Chapter 26: The Cold War Smartbook
Joseph McCarthy was...
A Republican senator
The change in U.S. policy outlined in NSC-68 required...
A massive increase in the U.S. defense budget
Who was the Democratic candidate in the presidential election of 1952?
Adlai E. Stevenson
An integral part of the containment policy was to...
Aid the economic reconstruction of Europe
After ousting Chiang Kai-shek from power, the communists controlled...
All of mainland China but not Taiwan
At a conference in Potsdam in July 1945, Truman...
Allowed Stalin to adjust the German-Polish border
Which of the following describe the vision of the postwar world that appealed to Roosevelt and many other Americans?
An international organization serving as arbiter of disputes and protector of every nation's right to self-determination Nations governing their relations with one another through democratic processes
The fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear destruction...
Appeared widely in popular culture
The agreement that formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Called for the maintenance of a standing military force in Europe Declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all
The expansion of the containment doctrine established in NSC-68 was a response to the Soviet Union's development of a nuclear weapon and the rise of communism in...
China
MacArthur's invasion of North Korea appeared to be on its way to victory until...
China intervened
MacArthur's invasion of North Korea...
Collapsed after reaching the capital
Faced with the threat of further Soviet expansion, the Truman administration developed the policy known as...
Containment
In Korea at the end of the war, the United States and the Soviet Union...
Divided the nation between them along the 38th parallel
A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would...
Do more good than harm in the long run
Who was the Republican candidate in the presidential election of 1952?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which of the following occurred in the election of 1952?
Eisenhower pledged to settle the Korean conflict A long period of Democratic dominance ended Nixon exploited the issue of domestic anticommunism
Stalin's true motivation for his actions after the war was to...
Ensure Soviet security
Which countries were to be represented in the United Nations' General Assembly?
Every member country
T/F: The establishment of the United Nations met far more opposition in the U.S. Senate than had been encountered by the League of Nations several decades earlier
False - the Senate ratified the United Nations charter by a wide margin, in sharp contrast to its failure to ratify the League of Nations
At the time of his accession to the presidency, Truman...
Had almost no familiarity with international issues
The Truman Doctrine was based in part on the work of George F. Kennan, who believed that Soviet expansionism...
Had to be contained
Which of the following hampered Truman's ability to "get tough" with the Soviets after assuming office?
He had little leverage over Russia and was unable to enter into a renewed conflict in Europe
During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government...
He never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist
How did NSC-68 reflect a change in U.S. policy from the initial statements of the containment doctrine?
It removed any limits to the execution of the containment policy
At the Yalta conference,...
It was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War
The administration of Syngman Rhee, South Korea's leader at the time of the North Korean invasion, was...
Nominally democratic but anticommunist
The founding charter of the United Nations established a Security Council composed of...
Permanent and temporary delegations
Much of the anticommunist furor in the United States emerged from...
Politically motivated attacks by the Republicans on the Democrats
The establishment of NATO...
Preceded the signing of the Warsaw Pact by several years
Upon what faulty premise was the doctrine of containment based?
That communists sought to spread their ideology in a global revolution
Which of the following best describes the results of the 1952 elections?
The Republicans took control of the White House and both houses of Congress
McCarthy's first investigations targeted...
The State Department
By the end of 1945 the Korean peninsula had been occupied by troops from...
The United States and Soviet Union
As put forth in the Truman Doctrine, the policy of containment was...
The basis of American policy for more than forty years
The Cold War intensified in 1949 with...
The first successful test of an atomic weapon by the Soviet Union
The first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was...
The movie industry
Which of the following happened after Hollywood writers and producers refused to answer HUAC questions about their political beliefs?
They were jailed for contempt They were blacklisted and barred from employment
T/F: The desire to economically strengthen Western European nations was due to a fear they might fall under control of domestic communist parties
True - American policymakers believed that unless something could be done to strengthen the shaky pro-American governments in Western Europe, those governments might fall under the control of domestic communist parties
T/F: When Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency, he viewed Stalin with deep suspicion and even hatred
True - Truman considered the Soviet Union as fundamentally untrustworthy and viewed Stalin himself with suspicion and even hatred
T/F: In the postwar period, the Soviet Union wanted to control Central and Eastern Europe and use the region as a protective buffer against the West
True - the Soviet Union wanted to create a sphere of influence against any future Western aggression
Which of the following actions at Potsdam confirmed that Germany would remain divided?
Truman refused to allow the Russians to claim reparations for the American, French and British zones of Germany
The National Security Council report known as NSC-68 urged the United States to resist communist expansion...
Virtually anywhere it occurred
China entered the war...
When American forces neared the Chinese border
Under the policy of containment, the U.S. and its allies would...
Work to prevent Soviet expansion