast communist conspiracy within the U.S. Army.
D)   mobilizing Republicans to demand a stronger anticommunist foreign policy in East Asia.
E)   charging that dozens of known communists were working within the U.S. State Department.

Question 5

At the wartime Yalta conference, the Big Three allies

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A)   agreed that the Soviet Union would not receive any territorial concessions in the Far East.
B)   drafted a comprehensive peace settlement for the postwar world.
C)   agreed to establish a postwar international peacekeeping organization.
D)   agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of the surrender of Germany.
E)   agreed to the division of Germany.

Question 6

The post-World War II prosperity in the United States was most beneficial to

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A)   African Americans.
B)   labor unions.
C)   women.
D)   nonunion workers.
E)   farmers.

Question 7

How do you assess Harry S Truman as a political leader? What were his greatest successes in foreign and domestic policy? What were his greatest failures?

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Question 8

The prosperity of the postwar decades paved the way for all of the following social transformations EXCEPT

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A)   the civil rights movement.
B)   new welfare programs like Medicare.
C)   America's international leadership.
D)   the migration of people to the North.
E)   increased opportunity to move up economically.

Question 9

When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by

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A)   asking the United Nations to intervene.
B)   denying the Soviets access to West Germany.
C)   declaring that an iron curtain had descended across Central Europe.
D)   organizing a gigantic airlift of supplies to Berlin.
E)   sending an armed convoy to Berlin.

Question 10

One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was

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A)   the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace.
B)   the growing split between urban and rural America.
C)   the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society.
D)   a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class.
E)   the growth of blue-collar employment.

Question 11

The crucial origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in

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A)   North Africa.
B)   East Asia.
C)   the Middle East.
D)   the Third World.
E)   Eastern Europe.

Question 12

American membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did all of the following for the country EXCEPT

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A)   strengthen the containment of the Soviet Union.
B)   help reintegrate Germany into the European family.
C)   reduce our defense expenditures, since we would get help from other countries.
D)   reassure Europeans that the United States would not abandon them.
E)   strike a major blow to American isolationists.

Question 13

One of the most significant structural differences between the old League of Nations and the new United Nations was that the U.N.

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A)   did not attempt to include all the independent nations of the world in its membership.
B)   gave a veto in the powerful Security Council to the five Great Powers.
C)   did not try to address the question of colonialism.
D)   developed its own independent military force controlled by the Security Council.
E)   established a powerful independent executive branch in the Secretary General.

Question 14

One sign of the stress that the widespread post-World War II geographic mobility placed on American families was the

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A)   redistribution of income.
B)   popularity of advice books on child-rearing.
C)   increasing reliance on television as a baby sitter.
D)   increased number of long-distance telephone calls.
E)   dramatic rise in divorces.

Question 15

Postwar Japan

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A)   was, like Germany, divided into Allied occupation zones.
B)   was destabilized by a civil war between nationalist and communist elements.
C)   resisted the imposition of American-style democracy.
D)   was governed from the island of Formosa (Taiwan)  until 1949.
E)   had its military leaders tried for war crimes, as had occurred in Germany.

Question 16

Do you think that the Nazi and Japanese leaders should have been tried for war crimes even though their crimes were not clearly defined as such before the war began? Why or why not?

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Question 17

Identify the factors that produced the anti-communist witch hunt, including the outrageous and ruthless actions and government purges connected to Senator Joseph McCarthy, after World War II. List some of its most important short- and long-term consequences for government and nongovernment institutions and Americans who were victims of McCarthyism and the overall postwar anti-communist witch hunt.

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The anti-communist witch hunt and the ac...

Question 18

The huge postwar baby boom reached its peak in the

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A)   late 1940s.
B)   early 1950s.
C)   late 1950s.
D)   mid-1960s.
E)   early 1970s.

Question 19

How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life, community life, and race relations? Were these specific effects on American family life, community life, and race relations healthy or unhealthy for America in the long term? Defend you views with specific examples.

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Question 20

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the GI Bill?

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A)   It included provisions to help veterans gain an education.
B)   Benefits included $16 million in loans for veterans to buy farms, homes or businesses.
C)   The GI Bill nurtured the nation's economic expansion in the postwar era.
D)   Benefits were only available in the first three months after leaving the military.
E)   Millions of veterans took advantage of the GI Bill programs.

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