CH. 25
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was
A) A mutual defense treaty made up of European and North American nations pledged to protect one another in case of an attack by the Soviet Union.
Which of the following was a result of the Marshall Plan?
A) By 1950, participating countries exceeded prewar production levels.
After the war, African Americans
A) Expected to enjoy the rights and privileges they had acquired during the war.
The Truman Doctrine was designed to prevent a Communist takeover in
A) Greece and Turkey.
Which of the following best summarizes the official meaning of the Truman Doctrine?
A) The United States must support free peoples in their struggle against subjugation.
About the Soviet Union, George Kennan wrote that
A) There can be no peaceful coexistence between capitalism and socialism.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
A) Tried, convicted, and executed for conspiring to steal American atomic information.
Alger Hiss was accused of having once been a member of a secret Communist cell in the government. He had been employed as
B) An aide in the State Department.
__________ was the first African American man in decades to play in major league baseball.
B) Jackie Robinson
The Cold War became global because
B) Strife in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America was seen as a part of the conflict between the United States and USSR.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947 by
B) The National Security Act.
Which of the following is a source of the conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
B) The belief that capitalism and Communism cannot coexist.
The GI Bill of 1944 provided veterans with
B) Up to three years' college education paid for by the federal government.
Who caused the Cold War?
C) Both countries were equally responsible.
General MacArthur's early successes in Korea were reversed when
C) Communist Chinese forces entered the war on the side of North Korea.
Joseph McCarthy spearheaded an anti-Communist hysteria that
C) Destroyed the lives of thousands of Americans.
Why were U.S. troops stuck with a "die for a tie" situation in Korea?
C) Nuclear weapons were not an option.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
C) Targeted the film industry.
The Treaty of Detroit 1950 covered what topic?
C) Workers' contracts lasting at least five years and a pension plan.
Why were Americans startled by the news that U.S. troops would be fighting in Korea?
D) Korea was not considered strategically important until 1950.
At the conclusion of the war in Korea, the country was divided between North and South Korea at
D) The 38th parallel.
How did the U.S. development of the nuclear bomb affect U.S.-Soviet relations?
D) U.S. secrecy about the development of the bomb further strained U.S.-Soviet relations.