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.