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What person came to power in Germany in 1933 as head of the Nazi (National Socialist Workers) party?
Adolf Hitler
What battle did the Germans launch a surprise counteroffensive in Belgium against the Allies in December 1944?
Battle of the Bulge
What person, known as IL Duce, became the Fascist leader and later dictator of Italy in the 1920s
Benito Mussolini
President Roosevelt's lend lease program allowed
Britain to borrow military equipment from the U.S.
President Franklin Roosevelt's "lend lease" program allowed:
Britain to borrow military equipment from the U.S.,
What United States organization was established in 1947 to coordinate the gathering and evaluation of military and economic information on foreign nations?
Central Intelligence Agency,
All of the following statements about the Second Red Scare are true except
Democrats used the scare to discredit Dwight Eisenhower's political coalition.
What minor political party was formed by many Southerners as a result of the civil rights' proposals of the 1948 Democratic convention?
Dixiecrat
What did President Truman call his domestic legislative program of social and economic reforms beginning in 1949?
Fair Deal
What did President Harry Truman call his domestic legislative program of social and economic reforms beginning in 1949 ?
Fair Deal,
What American general was dismissed from his command for openly challenging President Truman's civilian control of the military during the Korean war?
General Douglas MacArthur
Which three nations joined the Tripartite Axis Pact of 1940?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What person established The President's Committee on Civil Rights to investigate race relations and develop an agenda for racial justice after the 1946 elections?
Harry Truman
What person, who was selected vice-president in the election of 1944, would succeed to the presidency upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt on April 12, 1945?
Harry Truman
What person, who was selected vice-president in the election of 1944, would succeed to the presidency upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt on April 12, 1945?
Harry Truman.
What name was given to the systematic murder of millions of European Jews and others by Nazi Germany in the concentration camps?
Holocaust
What Congressional Committee was established to investigate alleged subversives and Communists after World War II and began hearings to expose Communist influence in American life beginning in 1945-47?
House Committee on Un-American Activities
What was the purpose of the Atlantic Charter of 1941 ?
It emphasized the defeat of Germany as the first priority,
What was the purpose of the Taft-Hartley Plan?
It was an attempt by big business to reverse gains made by organized labor,
What group of Americans were sent to relocation camps in the West and Southwest in 1942 by a presidential executive order because of a possible threat to national security?
Japanese-Americans
What person led the Nationalists forces in the Chinese civil war?
Jiang Jieshi
What U.S. Senator from Wisconsin charged that there were Communists in the State Department in 1950 during the Second Red Scare?
Joseph McCarthy.
The United States program to develop the atomic bomb during World War II was the:
Manhattan Project,
The United States program to develop the atomic bomb during World War II was the
Manhattan Project.
What American program in June 1947 proposed massive U.S. assistance for European recovery and rebuilt the economy of Western Europe to prevent any internal Communist revolutions?
Marshall Plan
What American program in June 1947 proposed massive U.S. assistance for European recovery and rebuilt the economy of western Europe to prevent any internal Communist revolutions?
Marshall Plan.
With the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, what position did President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States take in the beginning?
Neutrality
What was the name of the first military alliance against Soviet expansion in Western Europe which the United States joined in 1949 with much military aid?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Allied invasion of northern Europe, D-Day, on June 6, 1944 was called:
Operation Overlord,
The Allied invasion of northern Europe, D-Day, on June 6, 1944 was called
Operation Overlord.
Which statement about Pearl harbor is true?
Over 2,000 Americans were killed in the surprise Japanese attack.
What event led President Roosevelt to declare that December 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy?
Pearl Harbor
The Second World War in Europe began on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of what country?
Poland
The Second World War in Europe began on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of what country?
Poland,
Which of the following groups were known as the BIG Three leaders of World War II?
Stalin, Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt
The forty-five year struggle for world dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union is called
The Cold War.
Who first declared that an Iron Curtain had descended across the European continent between Western and Eastern Europe after World War II?
Winston Churchill
Who first declared that an "Iron Curtain" had descended across the European continent between western and eastern Europe after World War II ?
Winston Churchill,
Which World War II conference of February 1945 has been subjected to bitter criticism because of the many concessions made to Russia for help against Japan along with the military division of Germany?
Yalta
The defense policy document known as NSC-68
advocated a massive expansion of the American military and defense expenditures.
Levittown represented a change toward
affordable homes in American suburbs.
The United States and other Western nations responded to the Berlin blockade by:
airlifting supplies into the isolated city.
The content of George Kennan's long telegram about containment depicted
an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expansionist communism.
The America First Committee was known for its
belief that the U.S. should defend its own borders and not its European allies.
How did the United States assure western Europeans that it would honor its NATO commitment and this became the nucleus of the NATO force?
by deploying American troops in western Europe
The Office of Price Administration fought inflation:
by implementing price controls and rationing,
The Office of Price Administration fought inflation
by implementing price controls and rationing.
Civil Rights reforms enacted by the Truman administration included
desegregation of the armed forces
The Atlantic Charter of 1941
emphasized the defeat of Germany as the first priority.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were designed:
ensure the U.S.'s central role in the reviving world economy and trade,
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were designed to
ensure the U.S.'s central role in the reviving world economy and trade.
President Harry Truman and Congress, through the Truman Doctrine in 1947, appropriated $400 million to:
fight Communism in Greece and Turkey,
President Truman and Congress, through the Truman Doctrine, in 1947, appropriated $400 million to
fight communism in Greece and Turkey.
The Employment Act of 1946 did not
guarantee full employment for all American workers.
The G.I. Bill was geared at helping veterans in the areas of:
housing and education,
The G. I. Bill was geared at helping veterans in the areas of
housing and education.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson and President Truman believed that North Korea's invasion of South Korea
involved planning by the Soviet Union.
The American strategy in the Pacific has been often called
island hopping.
What was meant by the term Blitzkrieg, which was introduced by Germany during World War II?
lightening warfare
In the Potsdam Declaration Conference of 1945, the U.S. attempted to:
open a door for a Japanese surrender.
In the Potsdam Declaration Conference of 1945, the U.S. attempted to
open the door for a Japanese surrender.
What couple were executed in 1953 for allegedly passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union?
the Rosenbergs
Results of the Korean war on the United States included all of the following except:
the Soviet Union became once again convinced of the U.S. military invulnerability
In the period after World War II (1946-1951), fears of Communism were increased by all of the following except
the Soviet installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba
The main reason behind President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb was:
the bomb offered a quick end to the conflict and would save troop lives,
The main reason behind President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb was
the bomb offered a quick end to the conflict and would save troops' lives
Which statement about Native Americans in World War II is true?
they often served as effective code-talkers by using Native American languages
At the meeting of the Western Allies at Casablanca in 1943, it was decided that
they would fight the Axis powers until they achieved an unconditional surrender.
What was the purpose of the D-Day invasion?
to liberate France from German control
The Taft-Hartley Act
was an attempt by big business to reverse gains made by organized labor.
