Question 1

1. The Freedom Train was:

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a. a traveling exhibition of over 100 historical documents.

Question 2

2. After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:

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a. the Soviet Union.

Question 3

3. The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in:

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d. the Middle East, when Soviet troops occupied northern Iran seeking access to oil fields.

Question 4

4. According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the:

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c. United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.

Question 5

5. In his Long Telegram from Moscow, George Kennan:

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a. advised Truman that the Soviets could be dealt with as a normal government.

Question 6

6. The Iron Curtain:

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a. separated the free West from the communist East.

Question 7

7. The Truman Doctrine:

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e. committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.

Question 8

8. What set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?

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d. the Truman Doctrine

Question 9

9. The Marshall Plan:

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b. was a United States-Soviet program to rebuild Europe.

Question 10

10. After World War II ended, Japan:

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d. received economic assistance from the United States.

Question 11

11. Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history:

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c. women's suffrage.

Question 12

12. In 1948, the Soviets began the Berlin Blockade:

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e. in response to the creation of West Germany.

Question 13

13. How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?

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a. Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift.

Question 14

14. Which statement is true about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

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e. All the members pledged mutual defense against any future Soviet attack.

Question 15

15. NATO:

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a. was an alliance between the United States and several Western European countries.

Question 16

16. All of the following are enactments of the policy of containment EXCEPT:

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d. the Korean War

Question 17

17. In 1949, Mao Zedong:

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b. led a successful communist revolution in China.

Question 18

18. NSC-68:

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c. called for a massive increase in U.S. military forces.

Question 19

19. Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?

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b. a permanent military buildup and a global application of containment

Question 20

20. Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?

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b. Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.

Question 21

21. The Korean War:

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d. ended in a stalemate.

Question 22

22. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO):

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a. replaced NATO in Europe.

Question 23

23. Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

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b. Philippines

Question 24

24. The movements for colonial independence:

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c. generally had U.S. support.

Question 25

25. The impact of the Cold War on American culture was:

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a. especially evident in the movies.

Question 26

26. Militant Liberty was the code name for a national security agency that:

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b. encouraged Hollywood to produce anticommunist movies.

Question 27

27. Who led the New York School of painters?

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c. Jackson Pollack

Question 28

28. To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department:

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c. funded an array of artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.

Question 29

29. The McCarran Internal Security Act:

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d. barred totalitarians from entering the United States.

Question 30

30. In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired a committee to draft the:

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d. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 31

31. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

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c. included freedom of speech and religion.

Question 32

32. The principle of human rights&mdash;the idea of basic rights belonging to all persons because they are human&mdash;was introduced into international relations:

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d. in the late eighteenth century during the American and French Revolutions.

Question 33

33. When World War II ended:

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b. demobilization proceeded quickly.

Question 34

34. President Truman's Fair Deal included:

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d. a national health insurance plan.

Question 35

35. All of the following statements are true of the Fair Deal EXCEPT:

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b. Congress passed Truman's Fair Deal to raise the standard of living for Americans.

Question 36

36. Operation Dixie was:

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b. the postwar union campaign in the South.

Question 37

37. The Taft-Hartley Act:

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a. outlawed the closed shop.

Question 38

38. Which piece of American legislation stated that union leaders had to swear an oath that they were not communists?

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c. Taft-Hartley Act

Question 39

39. Jackie Robinson:

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c. broke the color barrier in major league baseball.

Question 40

40. President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:

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d. reparations.

Question 41

41. Which civil rights measure was passed into law during Truman's administration?

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b. desegregation of the armed forces

Question 42

42. The Dixiecrats:

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b. opposed desegregation in the South.

Question 43

43. Who did the States' Rights Party nominate for president in 1948?

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a. Strom Thurmond

Question 44

44. In 1948, the Progressive Party:

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a. advocated expanded social welfare programs.

Question 45

45. The 1948 presidential race:

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b. was the last presidential race to occur before television forever changed campaigning.

Question 46

46. All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:

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e. Cold War military spending weakened the economy.

Question 47

47. What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?

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d. They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.

Question 48

48. The Hollywood Ten:

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b. refused to name names.

Question 49

49. Who did Whittaker Chambers accuse of being a soviet spy during a HUAC hearing?

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c. Alger Hiss

Question 50

50. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

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c. were executed after a questionable trial.

Question 51

51. Joe McCarthy announced that he had a list of 205 communists who worked for the:

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a. State Department.

Question 52

52. The McCarran-Walter Act:

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d. authorized the deportation of communists, even if they were naturalized citizens.

Question 53

53. Operation Wetback:

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a. deported illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods.

Question 54

54. Organized labor emerged as:

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b. a major supporter of the foreign policy of the Cold War.

Question 55

55. The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement:

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c. included government action against black leaders.

Question 56

56. What do the authors of NSC-68 identify as the most contagious idea in history?

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c. freedom

Question 57

57. In Who Is Loyal to America? Henry Steele Commager:

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b. favors the new meaning given to loyalty: conformity.

Question 58

the Cold War

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a bitter state of indirect conflict that existed between the Western Democracies and Eastern Communism.Especially between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.From the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Question 59

the Iron Curtain

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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the democratic and communist division

Question 60

the Yalta Conference

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The allied powers at the end of World War II meet to discuss allied actions in conquered territories

Question 61

containment

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U.S. policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism to nations around the world.

Question 62

Truman Doctrine

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Truman warned Americans about the serious threat to national security posed by the U.S.S.R. and communism.

Question 63

Marshell Plan

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The U.S. would help to rebuild Europe after WWII if those nations would be democratic.

Question 64

NATO

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A military alliance between democratic countries that bordered the North Atlantic and eventually others.

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