Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-iron curtain

Accepted Answer

The term "iron curtain" was popularized

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"containment doctrine"

Accepted Answer

The "containment doctrine" refers to a f

Question 3

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map:
Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945
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-____ China

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places in East Asia...

Question 4

How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life, community life, and race relations? Were these specific effects on American family life, community life, and race relations healthy or unhealthy for America in the long term? Defend you views with specific examples.

Accepted Answer

The rise of suburbs in America had a sig

Question 5

Since 1945, population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the

Accepted Answer

A) Northeast. 
B) Midwest. 
C) Sunbelt. 
D) Frostbelt. 
E) Pacific Northwest. 
A) Northeast. 
B) Midwest. 
C) Sunbelt. 
D) Frostbelt. 
E) Pacific Northwest.

Question 6

The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief

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A) in the limitless capabilities of the American economy and society to support a giant rearmament program to expand the American military. 
B) that we needed help to fight the spread of communism. 
C) that huge sacrifices would be needed by Americans to fight the Cold War. 
D) in the futility of containment. 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) in the limitless capabilities of the American economy and society to support a giant rearmament program to expand the American military. 
B) that we needed help to fight the spread of communism. 
C) that huge sacrifices would be needed by Americans to fight the Cold War. 
D) in the futility of containment. 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Yalta Conference

Accepted Answer

The Yalta Conference was a pivotal meeti

Question 8

Normally, divisions or a split in a major political party spells certain defeat for its presidential candidate. President Harry Truman was able to overcome a three-way Democratic split in 1948, What explains his surprising underdog victory? Would Truman have won against any Republican opponent besides Thomas Dewey?

Accepted Answer

President Harry Truman's surprising unde

Question 9

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map:
Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945
​
  
-____ Mongolia

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places in East Asia...

Question 10

The passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) was partly motivated by

Accepted Answer

A) fear of postwar veterans' protests. 
B) memories of the mistreatment of the veterans' Bonus Army in the 1930s. 
C) fear that the labor markets could not absorb millions of discharged veterans. 
D) a desire to expand the social diversity of American colleges and universities. 
E) the need of American business for a more highly educated workforce. 
A) fear of postwar veterans' protests. 
B) memories of the mistreatment of the veterans' Bonus Army in the 1930s. 
C) fear that the labor markets could not absorb millions of discharged veterans. 
D) a desire to expand the social diversity of American colleges and universities. 
E) the need of American business for a more highly educated workforce.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68)

Accepted Answer

National Security Council Memorandum Num

Question 12

One of the most significant structural differences between the old League of Nations and the new United Nations was that the U.N.

Accepted Answer

A) did not attempt to include all the independent nations of the world in its membership. 
B) gave a veto in the powerful Security Council to the five Great Powers. 
C) did not try to address the question of colonialism. 
D) developed its own independent military force controlled by the Security Council. 
E) established a powerful independent executive branch in the Secretary General. 
A) did not attempt to include all the independent nations of the world in its membership. 
B) gave a veto in the powerful Security Council to the five Great Powers. 
C) did not try to address the question of colonialism. 
D) developed its own independent military force controlled by the Security Council. 
E) established a powerful independent executive branch in the Secretary General.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-UNESCO

Accepted Answer

UNESCO stands for the United Nations Edu

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Harry S Truman

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President o

Question 15

What were the fundamental causes of the spectacular prosperity of the United States in the decades immediately after World War II? To what extent was the economic boom a result of factors internal to the United States, and to what extent was it a result of the devastation of much of Europe and Asia?

Accepted Answer

The spectacular prosperity of the United

Question 16

Before he was elected vice president of the United States in 1944, Harry S Truman had served as all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) a haberdashery store owner. 
B) secretary of the navy. 
C) a World War I artillery officer. 
D) a Missouri judge. 
E) a United States senator. 
A) a haberdashery store owner. 
B) secretary of the navy. 
C) a World War I artillery officer. 
D) a Missouri judge. 
E) a United States senator.

Question 17

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so, at what point in the early post-World War II years did the Cold War become inevitable? What steps, if any, the United States and/or the Soviet Union could have taken to avoid the outbreak of the Cold War?
​

Accepted Answer

The question of whether the Cold War was

Question 18

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map:
Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945
​
  
-____ South Sakhalin Island

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places in East Asia...

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Henry Wallace

Accepted Answer

Henry Agard Wallace (1888–1965) was an A

Question 20

Why was there such strong popular domestic political support initially for Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crusade in the early 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist

Exam 35: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -iron curtain

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"containment doctrine"

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 ​ -____ China

How did the rise of the suburbs affect American family life, community life, and race relations? Were these specific effects on American family life, community life, and race relations healthy or unhealthy for America in the long term? Defend you views with specific examples.

Since 1945, population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the

The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Yalta Conference

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 ​ -____ Mongolia

The passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) was partly motivated by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68)

One of the most significant structural differences between the old League of Nations and the new United Nations was that the U.N.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -UNESCO

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Harry S Truman

Before he was elected vice president of the United States in 1944, Harry S Truman had served as all of the following except

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so, at what point in the early post-World War II years did the Cold War become inevitable? What steps, if any, the United States and/or the Soviet Union could have taken to avoid the outbreak of the Cold War? ​

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 ​ -____ South Sakhalin Island

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Henry Wallace

Why was there such strong popular domestic political support initially for Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crusade in the early 1950s?

New World Beginnings, 33,000 Bce-1769 Ce

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes From the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: the North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

America in World War Ii 1941-1945

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 -____ China

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 -____ Mongolia

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so, at what point in the early post-World War II years did the Cold War become inevitable? What steps, if any, the United States and/or the Soviet Union could have taken to avoid the outbreak of the Cold War?

Locate the following places in East Asia by reference number on the map: Asia, Africa, Australia, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the Early Post-World War II World, c. 1945 -____ South Sakhalin Island