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Early Cold War through Kennedy
1. Britain’s informing the United States that it could not provide aid to Greece and Turkey
led to Truman’s issuing the Truman Doctrine which stated
a. The United Nations Security Council would decide American Foreign Policy.
b. The U.S. would support any country resisting Communism
c. The U.S. would not back the seizure of the Suez Canal.
d. The U.S. would form a North Atlantic Treaty Organization
e. The U.S. would rebuild the Western European economies.
2. How did nations get a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council?
a. They had to supply the budget for the new organization.
b. They had been the “Big Five” in the fight against the Axis.
c. They had been on the winning side of both World Wars.
d. They had to have been charter members of the League of Nations.
e. Franklin Roosevelt chose the members.
3. What was the purpose of the International Military Tribunal?
a. To set rules for treatment of prisoners of war.
b. To set up new governments in the defeated Axis nations.
c. To try former Nazi and Japanese leaders for war crimes.
d. To set rules of engage for the use of atomic weapons.
e. To try Emperor Hirohito and Adolph Hitler for crimes against humanity.
4. The actions of Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s led many Americans to
a. Suspect that some government officials had communist sympathies.
b. Demand more rights for organized labor.
c. Support U.S. involvement in the United Nations.
d. Organize to protect the rights of African Americans.
e. None of the above.
5. During the Cold War the largest portion of the U.S. government’s budget was spent on
a. highway construction
b. social programs.
c. public education.
d. national defense.
e. the welfare state.
6. Which of the following nations did not participate in the controlling Germany after World
War II?
a. The U.S.
b. The U.S.S.R.
c. Great Britain
d. France
e. Spain
7. When Poland did not hold free elections as promised by Stalin at Yalta, who informed the
Soviets that this was not acceptable?
a. Franklin Roosevelt
b. George Marshall
c. Harry Truman
d. Winston Churchill
e. Clement Attlee
Speaker 1
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the continent.
What is needed is a “long term commitment.
patient but firm containment of Russian
expansive tendencies.”
Our policy is directed “ against hunger, poverty,
desperation and chaos…”
“ If Berlin fell, West Germany would be next, if
we mean to hold Europe against Communism,
then we must not budge”
We must fight a limited war with limited
objectives to contain communism.
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Speaker 4
Speaker 5
Using the speaker boxes above, answer the following questions:
8. Which speaker answered the Soviet Blockade with the Berlin Airlift?
a. Speaker 1
b. Speaker 2
c. Speaker 3
d. Speaker 4
e. Speaker 5
9. Which speaker is describing the Marshall Plan?
a. Speaker 1
b. Speaker 2
c. Speaker 3
d. Speaker 4
e. Speaker 5
10. Which speaker reflects the view of President Truman in his confrontation with Gen.
MacArthur?
a. Speaker 1
b. Speaker 2
c. Speaker 3
d. Speaker 4
e. Speaker 5
11. Which speaker reflects Winston Churchill’s view about the threat of the Soviets in
Europe?
a. Speaker 1
b. Speaker 2
c. Speaker 3
d. Speaker 4
e. Speaker 5
12. Which speaker reflects George Kennan’s message to the State Department in the “Long
Telegram?
a. Speaker 1
b. Speaker 2
c. Speaker 3
d. Speaker 4
e. Speaker 5
13. How did the Truman Doctrine reflect the post-World War II policy of containment?
a.
b.
c.
It confirmed the commitment of the United States to aid nations resisting communism
It called for the disbanding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact
It established a fund to raise money for Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America
d. It provided financial assistance to refugees fleeing war-torn Europe
e. It verbalized the policy of brinkmanship.
14. What threat was President Truman referring to in the excerpt above?
a. Regional wars in South America
b. The spread of communism
c. Civil disobedience in U.S. cities
d. The formation of the United Nations
e. The rise of the military industrial complex
15. The point of view expressed in the cartoon is that
a. The atomic bomb has made the world a safer place
b. The atomic bomb has saved the world from complete
destruction
c. The world has the power to control the use of nuclear
weapons
d. Nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of the world
e. Most Americans support the atomic bomb
16. In the excerpt above, President Eisenhower was responding to Senator Joseph
McCarthy’s public attempts to
a. Promote religious tolerance
b. Limit free speech
c. Increase U.S. literacy rates
d. Restrict conservative political influence
e. None of the above
17. To prevent another economic downturn after World War II, what was created by
Congress?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Serviceman Readjustment Act
Social Security Act
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Taft Hartley Act
e. The Fair Deal
18. What issue split the Democratic Party for the 1948 election?
a. The Taft Hartley Act
b. The Serviceman Readjustment Act
c. The Social Security Act
d. The ending segregation of the military
e. Roosevelt running for a fourth term
19. George C. Marshall is to Harry Truman as _______________________ is to Dwight
Eisenhower.
a. George S. Patton
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Joseph McCarthy
d. John Foster Dulles
e. Julius Rosenberg
20. Who does not belong on this list?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Whitaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
The Hollywood 10
Richard Nixon
21. All of the following factors promoted the growth of suburbs EXCEPT:
a. Low cost government loans.
b. Expanded road and highway construction.
c. Laws forbidding residential segregation by races.
d. Increased automobile production.
e. The baby boom.
22. The mood of the “Beat Generation’ is best reflected in which of the following?
a. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This side of Paradise
c. Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman
d. J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye
e. James Joyce’s Ulysses
23. The decade of the 1950’s was characterized by which of the following:
a. More women than men in the legal and medical professions.
b. A declining birthrate.
c. The acceptance of divorce
d. A steady rise of women employees in the overall work force.
e. A decline in the life expectancy
24. Homeownership in Levittown in 1950’s was simulated by
a. Standardized construction methods.
b. The security of a fenced neighborhood.
c. The vast array of floor plans for houses.
d. The need to pay the cost of the house in full.
e. The multi-racial aspect of the neighborhoods.
25. All of the following were reasons why a consumer culture appeared in the 1950’s
EXCEPT:
a. The creation of credit cards and easy payment plans.
b. An increased ability of advertisers to create demand for new products.
c. The appearance of new and varied products.
d. A considerable drop in the price of consumer goods.
e. “Keeping up with the Jones”.
26. The legal basis for Truman’s order for American air and naval forces to support South
Korea was _______________.
a. An inherent power of the presidency
b. A joint resolution of Congress
c. The United Nations Charter
d. The U.S. Constitution
e. A U.S. treaty with South Korea
27. Who does not belong on this list?
a. Harry Truman
b. Dwight Eisenhower
c. Thomas Dewey
d. Henry Wallace
e. Strom Thurmond
28. The “G.I. Bill of Rights” refers to _______________.
a. An amendment to the Constitution adopted shortly after the end of World War II
b. Rights of veterans affirmed by the Supreme Court in a series of post-war
decisions
c. Legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education, unemployment
compensation, loans for homes, and medical care for veterans of World War II
d. Guarantees for employment of veterans in federal jobs
e. A bonus to be paid to the veterans for service rendered 25 years after the
conclusion of World War II
29. The House Un-American Activities was ________________.
a. Responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose
communist influence in American life
b. The name Joseph McCarthy gave to the House Armed Services Committee
c. Declared by the Supreme Court to be in violation of basic civil liberties and
therefore unconstitutional
d. Shut down by President Truman as being to aggressive
e. A group of Communist who had infiltrated the U.S. government and sold secrets
to the Soviets
30. Truman’s response to the Berlin Blockade was to _________________.
a. Abandon the Western occupied portions of Berlin
b. Give up plans for uniting the three Western zones of Germany
c. Use military force to break the blockade of land routes into Berlin
d. Airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year
e. Attack North Korea in retaliation
31. The main economic policy facing Truman in his first term was ___________.
a. Falling prices
b. A dwindling money supply
c. Tight credit
d. Deflation
e. Inflation
32. President Truman contributed to the Red Scare after World War II by _______________.
a. Censoring books, he determined to be pro-Communist.
b. Ordering investigations into the loyalty of federal employees
c. Claiming that all liberal Democrats were Communist sympathizers
d. Exposing that Roosevelt had sold out the Americans at Yalta
e. Allowing his daughter to sing at a benefit for the Rosenberg defense fund
33. Truman aided the cause of Civil Rights by _______________.
a. Denouncing Southern support in 1948
b. Desegregating the armed forces
c. Integrating the public schools
d. Ordering non-discrimination in all defense contracts
e. Integrating restaurants at all interstate travel locations
34. The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950
because ____________.
a. The USSR opposed the North Korean invasion of the South
b. The United States outvoted the Soviet Union
c. The USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision
was made
d. The General Assembly approved the decision
e. Other Southeast Asian nations pledged their support
35. By 1954, the United States funded ______ per cent of the French operations in Vietnam
a. 50
b. 60
c. 80
d. 90
e. 100
36. The fall of _____________ signaled the end of French control in Vietnam
a. Saigon
b. Hanoi
c. Khe Sahn
d. Dien Bien Phu
e. Hue
37. The Soviet Union’s launching of Sputnik in 1957 immediately led to _____________.
a. An easing of US-USSR tensions
b. Massive federal aid to American education
c. The Suez Crisis
d. The Geneva Summit’s endorsement of Open Skies
e. The U-2 Incident
38. Which of the following is true of the Eisenhower administrations termination policy?
a. It ended the attempts to assimilate Indians into mainstream American society.
b. It placed control of federal benefit programs on Indian reservations in the hand of
Indian leaders.
c. It led to a standoff at Wounded Knee between young Indian activist and the FBI
d. It led to the withdrawal of federal benefits from many Indian tribes
e. It provided educational benefits for Indians.
39. In his farewell address in January 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American
people against _________________.
a. The rise of military pacifism
b. The tendency to hysterical anti-communism
c. The risk of creeping socialism
d. The influence of the military – industrial complex
e. The growth of tax and spend Democrats
40. The largest public works project during Eisenhower’s presidency was ___________.
a. Construction of the interstate highway system
b. The space program
c. The building of Boulder Dam
d. Offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
e. The intra coastal canal from Texas to New York City
41. Eisenhower’s policy in the Middle East included all of the following EXCEPT ________
a. The landing of marines at Beirut
b. The use of the CIA to stage a coup in Iran to set up a pro-American government
c. Support the British and French invasion of the Suez
d. Withdraw US support of the Aswan Dam because of Egypt’s friendship with the
Soviets
42. Containment is to Truman as _____________ is to Eisenhower.
a. Zero option policy
b. Brinkmanship
c. Flexible response policy
d. Limited war
e. Shock and awe
43. Critics of McCarthyism in the 1950’s stressed the idea that _______
a. The government should always be on guard against Communist subversion
b. Fear of subversion can lead to erosion of constitutional liberties
c. Loyalty oaths can prevent espionage
d. Communism is likely to gain influence in times of prosperity
e. There is nothing you can do about Communism if the people want it
44. The Korean War ended with the basic borders at pre war boundaries.
a. True
b. False
45. Duck and covered proved to be the protective from nuclear radiation
a. True
b. False
46. All of the following events took place during the Kennedy administration EXCEPT? :
a. The Bay of Pigs invasion
b. The building of the Berlin Wall
c. A limited test ban treaty signed by the U.S., the USSR, and Great Britain
d. The Cuban Missile Crisis
e. The Gary Powers’ U-2 incident
47. During the Kennedy-Khrushchev era, America and the Soviet Union came close to war
over crises in Cuba and :
a. Vietnam
b. Berlin
c. China
d. The Middle East
e. South Africa
48. The Alliance for Progress, proposed by President Kennedy in 1961, can be most
accurately called an added dimension of
a. The Truman Doctrine
b. The League of Nations
c. The Four Freedoms
d. The Lend-Lease Act
e. The Good Neighbor policy
49. What was JFK’s policy calling for more conventional weapons to be used against Soviet
aggression since nuclear weapons were to be used as a last response?
a. The Nuclear Test Ban
b. Brinkmanship
c. Containment
d. Non-violent passive resistance
e. Flexible response
50. What became the symbol of the separation of the Free World from the Iron Curtain?
a. The DMZ
b. The Berlin Wall
c. The Siegfried Wall
d. Radio Free Europe
e. The 38th parallel