How did the US bring an end to the Suez Crisis in 1956?

The withheld oil from the British and French.

What were the "Little Rock 9" famous for?

integrating Central High School

What is the significance of Dien Bien Phu?

Battle that cost the French control of Vietnam

What was the effect of NSC-68?

Increased military spending under Truman

Why did Stalin close off access to West Berlin in 1948?

In response to the unification of the Western zones

Which of the following did not happend in 1949?

North Korea invades South Korea

What was the primary purpose of the Marshall Plan?

The economic recovery of Europe

Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience was in response to

the accusation of Joseph McCarthy

Which of the following was not a major trend during the postwar years and the 1950's?

An increase in union membership and activity.

Which of the following was not a direct effect of the GI Bill?

A great increase in the number of children being born

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1
How did the US bring an end to the Suez Crisis in 1956?
The withheld oil from the British and French.
They led a NATO military intervention.
They did not get involved.
They used the CIA to install a new leader in Egypt.
2
Joseph McCarthy's wave of fear finally came to an end when he made the mistake of accusing
The Rosenbergs
The State Department
The military
The President
3
In which of the following Cold War battlegrounds did the US not intervene?
Vietnam
Guatemala
Iran
Hungary
4
What were the "Little Rock 9" famous for?
Challenging segregated buses
integrating Central High School
Desegregating Woolworth's lunch counters
Being victims of racial violence
5
Which of the following countries was NOT behind the iron curtain?
Austria
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
6
What is the significance of Dien Bien Phu?
Last stronghold of Nationalist Chinese agains the communists
Battle that cost the French control of Vietnam
Cite of the cease-fire in the Korean War
7
Where was the decison to partition Germany into 3 (later 4) zones decided?
Casablanca 1943
Yalta 1945
Bretton Woods 1944
Potsdam 1945
8
What was the effect of NSC-68?
Increased military spending under Truman
Decreased the size fo the military
A buildup of nuclear warheads
founding of the CIA by Eisenhower
9
Why did Stalin close off access to West Berlin in 1948?
In response to the formation of NATO
In response to the Truman Doctrine
In response to the unification of the Western zones
American aid to South Korea
10
Where and when did Martin Luther King, Jr. first rise to national prominence?
Topeka 1954
Little Rock 1957
Greensboro 1960
Montgomery 1955
11
Which of the following did not happend in 1949?
North Korea invades South Korea
Soviets test first atomic bomb
China becomes communist
NATO Founded
12
What was the primary purpose of the Marshall Plan?
The containment of communism in former colonial possessions
obtaining allies in Europe against the Soviets
The economic recovery of Europe
A missile defense Network in the Atlantic
13
What 1947 document became the basis for containment and the Truman Doctrine?
Truman's "Give 'Em Hell" Speech
The NATO Charter
The Marshall Plan
Kennan's Long Telegram
14
Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience was in response to
The Truman Loyalty Program
The Alger Hiss Case
The Rosenberg Trial
the accusation of Joseph McCarthy
15
Which of the following was not a major trend during the postwar years and the 1950's?
The growth of suburban developments.
migration to the Sunbelt.
An increase in union membership and activity.
The increase of the automobile's importance in daily life.
16
Which of the following was not a direct effect of the GI Bill?
An increase of workers capable of filling white collar jobs
Prevented the job market from being flooded with veterans
A great increase in college enrollment
A great increase in the number of children being born
17
What is the most powerful part of the United Nations?
The WHO
The General Assembly
NATO
The Security Council
18
Which Civil Rights Organization existed prior to the 1950's?
NAACP
SNCC
SCLC
19
What was Eisenhower's largest contribution to Domestic policy?
Federal Highways
Civil Rights Legislation
Education Reform
Expansion of social security
20
Who coined the term "iron curtain?"
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Truman
21
What was the primary purpose of NATO?
Mutual Defense
Economic development
Free Trade
Spreading Democracy

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