TEST 4
At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on
A. the government of Poland. B. the unification of Germany. C. war reparations to the Soviet Union.
After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from
Australia and New Zealand.
n the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive was stopped at the town of ______________
Bastogne
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was
George Marshall
During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was
Italy
In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on
North Africa
In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in
Poland
In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included
Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.
In 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, the Allies decided they would next invade
Sicily
President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union
after his first few days in office
By the end of World War II, the Pacific Coast had become the center of the American ______________ industry.
aircraft
At the January 1943 ______________ Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a British plan for the invasion of Sicily.
casablanca
In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for
each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others
George Marshall placed General ___________________ in charge of the plan for the invasion of France in 1944.
eisenhower
In early 1945, at the Yalta Conference
it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War.
By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had
little popular support
The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan
In 1950, the immediate cause of the Korean War was the
military invasion by North Korea into South Korea
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions.
During the Korean War, the American invasion at Inchon
prompted President Truman to try and push communists out of North Korea.
In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it
quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority.
Rapid technological advances by American and British scientists in ________ and ________ greatly assisted the Allied air and sea war efforts
radar, sonar
The 1946 elections
saw Republicans win control of both houses of Congress
The Battle of Midway in 1942
saw the United States suffer great losses. was a stunning defeat for the Japanese navy. lasted four days.
The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated
the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than thirty years.
In 1948, the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to
the creation of a unified West Germany.
President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for
the creation of national health insurance
Between 1947-1950, Marshall Plan aid
was offered to the Soviet Union.