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Question 1
The Truman Doctrine established all of the following except?
Established financial aid to Greece, Turkey, and all of Europe |
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an assumption that the United States was taking on a permanent global responsibility |
the creation o fa set of global military alliances directed against the Soviet Union |
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set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world |
Question 2
Which idea had the largest impact on American foreign policy during the Cold War?
geopolitics and economic interests |
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the idea of freedom world wide |
isolationism and protecting America first |
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ending globalization |
Question 3
Joseph McCarthy
was an embarrassment to his party by 1954 |
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had the full support of the Senate during his anticommunist crusade |
successfully uncovered the communist infiltration of the federal government |
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successfully uncovered the communist infiltration of the U.S. Army |
Question 4
Which of the following was not an improvement on race issues in the United States between 1945 and 1952?
the desegregtation of public schools by the Supreme Court |
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Fair employment practices and anti-discrimination laws in access to jobs an dpublic accommodations in eleven states |
California repealing a law permitting local school districts to provide segregated educaiton for children of Chinese descent |
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the integration of the Brooklyn Dodgers |
Question 5
Which of the following did not happen in 1949?
Germany was reunified |
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NATO was formed |
Soviet Union successfully detonated their first atomic bomb |
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The Berlin blockade ended |
Question 6
The McCarran-Walter Act
authorized the deportation of communists, even if they were naturalized citizens |
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removed immigration quotas based on nationality |
recognized the need for political asylum |
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made immigration law much more flexible |
Question 7
The United States emerged from WWII as the world’s greatest power because of all of the following except?
the highest level of equlity on the planet |
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the most powerful navy and air force on the planet |
the sole possession of the atomic bomb |
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1/2 of all of the world’s manufacturing capabilities |
Question 8
Which of the following did not happen during our “reconstruction” of Japan after WWII?
they rebuilt a large military under American control to help fight communism |
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they wrote a new, democratic constitution and eliminated absentee landlordism |
They allowed women to vote for the first time |
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They rebuild their economy by American economic assistance |
Question 9
How did the Cold War affect colonies?
The United States backed away from pressuring its European allies to move toward granting self-government to colonies for fear of their aligning with the Soviets |
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Colonies were vulnerable to Soviet attacks |
Colonies became powerful because they were able to choose which side to align with which granted them control over the Super Powers |
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The Cold War created an environment where all of the European nations had to give up their colonies to uphold the idea of the “free world” |
Question 10
NATO was
an organization in which member nations pledged mutual defense against any Soviet Attack |
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an organization in which member nations pledged mutual defense against any German Attack |
was an alliance between all European countries to stop the blockade in Germany |
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was a really bad awful German boy band |