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