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Postwar America (Early Cold War) Review
Postwar America (Early Cold War) Review
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The ____ ____ was a long-running collaboration between the U.S. and Great Britain to expose communist spies in the U.S.
Marshall Plan
Venona Project
U2 incident
nuclear war
2
The establishment of the People's Republic of China
shocked Americans and resulted in dramatic shift in policy to Japan.
False
True
3
After World War II, labor unrest in the automobile, steel, electrical, and mining industries was triggered by
rising
...
inflation
communists
CIA
containment
4
The ___ ran covert operations in countries to
overthrow anti-American leaders and replace them with pro-American leaders
containment
CIA
Hungary
Mexico
5
The U.S. policy that was first tested by the invasion of Korea was the _____ policy.
CIA
containment
Soviet
inflation
6
The ____ ____ was a tremendous increase in births within the United States from 1945-1961.
mutual defense
Marshall Plan
baby boom
Suez Canal
7
Television didn't become popular until the 1950s because there were few stations and
television sets were expensive
.
False
True
8
In the 1948 presidential election, some Democrats formed the _____ _____ Party due to Truman's
support of civil rights
.
Suez Canal
mutual defense
States' Rights
Native Americans
9
Eisenhower's strategy of brinkmanship could stop wars, but couldn't
prevent _____ from staging revolutions in countries
.
Hungary
communists
containment
inflation
10
The U.S. senator who claimed to have a list of 205 members of the communist party who worked for the U.S. government.
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
11
President Dwight D. Eisenhower contributed to the successful conclusion of the _____ _____.
Venona Project
U2 incident
nuclear war
Marshall Plan
12
Communism and the arms race:
Americans believed that if one country became communist, then others would follow
.
True
False
13
The United States fought in the Korean War to prevent the
spread of _____ to South Korea.
containment
communism
tuberculosis
Hungary
14
During the 1960s, most advances in the U.S. space program resulted from the need to
surpass the _____ space technology
.
Soviet
Hungary
Korean
Mexico
15
President Eisenhower used the threat of massive retaliation to resolve crises involving Taiwan and the _____ _____.
Marshall Plan
nuclear war
U2 incident
Suez Canal
16
Under the _____ _____, the United States
provided economic aid to Europe
.
Marshall Plan
Venona Project
Joseph McCarthy
nuclear war
17
The original purpose of NATO was _____ _____.
mutual defense
States' Rights
nuclear war
baby boom
18
Cuban Missile Crisis: Khrushchev promised to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba if the U.S. promised
not to invade Cuba
.
False
True
19
During the Cold War, Americans were anxious about the possibility of _____ _____ with the Soviets.
Venona Project
U2 incident
nuclear war
mutual defense
20
President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term "creeping socialism" to refer to
federal aid to businesses
.
True
False