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One factor that aroused Soviet suspicions of the western allies during world war ll was |
D) the western allies long delay in opening a second front in western europe |
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By 1947, the intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the united states was called |
B) the Cold War |
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What impact did world war ll have on the Soviet Union? |
D) world war ll killed more than twenty million soviet citizens and weakened the country’s economy |
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Joseph stalins primary goal after world war ll was to |
C) ensure friendly governments on its borders in Eastern Europe |
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What allowed the US to emerge from world war ll as the most powerful nation in the world? |
C) it had both a monopoly on atomic weapons and expanded production capacity |
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The first instance of Soviet expansionism after World War II was in |
A) Poland and Bulgaria. |
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Why did Joseph Stalin feel that U.S. foreign policy after World War II was hypocritical? |
B) Americans were demanding democratic elections in Eastern Europe but supporting friendly dictatorships in Latin America. |
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The Allies divided Germany in 1946 because |
A) they could not agree on the country’s future. |
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What did British prime minister Winston Churchill suggest about the Soviet Union in his iron curtain speech of 1946? |
C) Its suppression of the popular will in eastern and central Europe had isolated those regions from the free world. |
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Who was the author of the 1946 rationale for a hard-line U.S. foreign policy of containment? |
D) Career diplomat George F. Kennan |
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The U.S. government’s policy of containment was first implemented when President Truman asked Congress to send military and economic missions and $400 million in aid to |
C) Greece and Turkey |
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European nations used most of the funds provided by the American Marshall Plan of 1948 to |
B) stimulate their economies and buy American products |
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How did President Truman respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and 1949? |
A) He ordered the airlifting of more than two million tons of goods to West Berliners |
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Why did President Truman approve the development of a hydrogen bomb in 1949? |
C) The United States had confirmed that the Soviets had detonated an atomic bomb |
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The purpose of the National Security Act of 1947 was to |
C) place oversight of all branches of the military under the secretary of defense. |
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The National Security Council was established to |
A) advise the president on defense planning |
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The peacetime military alliance created by the United States, Canada, and Western European countries to deter attacks from the Soviet Union was the |
B) North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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The Central Intelligence Agency was established to |
C) gather information relevant to the national defense and to perform any functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security |
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In the post-World War II era, the term third world was used to refer to |
D) those outside the Western and Eastern blocs that had yet to develop industrial economies |
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What occurred with the flight of the Chinese Nationalists from China in 1949? |
D) The People’s Republic of China was established |
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How did the U.S. government respond to the fall of the Nationalist government in China? |
D) The United States refused to grant official recognition to the Communist government and aided the exiled Nationalists |
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The United States ended its official occupation of Japan after World War II |
in 1949, as soon as it was clear China would not become an American economic center in Asia |
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What was President Truman’s initial response to the Israeli declaration of statehood in 1948? |
B) Truman quickly recognized Israel and pledged to make its defense a cornerstone of U.S. policies in the Middle East |
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In the post-World War II economy |
C) women’s earnings saw significant decline |
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The purpose of the Employment Act of 1946 was to |
A) formalize the U.S. government’s responsibility for keeping the economy healthy |
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Which of the following describes the pattern of labor strikes in the United States in 1946? |
B) Labor strikes increased public exasperation with and hostility toward unions |
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Which of the following was among the factors responsible for the postwar economic boom in the United States? |
A) War-torn countries’ spending on American products |
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Which of the following describes Eisenhower’s politics of the middle way in the early 1950s? |
A) Eisenhower pledged to govern by compromise and consensus |
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What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate? |
D) McCarthy conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists |
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What was the Eisenhower administration’s approach to social welfare programs? |
C) It allowed the welfare state to grow and the federal government to take on new projects |
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What was President Eisenhower’s most important and far-reaching domestic initiative? |
B) The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956 |
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President Eisenhower believed the development of nuclear power for domestic purposes should |
A) be left in the hands of private enterprise |
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The three-part program for compensating, terminating, and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration’s commitment to |
D) limiting the scope of federal government activity |
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In the context of President Eisenhower’s policy toward Native Americans, termination meant |
C) ending the federal government’s special relationship with the Indians by transferring jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments |
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One unintended consequence of the federal government’s program to relocate Native Americans was |
A) the emergence of a militant pan-Indian movement two decades later |
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The key to President Eisenhower’s New Look in foreign policy was |
B) a smaller conventional army bolstered by strength in airpower and nuclear weapons |
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles supported a foreign policy strategy of |
B) going to the brink of war to halt the Soviets’ efforts to extend their territory any further |
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When Hungarian freedom fighters mounted a revolt against the Soviet-controlled government of their country in 1956, the Eisenhower administration |
C) did nothing, because Eisenhower was unwilling to risk American soldiers or possible nuclear war |
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President Eisenhower viewed communism in Vietnam as |
C) a force that had to be stopped before it spread to Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines |
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Between 1955 and 1961, the United States spent $800 million in South Vietnam, most of it to |
B) fund the South Vietnamese army |
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In the 1950s, the CIA intervened in the internal affairs of |
C) Iran, Guatemala, and Cuba |
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Why did many Cuban people support the uprising led by Fidel Castro against Fulgencio Batista in 1959? |
B) Many Cuban people had a strong desire for political and economic autonomy |
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The purpose of the Eisenhower Doctrine was to |
A) aid any Middle Eastern nation requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international communism |
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The United States reacted to the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik in 1957 |
B) with a feeling of inferiority about U.S. scientific and technological development |
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What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office? |
C) An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems |
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The output of American farms increased between 1940 and 1960, while the number of farmworkers |
B) decreased by nearly one-third |
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