CH 22 Cold War

Question 1

NATO was created to

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be a mutual defense alliance.

Question 2

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were exeuted for signing people into the Communist Party.

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False

Question 3

The Truman Doctrine established our foreign policy which was called

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containment.

Question 4

Who wrote the novel TOMORROW about America trying to recover from a nuclear attack?

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Philip Wylie

Question 5

The leader of the Chinese Nationalist forces was Chaing Kai Shek

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True

Question 6

The Egyptians seized the Suez Canal in order to pay for their economic recovery.

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False

Question 7

The US gets caught spying on the USSR when they shot down

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our U-2 plane.

Question 8

When Britain, France and the US merged their zones the USSR

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cut off Berlin's roads and raliways blockading it.

Question 9

North and South Korea were divided

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at the 38th parallel.

Question 10

Who was the American general in charge of occupied Japan who led troops in the Korean War?

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MacArthur

Question 11

Communist forces were led by Mao Zedong who will become the leader of Communist China

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True

Question 12

What was the drill American children practiced in the event of a nuclear attack called?

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duck and cover

Question 13

Sen. Joseph McCarthy energized the Red Scare by declaring that the

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there were 205 Communists in the State Department.

Question 14

Truman fired Gen. Douglas McArthur for demanding that the US should invade China and going public when he was denied.

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True

Question 15

Truman favored a military plan of atomic warfare over conventional warfare.

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False

Question 16

Who was the Director of the FBI who got HUAC involved during the Red Scare?

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J. Edgar Hoover

Question 17

The CIA ws useful in keeping developing nations from becoming democratic.

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False

Question 18

What did Stalin promise at Yalta if he could keep Poland?

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hold free elections

Question 19

The Eisenhower Doctrine gave the US president power to prevent Communism from developing in the Middle East.

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True

Question 20

The Cold War refers to the US and USSR's frigid relations from 1945-1991.

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True

Question 21

At Yalta, Germany was divided into four zones each controlled by an Allied power.

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True

Question 22

The novel HIROSHIMA was written by John Hersey.

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True

Question 23

To keep Communism out of developing nations, Eisenhower used covert operations.

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True

Question 24

The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in

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1949

Question 25

The Soviet Union's response to NATO was the Warsaw Pact.

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True

Question 26

The goals of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were to

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contain the spread of Communism

Question 27

In the Korean War, the North Koreans will be able to push back UN forces with help from

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China.

Question 28

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

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help Western Europe's economy recover.

Question 29

The practice of threatening nuclear strikes to make an opponent stand down was brinkmanship.

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True

Question 30

The US supported and helped develop Japan's economy to prevent it from becoming a competitior.

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False

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