Question 1

How were the ideas of George F.Kennan reflected in Truman's Cold War policies?

Accepted Answer

He argued that communism was simply an i

Question 2

Which of the following describes life in the United States during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fearful of powerful government,the public insisted on decreasing the power of the president. 
B)  Tension over communism abroad fostered a period of domestic repression and fear at home. 
C)  Intent on protecting itself from communism,the United States banned covert operations abroad. 
D)  Fearing creeping socialism,Congress cut back on Social Security and unemployment insurance. 
A)  Fearful of powerful government,the public insisted on decreasing the power of the president. 
B)  Tension over communism abroad fostered a period of domestic repression and fear at home. 
C)  Intent on protecting itself from communism,the United States banned covert operations abroad. 
D)  Fearing creeping socialism,Congress cut back on Social Security and unemployment insurance.

Question 3

Which of the following statements characterizes the events surrounding the Suez crisis?

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A)  Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and later built the Aswan Dam with Soviet assistance. 
B)  The United States supported the attack on Egypt carried out by Israel,Great Britain,and France after the Egyptian government nationalized the Suez Canal. 
C)  Soviet influence in the Third World declined because it became apparent that the Soviet Union could not defend its allies. 
D)  With the West's attention focused on the Suez Canal,the Soviet Union took advantage of the situation to seize control of Afghanistan. 
A)  Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and later built the Aswan Dam with Soviet assistance. 
B)  The United States supported the attack on Egypt carried out by Israel,Great Britain,and France after the Egyptian government nationalized the Suez Canal. 
C)  Soviet influence in the Third World declined because it became apparent that the Soviet Union could not defend its allies. 
D)  With the West's attention focused on the Suez Canal,the Soviet Union took advantage of the situation to seize control of Afghanistan.

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-containment

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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 5

Why did the United States support right-wing dictatorships?

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How were the ideas of George F.Kennan reflected in Truman's Cold War policies?

Which of the following describes life in the United States during the Cold War?

Which of the following statements characterizes the events surrounding the Suez crisis?

Answer the following questions : -containment

Why did the United States support right-wing dictatorships?

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

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Exam 24: Cold War America, 1945-1963

How were the ideas of George F.Kennan reflected in Truman's Cold War policies?

Which of the following describes life in the United States during the Cold War?

Which of the following statements characterizes the events surrounding the Suez crisis?

Answer the following questions : -containment

Why did the United States support right-wing dictatorships?

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

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