Question 1

Describe the Marshall Plan and assess its importance in the postwar world.

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The Marshall Plan, officially known as t...

Question 2

When he ran for president in 1952,Dwight Eisenhower refused to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The results of the 1946 midterm elections showed that the American people were still solidly behind the ideals of the New Deal.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In 1945,Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

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A)  Charles de Gaulle.
B)  Winston Churchill.
C)  Franklin Roosevelt.
D)  Mao Zedong.
E)  Harry Truman.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 5

When Joseph McCarthy first leveled charges of communist infiltration in the government,he was a

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A)  member of the State Department.
B)  private citizen.
C)  first-term Republican senator.
D)  member of the Defense Department.
E)  Democratic member of the House.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

President Truman was not willing to risk war with the Soviets by undertaking an American military response to Stalin's 1948 decision to blockade Berlin.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

At Yalta,Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that Germany should be permanently divided.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

How do you account for the rise of Joseph McCarthy? Why were his tactics successful? What did he accomplish?

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The rise of Joseph McCarthy can be accou...

Question 10

In 1949,President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass

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A)  civil rights legislation.
B)  nationalized health care.
C)  federal aid to education.
D)  aid for public housing.
E)  significant tax cuts.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

At Casablanca,Roosevelt and Churchill announced that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The American military response in Korea began with an invasion at Pyongyang.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In 1945,when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations,it

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A)  initially rejected American membership.
B)  quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority.
C)  refused to vote on the charter for nearly a year.
D)  made major changes to its charter.
E)  put the question to a national referendum.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

The Soviets responded to the creation of NATO by forming an alliance with communist governments called the Warsaw Pact.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

States were given permission to pass "right-to-work" laws by the ________ Act of 1947.

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The answer of States were given permission to pass "right-to-work"...

Question 16

To what degree was communism a genuine threat to the interests and security of the United States in the early 1950s? Was the American reaction to this threat reasonable?

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Communism was perceived as a genuine thr...

Question 17

Beginning in 1947,the United States' policy of "containment" was

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A)  the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
B)  first applied in Poland.
C)  an extension of the Atlantic Charter.
D)  both the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years,and an extension of the Atlantic Charter.
E)  None of these answers is correct.F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 18

In 1946,the Republicans used the simple slogan,"________" to capture both houses of Congress.

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The answer of In 1946,the Republicans used the simple slogan,"________"...

Question 19

The 1946 elections

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A)  revealed growing public support for President Harry Truman's domestic agenda.
B)  saw the Democrats retain control of the House,but lose the Senate.
C)  saw Republicans win control of both houses of Congress.
D)  saw President Truman chastise Republican critics with the slogan "Had Enough?"
E)  saw Republicans argue that Truman aimed to roll back the New Deal.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 20

The Soviet Union was invited to participate in the Marshall Plan.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 27: The Cold War

President Truman was not willing to risk war with the Soviets by undertaking an American military response to Stalin's 1948 decision to blockade Berlin.

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The American military response in Korea began with an invasion at Pyongyang.

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At Casablanca,Roosevelt and Churchill announced that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

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The 1946 elections

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At Yalta,Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that Germany should be permanently divided.

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States were given permission to pass "right-to-work" laws by the ________ Act of 1947.

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How do you account for the rise of Joseph McCarthy? Why were his tactics successful? What did he accomplish?

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The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles.

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The Soviet Union was invited to participate in the Marshall Plan.

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