Question 1

Which of the following became an incentive for reconsidering what it meant to be American?

Accepted Answer

A)  totalitarianism 
B)  segregation 
C)  labor rights 
D)  the economic market 
E)  communism 
A)  totalitarianism 
B)  segregation 
C)  labor rights 
D)  the economic market 
E)  communism

Question 2

What country's inclusion in the "Free World" does the textbook portray as hypocritical?

Accepted Answer

A)  South Africa 
B)  France 
C)  Philippines 
D)  Canada 
E)  India 
A)  South Africa 
B)  France 
C)  Philippines 
D)  Canada 
E)  India

Question 3

How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric?

Accepted Answer

A)  They pointed to the interracial society of the Soviet Union as a warning sign. 
B)  They stressed the fact that African-Americans were twenty times more likely to be communist than whites. 
C)  They pointed out that the United States' only reliable ally against the Soviet Union was the apartheid regime of South Africa. 
D)  They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda. 
E)  They proposed deputizing the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as an anticommunist paramilitary unit. 
A)  They pointed to the interracial society of the Soviet Union as a warning sign. 
B)  They stressed the fact that African-Americans were twenty times more likely to be communist than whites. 
C)  They pointed out that the United States' only reliable ally against the Soviet Union was the apartheid regime of South Africa. 
D)  They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda. 
E)  They proposed deputizing the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as an anticommunist paramilitary unit.

Question 4

What helped Harry Truman win reelection?

Accepted Answer

A)  He toned down his attacks on segregation. 
B)  He revived New Deal rhetoric. 
C)  He talked about easing tensions with the Soviet Union. 
D)  He avoided commitment on controversial issues. 
E)  The Republican candidate faced an embezzlement scandal. 
A)  He toned down his attacks on segregation. 
B)  He revived New Deal rhetoric. 
C)  He talked about easing tensions with the Soviet Union. 
D)  He avoided commitment on controversial issues. 
E)  The Republican candidate faced an embezzlement scandal.

Question 5

In addition to despising racism, what motivated President Truman to push for civil rights?

Accepted Answer

A)  He hoped to gain reparations for African-Americans who had descendants that had been slaves. 
B)  He wanted to increase the number of black voters in the Republican Party. 
C)  It was part of his strategy to win reelection. 
D)  He thought it would silence Joe McCarthy in his attempt to weed out communism. 
E)  He wanted to protect jobs for women. 
A)  He hoped to gain reparations for African-Americans who had descendants that had been slaves. 
B)  He wanted to increase the number of black voters in the Republican Party. 
C)  It was part of his strategy to win reelection. 
D)  He thought it would silence Joe McCarthy in his attempt to weed out communism. 
E)  He wanted to protect jobs for women.

Question 6

What did the Soviet Union claim to provide to all its citizens?

Accepted Answer

A)  democratic rights 
B)  civil liberties 
C)  free health care 
D)  social and economic rights 
E)  the right to vote 
A)  democratic rights 
B)  civil liberties 
C)  free health care 
D)  social and economic rights 
E)  the right to vote

Question 7

Why did the United States back away from pressuring its European allies to grant self-government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

Accepted Answer

A)  American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War. 
B)  Since the United States was expanding its own empire, it was losing the moral high ground against European colonial powers. 
C)  American strategists reasoned that national independence in Asia and Africa was likely to benefit the Soviet Union more than the United States. 
D)  Southern Democrats in Congress did not want to inspire civil rights campaigns at home by supporting national independence in Asia or Africa. 
E)  The United States depended on European nations to wage war against communists in the developing world. 
A)  American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War. 
B)  Since the United States was expanding its own empire, it was losing the moral high ground against European colonial powers. 
C)  American strategists reasoned that national independence in Asia and Africa was likely to benefit the Soviet Union more than the United States. 
D)  Southern Democrats in Congress did not want to inspire civil rights campaigns at home by supporting national independence in Asia or Africa. 
E)  The United States depended on European nations to wage war against communists in the developing world.

Question 8

In his Wheeling, West Virginia, speech of 1950, who did Joseph McCarthy claim had been infiltrated by communists?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hollywood 
B)  the State Department 
C)  Broadway 
D)  unions 
E)  the Department of Defense 
A)  Hollywood 
B)  the State Department 
C)  Broadway 
D)  unions 
E)  the Department of Defense

Question 9

In 1948, the Progressive Party

Accepted Answer

A)  advocated expanded social welfare programs. 
B)  supported segregation. 
C)  supported Truman's civil rights proposals. 
D)  agreed with Truman's Cold War policies. 
E)  did not allow socialists or communists to join. 
A)  advocated expanded social welfare programs. 
B)  supported segregation. 
C)  supported Truman's civil rights proposals. 
D)  agreed with Truman's Cold War policies. 
E)  did not allow socialists or communists to join.

Question 10

The United States won the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement

Accepted Answer

A)  was quite limited at the time. 
B)  was beneficial because the Urban League accepted communists into its ranks. 
C)  included government action against black leaders. 
D)  caused the NAACP to enlist the aid of the Soviets. 
E)  brought wider support for civil rights from southern Democrats who wanted to fight communism. 
A)  was quite limited at the time. 
B)  was beneficial because the Urban League accepted communists into its ranks. 
C)  included government action against black leaders. 
D)  caused the NAACP to enlist the aid of the Soviets. 
E)  brought wider support for civil rights from southern Democrats who wanted to fight communism.

Question 12

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Dixiecrats

Accepted Answer

The Dixiecrats were a short-lived politi

Question 13

Match between columns
                        Premises: Operation Dixie
decolonization
Marshall Plan
Fair Deal
totalitarianism
Hollywood Ten
Taft-Harley Act
Truman Doctrine

Accepted Answer

The Answer of restricted the rights of certain unions and is...

Question 14

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-iron curtain

Accepted Answer

The term "iron curtain" was popularized

Question 15

Referring to immigrants, Oscar Handlin stated: "Allowed to settle in peace, every variety of man has been able to make a place for himself in American life." Briefly explain the ways in which Handlin's language alludes to the gender dimension.

Accepted Answer

Handlin's language alludes to the gender

Question 16

The United States was the first country to approve both covenants of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Fair Deal

Accepted Answer

The Fair Deal was a set of proposals put

Question 18

Who was prevented from seeing the American Freedom Train exhibit in 1947?

Accepted Answer

A)  All blacks in the South were banned. 
B)  People in Memphis and Birmingham were not allowed, because the train's organizers refused to segregate the viewing. 
C)  Chinese people in California cities were not allowed to view the exhibit. 
D)  Blacks in the South were only permitted to view exhibits after 8 p.m. when whites were done touring the train. 
E)  Immigrants who were naturalized citizens were banned from boarding the train. 
A)  All blacks in the South were banned. 
B)  People in Memphis and Birmingham were not allowed, because the train's organizers refused to segregate the viewing. 
C)  Chinese people in California cities were not allowed to view the exhibit. 
D)  Blacks in the South were only permitted to view exhibits after 8 p.m. when whites were done touring the train. 
E)  Immigrants who were naturalized citizens were banned from boarding the train.

Question 19

What was so ironic about Dean Acheson's speech to the Delta Council in 1947?

Accepted Answer

A)  Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in a place that did not know democracy. 
B)  Acheson was urging the gathering of cotton planters to automate production, while the Democrats were pushing for fair wages for black farmworkers. 
C)  Acheson was delivering a speech meant for new African-American Democrats in Mississippi to a gathering of white supremacists. 
D)  The Under Secretary of State was warning the same audience against the Cold War that had already heard Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech a month prior. 
E)  Acheson had delivered the same speech to the council the year before. 
A)  Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in a place that did not know democracy. 
B)  Acheson was urging the gathering of cotton planters to automate production, while the Democrats were pushing for fair wages for black farmworkers. 
C)  Acheson was delivering a speech meant for new African-American Democrats in Mississippi to a gathering of white supremacists. 
D)  The Under Secretary of State was warning the same audience against the Cold War that had already heard Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech a month prior. 
E)  Acheson had delivered the same speech to the council the year before.

Question 20

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the first long-term military alliance between the United States and Latin America.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953

Which of the following became an incentive for reconsidering what it meant to be American?

What country's inclusion in the "Free World" does the textbook portray as hypocritical?

How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric?

What helped Harry Truman win reelection?

In addition to despising racism, what motivated President Truman to push for civil rights?

What did the Soviet Union claim to provide to all its citizens?

Why did the United States back away from pressuring its European allies to grant self-government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

In his Wheeling, West Virginia, speech of 1950, who did Joseph McCarthy claim had been infiltrated by communists?

In 1948, the Progressive Party

The United States won the Korean War.

The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Dixiecrats

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -iron curtain

Referring to immigrants, Oscar Handlin stated: "Allowed to settle in peace, every variety of man has been able to make a place for himself in American life." Briefly explain the ways in which Handlin's language alludes to the gender dimension.

The United States was the first country to approve both covenants of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Fair Deal

Who was prevented from seeing the American Freedom Train exhibit in 1947?

What was so ironic about Dean Acheson's speech to the Delta Council in 1947?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the first long-term military alliance between the United States and Latin America.

A New World

Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750

Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution, 1763-1783

The Revolution Within

Founding a Nation, 1783-1791

Securing the Republic, 1790-1815

The Market Revolution, 1800-1840

Democracy in America, 1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform, 1820-1840

A House Divided, 1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War, 1861-1865

What Is Freedom: Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Americas Gilded Age, 1870-1890

Freedoms Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900

The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

Safe for Democracy: the United States and World War I, 1916-1920

From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932

The New Deal, 1932-1940

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945

An Affluent Society, 1953-1960

The Sixties, 1960-1968

The Conservative Turn, 1969-1988

From Triumph to Tragedy, 1989-2004

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