Question 1

Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Vietnam'

Question 2

Answer the following  questions :
-Cuban missile crisis

Accepted Answer

A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world. 
A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world.

Question 3

Which 1962 event prompted a slight thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Cuban missile crisis 
B)  The construction of the Berlin Wall 
C)  Kennedy's inauguration of the Peace Corps 
D)  A successful democratic revolution in Hungary 
A)  The Cuban missile crisis 
B)  The construction of the Berlin Wall 
C)  Kennedy's inauguration of the Peace Corps 
D)  A successful democratic revolution in Hungary

Question 4

During the late 1940s and early 1950s,the United States and the USSR came closest to war over

Accepted Answer

A)  the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. 
B)  Soviet arm shipments to North Korea during the Korean War. 
C)  Soviet refusal to allow Eastern European countries to participate in the Marshall Plan. 
D)  Soviet aid to communist movements in Greece and Turkey. 
A)  the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. 
B)  Soviet arm shipments to North Korea during the Korean War. 
C)  Soviet refusal to allow Eastern European countries to participate in the Marshall Plan. 
D)  Soviet aid to communist movements in Greece and Turkey.

Question 5

Which of the following occurred at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stalin demanded that the United States share the secrets of the atomic bomb. 
B)  The Allies failed to reach agreement over the postwar occupation of Germany. 
C)  Inexperienced in world affairs,Truman used "tough" methods with the Soviets. 
D)  Truman conceded the Soviet Union's right to impose a procommunist government on Poland. 
A)  Stalin demanded that the United States share the secrets of the atomic bomb. 
B)  The Allies failed to reach agreement over the postwar occupation of Germany. 
C)  Inexperienced in world affairs,Truman used "tough" methods with the Soviets. 
D)  Truman conceded the Soviet Union's right to impose a procommunist government on Poland.

Question 6

The National Security Council's report known as NSC-68 proposed that

Accepted Answer

A)  the United States must significantly increase its defense spending. 
B)  good relations with the Soviet Union were imperative. 
C)  critics had exaggerated the strength of the Soviet military. 
D)  a dangerous arms race would follow the development of the hydrogen bomb. 
A)  the United States must significantly increase its defense spending. 
B)  good relations with the Soviet Union were imperative. 
C)  critics had exaggerated the strength of the Soviet military. 
D)  a dangerous arms race would follow the development of the hydrogen bomb.

Question 7

President Eisenhower authorized CIA agents to undermine Mohammad Mossadegh's political power to

Accepted Answer

A)  protect Western oil interests. 
B)  apply the domino theory to the Middle East. 
C)  inhibit the growth of radical Islam. 
D)  hinder an alliance between Iranian and Vietnamese communists. 
A)  protect Western oil interests. 
B)  apply the domino theory to the Middle East. 
C)  inhibit the growth of radical Islam. 
D)  hinder an alliance between Iranian and Vietnamese communists.

Question 8

How did America's deepening involvement in the Third World in the 1950s present the nation with a dilemma?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Practice

Question 9

The opponents of Diem's regime in South Vietnam created a new revolutionary movement in 1961 that was known as the

Accepted Answer

A)  Ho Chi Minh Brigade. 
B)  Vietcong. 
C)  Vietminh. 
D)  Revolutionary Communist Party. 
A)  Ho Chi Minh Brigade. 
B)  Vietcong. 
C)  Vietminh. 
D)  Revolutionary Communist Party.

Question 10

What factor served as the basis for the United States' determination of whether it would support or oppose a country and its government during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The country's stance on communism 
B)  Its geographic location 
C)  Its level of democratic participation 
D)  A country's adherence to UN human rights standards 
A)  The country's stance on communism 
B)  Its geographic location 
C)  Its level of democratic participation 
D)  A country's adherence to UN human rights standards

Question 11

Which of the following was a long-term consequence of the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

A)  The war ended the American military-industrial complex. 
B)  It established a precedent of avoiding atomic weapons in future Cold War conflicts. 
C)  The war convinced Americans of the futility of fighting Asian wars. 
D)  It established the law that the president was the commander-in-chief. 
A)  The war ended the American military-industrial complex. 
B)  It established a precedent of avoiding atomic weapons in future Cold War conflicts. 
C)  The war convinced Americans of the futility of fighting Asian wars. 
D)  It established the law that the president was the commander-in-chief.

Question 12

Which of the following Axis nations did the United States help rebuild economically after World War II to make it a bulwark against communism during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Bulgaria 
B)  East Germany 
C)  Austria 
D)  Japan 
A)  Bulgaria 
B)  East Germany 
C)  Austria 
D)  Japan

Question 13

In what ways did Kennedy's foreign policy break with the past? In what ways was it a continuation of the past?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Continui

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-Loyalty-Security Program

Accepted Answer

A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world. 
A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world.

Question 15

What factors gave rise to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
Answer would ideally include:

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Ideologi

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-Eisenhower Doctrine

Accepted Answer

A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world. 
A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world.

Question 17

Was a Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union inevitable? Explain your answer.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Points o

Question 18

Which of the following occurred as a reaction to the massive wave of strikes that shook the United States in 1946?

Accepted Answer

A)  Congress abolished the Office of Price Administration. 
B)  Truman passed the Employment Act of 1946. 
C)  Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto. 
D)  The U.S.government abandoned its Keynesian economic policies. 
A)  Congress abolished the Office of Price Administration. 
B)  Truman passed the Employment Act of 1946. 
C)  Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto. 
D)  The U.S.government abandoned its Keynesian economic policies.

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-United Nations

Accepted Answer

A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world. 
A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world.

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-Fair Deal

Accepted Answer

A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world. 
A) A meeting of President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill,and Joseph Stalin in February 1945,in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany,the status of Poland,the creation of the United Nations,and Russian entry into the war against Japan. 
B) An international body agreed upon at the Yalta Conference,and founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945,consisting of a General Assembly,in which all nations are represented,and a Security Council of the five major Allied powers-the United States,Britain,France,China,and the Soviet Union-and seven other nations elected on a rotating basis. 
C) The July 1945 conference at which American officials convinced the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone,or far eastern part of Germany.The agreement paved the way for the division of Germany into East and West. 
D) The basic U.S.policy of the Cold War,which sought to contain communism within its existing geographic boundaries.Initially,this policy focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,but in the 1950s it came to include China,North Korea,and other parts of the developing world. 
E) President Harry S.Truman's commitment to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." First applied to Greece and Turkey in 1947,it became the justification for U.S.intervention into several countries during the Cold War.
F)Aid program begun in 1948 to help European economies recover from World War II.
G)Military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States,Canada,and Western European nations to counter any possible Soviet threat.
H)A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance;it included Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and the Soviet Union.
I)Top-secret government report of April 1950 warning that national survival in the face of Soviet communism required a massive military buildup.
J)A combination of moderate liberal policies that preserved the programs of the New Deal welfare state and forthright anticommunism that vilified the Soviet Union abroad and radicalism at home.Adopted by President Truman and the Democratic Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
K)Law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in 1947 that overhauled the 1935 National Labor Relations Act,placing restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers.
L)The domestic policy agenda announced by President Harry S.Truman in 1949.Including civil rights,health care,and education reform,Truman's initiative was only partially successful in Congress.
M)A program created in 1947 by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities.
N)Congressional committee especially prominent during the early years of the Cold War that investigated Americans who might be disloyal to the government or might have associated with communists or other radicals.
O)The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities.
P)President Eisenhower's theory of containment,which warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism in Southeast Asia would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Q)President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
R)A failed U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1961 by anti-Castro forces who planned to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
S)The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
T)Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education,health,and other projects in developing countries around the world.

Exam 24: Cold War America, 1945-1963

Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? Answer Key

Answer the following questions : -Cuban missile crisis

Which 1962 event prompted a slight thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations?

During the late 1940s and early 1950s,the United States and the USSR came closest to war over

Which of the following occurred at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?

The National Security Council's report known as NSC-68 proposed that

President Eisenhower authorized CIA agents to undermine Mohammad Mossadegh's political power to

How did America's deepening involvement in the Third World in the 1950s present the nation with a dilemma?

The opponents of Diem's regime in South Vietnam created a new revolutionary movement in 1961 that was known as the

What factor served as the basis for the United States' determination of whether it would support or oppose a country and its government during the 1950s?

Which of the following was a long-term consequence of the Korean War?

Which of the following Axis nations did the United States help rebuild economically after World War II to make it a bulwark against communism during the Cold War?

In what ways did Kennedy's foreign policy break with the past? In what ways was it a continuation of the past?

Answer the following questions : -Loyalty-Security Program

What factors gave rise to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union? Answer would ideally include:

Answer the following questions : -Eisenhower Doctrine

Was a Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union inevitable? Explain your answer.

Which of the following occurred as a reaction to the massive wave of strikes that shook the United States in 1946?

Answer the following questions : -United Nations

Answer the following questions : -Fair Deal

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

Filters