Question 1

The Iron Curtain

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A)   Was built by the Soviets across the border between East Germany and Poland.
B)   Was the first of many physical barriers built across Eastern Europe to protect the Soviet world.
C)   Was a metaphorical division between the nations supportive of the Soviet Union and those that supported the West.
D)   All of the above.

Question 2

The GI Bill of 1944 provided veterans with

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A)   Transportation back to their hometowns.
B)   Up to three years' college education paid for by the federal government.
C)   Guaranteed employment in their prewar jobs.
D)   Guaranteed employment in the growing defense industry.

Question 3

Under the Rio Pact,

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A)   Truman committed the United States to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
B)   Latin American nations vowed to fight domestic Communism with military force.
C)   Brazil promised to sell all its petroleum exports to the United States.
D)   The United States provided training, weapons, and advisers to Latin American militaries.

Question 4

Joseph McCarthy spearheaded an anti-Communist hysteria that

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A)   Resulted in brutal lynchings comparable to those of the New South.
B)   Brought Americans back to the importance of real politics.
C)   Destroyed the lives of thousands of Americans.
D)   Despite its drawbacks, managed to extinguish Communism in the United States.

Question 5

The National Security Act of 1947 accomplished all of the following except

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A)   Reorganizing the military branches.
B)   Creating the Central Intelligence Agency (CI
A)  .
C)   Requiring annual military service for American men.
D)   Creating the National Security Council.

Question 6

Why were U.S. troops stuck with a "die for a tie" situation in Korea?

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A)   Korean troops were so formidable.
B)   Soviet troops gave everything on the frontlines.
C)   Nuclear weapons were not an option.
D)   The United States had already committed so many troops in Vietnam.

Question 7

Which of the following was a source of the conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ?

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A)   The fact that the State Department recognized the Soviet Union in 1933.
B)   The belief that capitalism and Communism cannot coexist.
C)   Josef Stalin's betrayal of the United States at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
D)   President Roosevelt's mistrust of Josef Stalin at the Japanese surrender in September 1945.

Question 8

How did the U.S. development of the nuclear bomb affect U.S.-Soviet relations?

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A)   Since the two nations were already at war, it made little difference.
B)   The bomb turned a trusted and amicable relationship into a tense situation.
C)   U.S. refusal to heed Soviet warnings not to detonate the bomb caused severe friction.
D)   U.S. secrecy about the development of the bomb further strained U.S.-Soviet relations.

Question 9

________ broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947 when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Question 10

At the conclusion of the war in Korea, the country was divided between North and South Korea at

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A)   The 17th parallel.
B)   The Yalu River.
C)   The Yellow Sea.
D)   The 38th parallel.

Question 11

By the spring of 1946, Truman's administration favored

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A)   A global economy based on free trade.
B)   The construction of military bases around the world to keep aggressors from harming the United States.
C)   The swift reconstruction of postwar Germany and Japan.
D)   All of the above.

Question 12

The one thing most Americans feared above all else following the war was

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A)   Veterans suffering from yet undefined posttraumatic syndrome.
B)   A Communist infiltration of the American population.
C)   The economic slide into a postwar depression.
D)   A Communist takeover of American values.

Question 13

The government report To Secure These Rights called for __________ action to fight lynchings, segregation, and job discrimination.

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Question 14

As a result of the global Cold War

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A)   The United States paid less and less attention to the rest of the world.
B)   The United States neglected Europe in favor of the Soviet Union.
C)   Territories of formerly little strategic interest became vital to security.
D)   Africa enjoyed a new era of prosperity and peace.

Question 15

About the Soviet Union, George Kennan wrote that

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A)   There can be no peaceful coexistence between capitalism and socialism.
B)   President Truman needed to bluff the Soviets into believing the United States would launch a nuclear strike.
C)   Stalin's military was so weak following the war that it did not pose any threat to the United States.
D)   The United States needed to build hydrogen weapons. A

Question 16

The term "reconversion" referred to

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A)   The process that the Republican Party went through following FDR's four terms as president.
B)   The natural shift of American values back to more traditional values.
C)   The attitudinal shift among the nation's Democrats to trim back the federal programs brought on by the New Deal and the war effort.
D)   Restoring the nation's economy and society back to prewar status.

Question 17

Truman's loyalty program resulted in

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A)   Thousands of people losing their jobs with the federal government.
B)   An energized Supreme Court that refused to back down on civil rights and due process rights.
C)   An increasing fear that Communists had infiltrated almost every aspect of American life and employment.
D)   All of the above.

Question 18

Define the mission the CIA received in the National Security Act of 1947.

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The Central Intelligence Agency was charged with gathering and assessing information for the president.

Question 19

Authored by George Kennan, the ____________ reoriented American foreign policy following World War II.

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Containment policy

Question 20

Was the Cold War a way of securing peace? Discuss.

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The Cold War was not a way of securing p...

Exam 24: The Cold War, 1945-1954

The Iron Curtain

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The GI Bill of 1944 provided veterans with

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Under the Rio Pact,

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Joseph McCarthy spearheaded an anti-Communist hysteria that

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The National Security Act of 1947 accomplished all of the following except

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Why were U.S. troops stuck with a "die for a tie" situation in Korea?

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Which of the following was a source of the conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ?

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How did the U.S. development of the nuclear bomb affect U.S.-Soviet relations?

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________ broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947 when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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At the conclusion of the war in Korea, the country was divided between North and South Korea at

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By the spring of 1946, Truman's administration favored

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The one thing most Americans feared above all else following the war was

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The government report To Secure These Rights called for __________ action to fight lynchings, segregation, and job discrimination.

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Truman's loyalty program resulted in

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Define the mission the CIA received in the National Security Act of 1947.

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Authored by George Kennan, the ____________ reoriented American foreign policy following World War II.

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