Quiz CH 23: The United States & The Cold War, 1945-1953

Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor behind the rise of the Cold War?

Churchill's call for the construction of a great wall between East and West Germany.

Alger Hiss accused Whittaker Chambers, a high-ranking State Department official, of giving him secret government documents to pass along to the Soviet Union.

False

Comprised of the United States, Canada, and ten western European nations, the Warsaw Pact was launched as a collective deterrent against Soviet aggression.

False

In Dennis v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the imprisonment of communist leaders violated the right of free expression.

False

Who was the person who sent the Long Telegram from Moscow in 1946 that lay the foundation for what became known as the policy of "containment"?

George F. Kennan

Who was the U.S. senator who announced that communists were working for the State Department and the Army?

Joseph McCarthy

The first actual fighting of the Cold War, beginning in June 1950, took place in:

Korea

The 1950 National Security Council manifesto that called for a permanent military build-up to enable the U.S. to pursue a global crusade against communism, was:

NSC-68

What was the name of the campaign to unionize the South?

Operation Dixie

Which was not a development of 1949?

The Soviets formalized their own eastern European alliance, the Warsaw Pact.

George Kennan's Long Telegram proposed the policy of containment.

True

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launched hearings into communist influence in Hollywood, and, in consequence, actors, directors, and screenwriters were blacklisted or jailed.

True

In July 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces.

True

The term "totalitarianism" came to describe aggressive, ideologically driven states that sought to subdue all civil society, including churches, unions, and other voluntary associations.

True

The Truman Doctrine articulated in March 1947:

asserted that the U.S., as the leader of the free world, must take up responsibility for supporting free-loving peoples wherever communism threatened them.

In June 1948, when the U.S., Britain, and France introduced a separate currency in their zones of control in the city of Berlin, the Soviet Union responded with:

the Berlin Blockade

President Harry S. Truman's program that focused on enacting a program of national health insurance, and expanding public housing, social security, and aid to education was:

the Fair Deal

The June 1947 U.S. foreign policy initiative that envisioned a New Deal for Europe, and pledged billions of dollars to finance European economic recovery was:

the Marshall Plan

What was the 1947 law that sought to reverse gains made by organized labor in the preceding decade, and authorized the president to suspend strikes by ordering an 80-day cooling-off period, banned sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts, outlawed the closed shop, and authorized states to pass "right to work" laws?

the Taft-Hartley Act

"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United States referred to:

the policy by which the U.S. committed itself to preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.