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All of the following are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council EXCEPT
Russia
China
The United Kingdom
Germany
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Act which first put nuclear weapons and research under civilian, not military, control in the United States
Energy Policy Act
Barach Plan
Nuclear Energy Act
Atomic Energy Act
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This president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb and relieved MacArthur from command
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Franklin Roosevelt
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General who led the U.N. forces in Korea and pushed North Korea back to the Yalu River
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
George Marshall
Mathew Ridgeway
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At the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg, the Nazis were charged with all of the following crimes EXCEPT
Crimes against humanity
Murder
Conspiring to commit war
War crimes
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Communist leader of China during the Communist Revolution
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai Shek
Kim Il Sung
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What was the name of the Cold War alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in Eastern Europe?
SEATO
The Berlin Pact
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
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Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Eisenhower Doctrine
European Recovery Act
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At this conference, the Allies decided to divide Germany into four sectors
Yalta
Potsdam
Nuremburg
Berlin
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Large Japanese corporations that were broken up after World War II
zaibatsus
zabuton
zazen
zainichi
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This State Department lawyer was accused of being a spy and was convicted of perjury
Alger Hiss
Owen Lattimore
Whittaker Chambers
Hiram Bingham
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Cold War policy articulated by John Foster Dulles
Domino Theory
brinkmanship
Marshall Plan
containment
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State Department official who first proposed the policy of containment
George Kennan
Joseph McCarthy
Henry Kissinger
Bernard Baruch
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One of the United States' first delegates to the United Nations
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Marshall
David Ben Gurion
George Kennan
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Following World War II, this emperor was allowed to stay in power in Japan
Akihito
Isoroku Yamamoto
Hideki Tojo
Hirohito
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Nations that were part of the Warsaw Pact and under Soviet control were referred to as these
dependent nations
territories
satellite nations
occupation zones
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Organization that was created to urge the US to negotiate with the USSR to end nuclear testing
CIA
NASA
NSC
SANE
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Act passed in the U.S. after the launch of Sputnik to improve math and science in schools
Math and Science Act
National Defense Education Act
School Improvement Act
Secondary Education Act
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Married couple who were tried and executed for espionage in 1951
Fred and Ethel Mertz
Ward and June Cleaver
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Jonah and Miriam Goldberg
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Movement for a Jewish homeland
Kabbalah
Zionism
Hadassah
Zemanism
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Established by Truman to investigate federal employees
Internal Security Act
Loyalty Review Board
National Security Council
House Un-American Activities Committee
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Nation established as a Jewish homeland in 1948
Lebannon
Jordan
Syria
Israel
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The policy that the U.S. should assist nations resisting subjugation is this
The Eisenhower Doctrine
Brinkmanship
Containment
The Truman Doctrine
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Government agency created to advise the president on national security
NCIS
CIA
NSC
CID
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Created to GATHER intelligence information for military and political purposes
CID
NSC
CIA
NCIS
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Nationalist leader of China who lost the revolution and fled to Taiwan
Kim Il Sung
Mao Zedong
Syngman Rhee
Chiang Kai Shek
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Organization established to promote space technology
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Administration
Space Force
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Following the Korean War, Korea was divided a this parallel
43rd
38th
51st
68th
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What was the Cold War alliance between the U.S. and Western European countries?
The United Nations
The League of Nations
SEATO
NATO
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Wisconsin senator who headed HUAC and had a "list" of suspected communists
Joseph McCarthy
J. Edgar Hoover
Alger Hiss
George Welch
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First satellite launched into space
Pioneer
Luna
Sputnik
Explorer I
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All of the following were U.S. policies to stop the spread of communism EXCEPT
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
brinkmanship
containment
33
President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the CIA to instigate a coup d'état in this middle eastern country in 1953
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Egypt
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This required all communists to register with the government
Internal Security Act
National Security Council
House Un-American Activities Committee
Loyalty Review Board
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Committee created to root out communists within American society
Loyalty Review Board
House Un-American Activities Committee
Internal Security Commission
National Security Council
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Conflict between the United States and Soviet Union for dominance and influence around the world
the Cold War
the War on Terror
the Communist Revolution
Apartheid