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 Eastern and Central Europe by reference number on the map:
​​
 Europe in the Early Post-World War II Period, c. 1945
  
-____ Czechoslovakia

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The answer of Locate the following places in Eastern and...

Question 4

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

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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 communist expansion in regions of the world should be blocked by firm political, economic, military, and diplomatic defense of free peoples and nations by America. 
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 communist expansion in regions of the world should be blocked by firm political, economic, military, and diplomatic defense of free peoples and nations by America. 
E)  military competition between the West and the Soviets should be replaced by economic competition.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

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Jiang Jieshi, also known as Chiang Kai-s

Question 6

The National Security Act of 1947 created the

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A)  Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
B)  Central Intelligence Agency. 
C)  Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
D)  Selective Service System. 
E)  Department of Defense. 
A)  Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
B)  Central Intelligence Agency. 
C)  Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
D)  Selective Service System. 
E)  Department of Defense.

Question 7

One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was

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A)  the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace. 
B)  the growing split between urban and rural America. 
C)  the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society. 
D)  a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class. 
E)  the growth of blue-collar employment. 
A)  the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace. 
B)  the growing split between urban and rural America. 
C)  the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society. 
D)  a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class. 
E)  the growth of blue-collar employment.

Question 8

Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Ze-dong mainly because

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A)  Jiang lost the political support and confidence of the Chinese people due to ineptitude and corruption. 
B)  the United States failed to give Jiang enough aid. 
C)  Mao received much assistance from the Soviet Union. 
D)  communists within the Truman administration undermined Jiang's efforts. 
E)  the communists were closer to traditional Chinese culture. 
A)  Jiang lost the political support and confidence of the Chinese people due to ineptitude and corruption. 
B)  the United States failed to give Jiang enough aid. 
C)  Mao received much assistance from the Soviet Union. 
D)  communists within the Truman administration undermined Jiang's efforts. 
E)  the communists were closer to traditional Chinese culture.

Question 9

To what degree do you think each of the following contributed to the Cold War:
a. President Truman's style,
b. the Soviet Union's security interests, and
c. American expectations for the postwar world?

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The answer of To what degree do you think each...

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​George C. Marshall

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George C. Marshall was a highly influent

Question 11

Were Senator Joseph McCarthy's unsubstantiated and ruinous allegations of communist sympathies and activities against liberals, former and current government officials in the State Department and other government bureaucracies, and even members of the U.S. Army a reflection of his personal character or a manifestation of the larger American fears and anxieties about communism and social change in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Senator Joseph McCarthy's unsubstantiate

Question 12

At the wartime Yalta conference, the Big Three allies

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A)  agreed that the Soviet Union would not receive any territorial concessions in the Far East. 
B)  drafted a comprehensive peace settlement for the postwar world. 
C)  agreed to establish a postwar international peacekeeping organization. 
D)  agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of the surrender of Germany. 
E)  agreed to the division of Germany. 
A)  agreed that the Soviet Union would not receive any territorial concessions in the Far East. 
B)  drafted a comprehensive peace settlement for the postwar world. 
C)  agreed to establish a postwar international peacekeeping organization. 
D)  agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan within three months of the surrender of Germany. 
E)  agreed to the division of Germany.

Question 13

Why were so many Americans anxious about the economic future of the nation at the conclusion of World War II? How would your level of anxiety about the economic future of the nation and your personal economic security vary if you were a woman, a veteran, a union member, and African American? Why did these fears, in many cases but not all, prove groundless?

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Many Americans were anxious about the ec

Question 14

The majority of the new jobs created in the postwar era went to

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A)  men. 
B)  women. 
C)  African Americans. 
D)  Hispanics. 
E)  New immigrants. 
A)  men. 
B)  women. 
C)  African Americans. 
D)  Hispanics. 
E)  New immigrants.

Question 15

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

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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 16

Should the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war in 1949 be judged as a failure of American foreign policy? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

The victory of the Communists in the Chi

Question 17

Compare and contrast America's anticommunist containment policy in Europe and in East Asia. Why was the policy more successful in Europe than in Asia?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Compare and contrast America's anticommunist containment policy...

Question 18

A leading liberal American theologian who urged a vigorous American foreign policy and a return to Christian foundations was

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A)  Paul Tillich. 
B)  Billy Graham. 
C)  Benjamin Spock. 
D)  Reinhold Niebuhr. 
E)  Norman Vincent Peale. 
A)  Paul Tillich. 
B)  Billy Graham. 
C)  Benjamin Spock. 
D)  Reinhold Niebuhr. 
E)  Norman Vincent Peale.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Accepted Answer

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were an Ameri

Question 20

Unlike the failed League of Nations, the new United Nations

Accepted Answer

A)  denied the power of veto to any party in an international dispute. 
B)  established no forum for the smaller nations besides the great powers. 
C)  assumed that there would eventually be conflict among the great powers. 
D)  was unable to achieve approval by the United States Senate. 
E)  was established with a Security Council that assured that none of the Big Five Powers (the United States, the USSR, Britain, France, and China) could have action taken against it without its consent. 
A)  denied the power of veto to any party in an international dispute. 
B)  established no forum for the smaller nations besides the great powers. 
C)  assumed that there would eventually be conflict among the great powers. 
D)  was unable to achieve approval by the United States Senate. 
E)  was established with a Security Council that assured that none of the Big Five Powers (the United States, the USSR, Britain, France, and China) could have action taken against it without its consent.

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 Eastern and Central Europe by reference number on the map: Europe in the Early Post-World War II Period, c. 1945 -____ Czechoslovakia

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

The National Security Act of 1947 created the

One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was

Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Ze-dong mainly because

To what degree do you think each of the following contributed to the Cold War: a. President Truman's style, b. the Soviet Union's security interests, and c. American expectations for the postwar world?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George C. Marshall

At the wartime Yalta conference, the Big Three allies

The majority of the new jobs created in the postwar era went to

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

Should the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war in 1949 be judged as a failure of American foreign policy? Why or why not?

Compare and contrast America's anticommunist containment policy in Europe and in East Asia. Why was the policy more successful in Europe than in Asia?

A leading liberal American theologian who urged a vigorous American foreign policy and a return to Christian foundations was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Unlike the failed League of Nations, the new United Nations

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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Exam 14: 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 Eastern and Central Europe by reference number on the map: ​​ Europe in the Early Post-World War II Period, c. 1945 -____ Czechoslovakia

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

The National Security Act of 1947 created the

One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was

Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Ze-dong mainly because

To what degree do you think each of the following contributed to the Cold War: a. President Truman's style, b. the Soviet Union's security interests, and c. American expectations for the postwar world?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​George C. Marshall

At the wartime Yalta conference, the Big Three allies

The majority of the new jobs created in the postwar era went to

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

Should the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war in 1949 be judged as a failure of American foreign policy? Why or why not?

Compare and contrast America's anticommunist containment policy in Europe and in East Asia. Why was the policy more successful in Europe than in Asia?

A leading liberal American theologian who urged a vigorous American foreign policy and a return to Christian foundations was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Unlike the failed League of Nations, the new United Nations

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 Eastern and Central Europe by reference number on the map: Europe in the Early Post-World War II Period, c. 1945 -____ Czechoslovakia

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George C. Marshall