Chapter 08 Reading Quiz

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. The fact that each permanent member of the UN security council was given veto power meant

That the security council had little power correct incorrect

That there was little prospect of united action correct incorrect

That the council was forced to united action correct incorrect

That each member state could act alone correct incorrect

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. The World Bank was created to

Maintain stable exchange rates correct incorrect

Manage German reparations payments correct incorrect

Supply capital for European revitalization correct incorrect

Return the world the laissez-faire practices correct incorrect

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. The architect of the mixed approach to economics was

John Maynard Keynes correct incorrect

Milton Friedman correct incorrect

George Marshall correct incorrect

Adam Smith correct incorrect

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. The Soviet Union’s command economy meant that

There were no restrictions on economic activity correct incorrect

Their economy existed on a barter system correct incorrect

The market was firmly under the control of the state correct incorrect

They dominated the global economy correct incorrect

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. Rather than fighting a direct war, the US and USSR each consolidated control in its respective domain in a process called

Containment correct incorrect

Consolidation correct incorrect

Proxy war correct incorrect

Economic hegemony correct incorrect

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. Before WWII Korea was a colony of

Japan correct incorrect

The USSR correct incorrect

China correct incorrect

The United States correct incorrect

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. No one did more to promote American fears of Communism and the ‘red scare’ than

George Marshall correct incorrect

Harry Truman correct incorrect

J. Edgar Hoover correct incorrect

George Kennan correct incorrect

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. The first colony to win independence post-WWII was

South Africa correct incorrect

India correct incorrect

Egypt correct incorrect

Vietnam correct incorrect

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. Black Americans tried to internationalize America’s race problem in the 1940s by

Calling on help from powerful African nations correct incorrect

Declaring themselves an independent nation correct incorrect

Forming an alternate United Nations correct incorrect

Appealing to the UN to investigate American racism correct incorrect

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. One of the key features of postwar prosperity in the US was

A balance between labor and capital correct incorrect

Little economic regulation correct incorrect

The move to a socialist economy correct incorrect

The lack of military spending correct incorrect