Question 1

Even by the end of the 1948 presidential campaign,almost everyone expected Governor Thomas Dewey to win because

Accepted Answer

A)  the Republicans had finally united their northeastern internationalist and midwestern isolationist wings. 
B)  Truman had run a listless and defensive campaign. 
C)  Dewey was such a charming and charismatic candidate. 
D)  President Truman seemed unpopular and the Democrats had split three ways. 
E)  the Republicans had developed a stronger and more progressive domestic platform. 
A)  the Republicans had finally united their northeastern internationalist and midwestern isolationist wings. 
B)  Truman had run a listless and defensive campaign. 
C)  Dewey was such a charming and charismatic candidate. 
D)  President Truman seemed unpopular and the Democrats had split three ways. 
E)  the Republicans had developed a stronger and more progressive domestic platform.

Question 2

The fundamental idea of the containment doctrine,embraced by President Truman,was

Accepted Answer

A)  the Soviet Union should be gradually forced to give up its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. 
B)  the Soviet Union should be prevented from trading with nations in Africa and Asia. 
C)  the West and the Soviet Union should seek to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. 
D)  Soviet expansion should be blocked by firm but not aggressive military and diplomatic strength. 
E)  military competition between the West and the Soviets should be replaced by economic competition. 
A)  the Soviet Union should be gradually forced to give up its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. 
B)  the Soviet Union should be prevented from trading with nations in Africa and Asia. 
C)  the West and the Soviet Union should seek to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. 
D)  Soviet expansion should be blocked by firm but not aggressive military and diplomatic strength. 
E)  military competition between the West and the Soviets should be replaced by economic competition.

Question 3

Explain the rationale for the postwar policy of containment.Show how it was applied in the Truman Doctrine,the Marshall Plan,and NATO.

Accepted Answer

The rationale for the postwar policy of

Question 4

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
  
-____ Kuril Islands

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places by reference number...

Question 5

Which of the following was not among the early successes of the United Nations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stopping the spread of atomic weapons 
B)  Preventing warfare over Kashmir and Iran 
C)  Creating the new state of Israel 
D)  Guiding former European colonies to independence 
E)  Enhancing global health, food production, and cultural development 
A)  Stopping the spread of atomic weapons 
B)  Preventing warfare over Kashmir and Iran 
C)  Creating the new state of Israel 
D)  Guiding former European colonies to independence 
E)  Enhancing global health, food production, and cultural development

Exam 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952

Even by the end of the 1948 presidential campaign,almost everyone expected Governor Thomas Dewey to win because

The fundamental idea of the containment doctrine,embraced by President Truman,was

Explain the rationale for the postwar policy of containment.Show how it was applied in the Truman Doctrine,the Marshall Plan,and NATO.

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: -____ Kuril Islands

Which of the following was not among the early successes of the United Nations?

New World Beginnings,33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

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 at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

The War to End War,1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

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

The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,1992-2009

The American People Face a New Century

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