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Chapter 27
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The article in Foreign Affairs that called for the policy of containment to be used against the Soviets was
authored by
a. Harry Truman.
b. Dean Acheson.
c. George Kennan.
d. Richard Nixon.
e. Dwight Eisenhower.
2. Which of the following was not included in the National Security Act of 1947?
a. It provided the basis for the Department of Defense.
b. It created the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
c. It created the National Security Council.
d. It created the Air Force.
e. It created the Central Intelligence Agency.
3. The major goal of the Marshall Plan was to
a. crush the Soviet Union.
b. destroy communist subversion in the United States.
c. build a series of military alliances throughout the world.
d. counter communism by offering economic aid to war-torn European countries.
e. overthrow communist governments in Latin America.
4. Each of the following ran for the presidency in 1948 except
a. Harry Truman.
b. Thomas Dewey.
c. Strom Thurmond.
d. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
e. Henry Wallace.
5. The Taft-Hartley Act
a. enacted the highest tariff in U.S. history.
b. negated many union gains from the New Deal years.
c. implemented the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
d. required strict loyalty oaths from all Americans.
e. imposed the first income tax.
6. All of the following were part of the "G.I. Bill" except
a. providing veterans with financial assistance for education.
b. mandating that veterans receive favorable terms for securing loans for home purchases.
c. mandating preferential treatment when veterans applied for public-sector jobs.
d. the promise to veterans of a future financial bonus.
e. it eventually provided medical care in veterans' hospitals.
7. The Long Island suburb of ____, which opened in 1947, consisted of more than 10,000 affordable homes for
middle-income families.
a. the Bronx
b. Morristown
c. Edeltown
d. Yorktown
e. Levittown
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8. The 1949 military and political alliance linking Western European nations with the United States was
a. NATO.
b. CENTO.
c. SEATO.
d. the Warsaw Pact.
e. the Marshall Plan.
9. In 1949, Mao Zedong forced Jiang Jieshi's forces off mainland China to the offshore island of
a. Korea.
b. Hawaii
c. Tahiti.
d. Indonesia.
e. Formosa.
10. The war in Korea began when the
a. South Korean army moved across the thirty-eighth parallel into North Korea.
b. Chinese army moved across the thirty-eighth parallel into South Korea.
c. North Korean army moved across the thirty-eighth parallel into South Korea.
d. United States landed at Inchon.
e. Soviet Union invaded South Korea.
11. In 1951, Harry Truman relieved General ____ of his command in Korea for insubordination.
a. George C. Patton
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. George Marshall
e. Henry Wallace
12. The couple arrested, tried, convicted, and executed (in 1953) for espionage were named
a. Hiss.
b. Chambers.
c. Rosenberg.
d. Ackroyd.
e. Jones.
13. Harry Truman's policy in regard to the Soviet Union was based on his belief that
a. the Russians were honest and could be trusted to negotiate in good faith.
b. the United States should cut off all contact with the U.S.S.R.
c. the United States had to take a firm stand in opposition to Soviet territorial and ideological
expansion.
d. the United States should maintain friendly relations with the U.S.S.R. at all costs.
e. his isolationist stance.
14. The Central Intelligence Agency was
a. created by Franklin Roosevelt during World War II.
b. given a mandate to infiltrate suspicious organizations within the United States.
c. an information-gathering agency with authority to participate in international covert
actions.
d. required to receive congressional approval before it undertook any controversial actions.
e. not an important agency during the Cold War years.
____ 15. Truman responded to the Berlin blockade by
a. closing all land routes into West Berlin.
b. arresting the Soviet ambassador to the United States.
c. airlifting tons of supplies to the city.
d. pulling all Americans out of Berlin.
e. attacking the Soviet Union.
____ 16. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
a. accused Richard Nixon and John Wayne of spying for the Communists.
b. proved that the labor movement was loyal and procapitalist.
c. helped capture and convict some of the most dangerous Soviet spies in the United States.
d. destroyed the careers of hundreds of TV and movie workers.
e. identified those who worked for the Nazi Party in the U.S.
____ 17. The Truman Doctrine was first applied when the President asked Congress to extend aid to the governments
of
a. China and Korea.
b. Greece and Turkey.
c. Texas and Oklahoma.
d. Great Britain and France.
e. the Soviet Union and China.
____ 18. Alger Hiss was charged with
a. espionage.
b. murder.
c. sexual misconduct.
d. perjury.
e. theft.
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 19. The "Truman Doctrine" called for the United States to aid those nations that were resisting internal
"subversion."
____ 20. The U.S. initial involvement in the Korean War was the direct result of Chinese troop movements southward.
____ 21. A major turning point of the Korean War was General MacArthur's stunning amphibious assault at Inchon.
____ 22. U.S. goals in Korea were clear and well explained.
____ 23. During the Cold War the War Department became the Department of Defense.
Completion
Complete each statement.
24. The congressional bill that severely limited a union's right to strike and conduct boycotts was the
____________________.
25. The leader of the Screen Actors Guild who was also a secret informer for the FBI (known as agent T-10) was
____________________.
26. A new economic theory for judging the prosperity of the nation by totaling the monetary value of all the
goods and services produced in a year is called ____________________.
27. The term "containment" first appeared in an article published in ____________________.
28. The ____________________ Plan involved massive aid to Europe to stabilize those countries' economies and
prevent the spread of communism.
29. When the United Nations voted to send troops to Korea, ____________________ was boycotting the United
Nations and thus did not veto the proposal.
30. The 1952 Presidential candidate who promised to go to Korea personally to accellerate peace negotiations
was ____________________.