DEUSH Chapter 27 Test Form A

As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States

T/F: At Teheran, Stalin made it clear that he urgently needed a second front against Nazi Germany

False

T/F: At the time that he became president, Harry Truman shared former President Roosevelt's faith that Stalin would be reasonable and flexible

False

T/F: The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles

False

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

Richard Nixon

Joseph McCarty burst into national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the

State Department

T/F: At Yalta, the Big Three agreed to create a United Nations with a Security Council in which the major powers would have the power to veto proposed action

True

T/F: In 1950, Alger Hiss was convicted of spying on the United States.

True

T/F: NSC-68 presumed that the United States could not necessarily rely on other nations to take the initiative in resisting communism.

True

T/F: President Truman was the first president in the twentieth century to propose significant civil rights legislation

True

T/F: The "zones of occupation" for postwar Germany left Berlin well inside the Soviet zone

True

T/F: The American military response in Korea began with an invasion at Pyongyang

True

T/F: The results of the 1946 midterm elections showed that the American people were still solidly behind the ideals of the New Deal.

True

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were

accused of passing American secrets to its enemies

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

after his first few days in office

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 D. all of the above

all of the above

Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt

became increasingly concerned, though not without hope, that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements

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

calling on the United Nations to intervene

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

creation of a unified West Germany

In the 1948 presidential election,

early polls had seemed to indicate that Harry Truman would lose.

When Joseph McCarthy first leveled charges of communist infiltration in the government, he was a

first-term Republican senator

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

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

President Harry Truman's actions after the 1946 election included

proposing a major civil rights bill

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

publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea

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

quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority

The election of 1952 saw

television play a role in the campaign

In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for

the Soviet Union

All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT

the United States left Korea in 1946

U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan

was offered to the Soviet Union

During the mid-1940s, the American economy

was plagued by serious inflation