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Unit 12: The Cold War and 1950s
Unit 12: The Cold War and 1950s
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1
Did Communism pose a domestic threat?
no
yes
2
The essential element of the policy of containment was?
A commitment to holding communism within the USSR & E Europe
A policy of isolationism outside of the W. Hemisphere
A commitment to rolling back communism.
A commitment to expanding the influence of capitalism.
3
The main economic problem faced by President Truman in his first term was?
a dwindling money supply
deflation
falling prices
inflation
4
The decade of the 1950s in the United States was characterized by which of the following?
a rise in the number of women employees in the workforce.
more women than men in the legal and medical professions.
a declining birth rate.
a decline in the life expectancy of women.
5
The Eisenhower administration's policy in the Middle East included all of the following EXCEPT?
punishing Egypt for its friendliness towards the USSR.
landing marines at Beirut to protect the existing regime.
support for the British & French invasion of the Suez.Canal
use of the CIA to overthrow the leader of Iran.
6
Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to?
give up plans for uniting the three Western zones of Germany
airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year
use military force to break the blockade of land routes into
abandon the Western-occupied portions of Berlin.
7
Eisenhower's domestic program was described as "dynamic conservatism." A key part was...
national health insurance.
supported private over public power projects.
the repeal of New Deal legislation.
reduced social security benefits.
8
The Taft-Harley Act of 1947 provided for all of the following EXCEPT?
permitting employers to sue unions.
requiring a sixty-day cooling off period before strikes.
permitting union contributions to political campaigns.
union leaders had to take oaths that they weren't Communists
9
The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because?
the USSR boycotted Security Council sessions.
the General Assembly approved the decision.
the United States outvoted the Soviet Union.
the USSR opposed the North Korean invasion of the South.
10
Which had a more significant impact on elevating tensions during the Cold War?
Soviet efforts to expand its sphere of influence
America's use of the atomic bomb.
11
In his farewell address in 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American people against?
the rise of military pacifism.
the influence of the military-industrial complex.
the tendency to hysterical anti-communism.
the risk of creeping socialism.
12
President Eisenhower opposed Truman's plan for?
raising the minimum wage.
Social Security increases.
creating the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
national health insurance.
13
Most of Truman's Fair Deal program?
Liberal Republicans & N Democrats helped it pass.
was defeated by filibuster tactics.
A coalition of Republicans & S Democrats defeated it.
was passed after long debate.
