Chapter 27 Multiple choice questions

NATO stands for ________.

North Atlantic treaty Organization

The most important question at the Teheran Conference concerned the future of ________.

Poland

12. In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

Poland.

Truman met in July 1945 at ________, in Russian-occupied Germany, with Churchill and Stalin.

Potsdam

A freshman congressman from California named ________ helped convict Alger Hiss.

Richard Nixon

49. Of the following, the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss primarily helped the political career of

Richard Nixon.

23. In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included

Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.

States were given permission to pass "right-to-work" laws by the ________ Act of 1947

Taft-Hartly

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met together for the first time at ________.

Teheran

Beginning in 1947, the House ________ Committee instituted a serious investigation of internal subversion.

Un-American Activites

2. In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally.

1. In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

Winston Churchill.

11. President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union

after his first few days in office.

21. In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

airlifting supplies to West Berlin.

8. All the following statements regarding the "occupation zones" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that

all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control.

People in Hollywood who were suspected of being subversive were ________ from employment.

barred/blacklisted

9. Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt

became increasingly concerned that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements.

50. In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by

beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees.

41. The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by

calling on the United Nations to intervene.

During the 1952 campaign, Richard Nixon kept his place on the Republican ticket with his televised "________ speech."

checkers

44. The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was

criticism of President Truman

22. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.

25. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.

10. In 1945, when Harry Truman became president, he

had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs.

36. The Supreme Court case of Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) dealt a blow to

housing discrimination.

37. A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would

in the long run, do more good than harm.

4. In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

it was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War.

13. By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

little popular support.

38. The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea.

33. In the 1948 presidential election,

most people believed Harry Truman would lose.

30. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

permitted the "union shop."

42. The American invasion at Inchon during the Korean War

prompted President Truman to try to push communists out of North Korea.

31. President Harry Truman responded to the 1946 election results by

proposing a major civil rights bill.

43. In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur

publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.

Alger Hiss was in part convicted by Whittaker Chambers's "________ papers."

pumpkin papers

6. In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it

quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority.

45. During the Korean War, the Truman administration faced major strikes in the industries of

rail and steel.

29. The 1946 elections

saw Republicans win control of both houses of Congress.

14. In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia let

the Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan.

39. All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that

the United States left Korea in 1946.

24. The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world.

15. Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

28. President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance.

47. In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was

the movie industry.

Senator Joseph McCarthy routinely accused the Democrats of committing "twenty years of ________."

treason

32. In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action

tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president.

27. Following World War II, the great majority of working American women

wanted to keep working.

America's major military and diplomatic institutions were reshaped by the ________ Act of 1947.

National Sercuity

19. The National Security Act of 1947

All these answers are correct.

7. At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on

All these answers are correct.

Stalin's 1948 decision to blockade ________ intensified the Cold War.

Berlin

In 1951, General ________ was relieved of his command by President Truman.

Douglas McArthu

34. In 1949, President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass

aid for public housing.

20. The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the

creation of a unified West Germany.

5. 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.

35. In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by

ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees.

18. Between 1947 and 1950, Marshall Plan aid

was offered to the Soviet Union.

26. During 1946-1947, the American economy

was plagued by serious inflation.

40. The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after World War II

was pro-Western.

Dwight Eisenhower's Democratic opponent in 1952 was ________.

Aldai Stevenson

16. In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

All these answers are correct.

17. The United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to

All these answers are correct.

46. As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States.

Domestic American opposition to the Marshall Plan virtually ended with the communist coup in ________.

Czechoslovakia

3. At the Teheran Conference in late 1943,

Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months.

The intellectual architect of the containment doctrine was American diplomat ________.

George Kennan

The Truman Doctrine was announced to garner support for American aid to two countries, ________ and Turkey.

Greece

In 1946, the Republicans used the simple slogan, "________" to capture both houses of Congress.

Had Enough

The splinter candidacies of Strom Thurmond and ________ seemed to imperil President Truman's election in 1948.

Henry Wallace

48. All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT that

Hiss was convicted of espionage.