Chapter 24 Quiz

. The Cold War stemmed from all of the following except

. At the Yalta conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin agreed to the self-determination of all nations and

. The idea of containment was proposed as the US policy in the Cold War by

. The Truman Doctrine was designed to prevent a Communist takeover in

. Western Europe recovered quickly from World War II due to all of the following except the

. The National Security Act of 1947

. The entry of Chinese Communist forces into the Korean war

. At what boundary was the Korean peninsula divided in 1945?

. The guideline for American policy known as NSC-68 warned about all of the following situations except

. NSC-68

. Reconversion of postwar labor challenged the status of women because

. After the war, African Americans

. All of the following refer to the Hiss-Chambers case except

. The televised hearings in the spring of 1954 conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin sought to prove that Communists had infiltrated

. How did most Americans react to the atomic testing carried out at the Nevada Test Site?

. What were the Hollywood Ten accused of?

. How did American, British, and French forces react to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

. What was the Treaty of Detroit?

. What was the most publicized blow to racial inequality during the Truman years?

. How did Americans react to the Atomic Age?

. In the 1948 election, Harry Truman

. _______ was a 1947 modification of federal labor law. The measure made it easier for employers to hire nonunion workers and to oppose the formation of unions, limited unions' right to organize and engage in political activity, and compelled union leaders to swear that they did not belong to the Communist Party.

. Map shows Cold War in Europe, 1950. NATO countries are Portugal, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, and Turkey. Warsaw Pact Countries are Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. Neutral Countries are Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Africa, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon. Communist country but neutral is Yugoslavia.
Map 24-1: Cold War in Europe, 1950. Which of the following developments does the map illustrate?

. In the last several years, historians have come to believe that the USSR was solely to blame for the antagonisms that began the Cold War.

. Even though the United States and USSR were allies during World War II, their relations during the war were very uneasy.

. American foreign policy analyst George Kennan said that the Cold War would inevitably lead to a clash of weapons between the United States and the then-Soviet Union.

. The Truman Doctrine covered policy issues regarding Truman's Square Deal programs.

. With the aggressive leadership of General MacArthur, the United States ultimately won a military victory over the Communists in South Korea.

. In April 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy failed to provide evidence of treason in the army.

. The cover of the comic book has the title, Is this tomorrow. The flag of the U S burns. A man strangles a woman. One man hits another man. A police holds a man from his back. The text at the bottom reads, America Under Communism.
Is this Tomorrow? The photo illustrates the pervasiveness of the Red Scare in America.

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