Quiz 17

All the following were candidates for president in the Election of 1948 EXCEPT :

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

General Douglas MacArthur planned and executed this amphibious invasion of Korea, that kept South Korea from being defeated by the North?

Inchon

Long-range effects of NSC-68 included all of the following EXCEPT:

It advised the United States to use only the threat of force to resist communist expansion.

Who were the last Americans to be convicted of treason and executed?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:

Ordered the development of a Hydrogen Bomb

McCarthy's accusations reached absurdity when he claimed Communist agents included

Secretary of State George Marshall

One of HUAC's first targets was to investigate alleged communism in:

The film industry

As the 1948 election approached:

Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble.

Truman fired MacArthur:

because of party politics.

In the period 1946-1954, fears of communism were fueled by all of the following EXCEPT:

the Soviet installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba