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- 1. The origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in
- a) Eastern Europe
- 2. The NSC-68 called for
- a) A massive increase in military spending
- 3. The feminist revolt of the 1960s was sparked by
- a) a clash between the demands of the traditional role of women as wives and mothers and the realities of employment
- 4. The immediate concern that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to events in
- a) Greece and Turkey
- 5. Harry Truman possessed all of the following personal characteristics except
- a) willingness to admit mistakes
- 6. In an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the Truman administration did all of the following except
- a) continue wartime wage and price controls
- 7. Joseph Stalin’s postwar security concerns focused primarily on
- a) Eastern Europe
- 8. The post-World War II prosperity in the U.S. was most beneficial to
- a) labor unions
- 9. In regard to postwar Germany, the Big Three allies agreed that
- a) high-ranking Nazis should be tried and punished for war crimes
- 10. One sign of the stress that the immediate growth of post-World War II geographic mobility placed an American families was the
- a) popularity of advice books on child-rearing
- 11. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was passed to check the growing power of
- a) labor unions
- 12. Postwar Japan
- a) Had its military leaders tried for war crimes, as had occurred in Germany.
- 13. All of the following objected to President Truman’s support for the establishment of Israel except
- a) The Soviet Union
- 14. The postwar policies adopted by the Truman administration toward the Soviet Union were based on the assumption that the Soviet Union was inherently
- a) expansionist
- 15. The rapid rise of suburbia in post-WWII America can be attributed to
- a) all of the above
- 16. President Truman’s Marshall Plan called for
- a) substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe
- 17. The United States, under the North Atlantic Treaty pact,
- a) pledged a hard-and-fast commitment to provide armed assistance to any member nation attacked by the Soviet Union
- 18. The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by
- a) outlawing the “closed” (all-union) shops
- 19. President Truman’s action upon hearing of the invasion of South Korea illustrated his commitment to a foreign policy of
- a) containment
- 20. The Marshall Plan finally passed Congress largely because it was perceived there as
- a) anticommunist
- 21. In 1948, many southern Democrats split from the party because
- a) President Truman took a strong stand in favor of civil rights
- 22. The U.S. believed that it was desirable to have the Soviet Union participate in the projected invasion of Japan because
- a) The Soviets could help control the Chinese communists
- 23. The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief
- a) In our limitless capabilities
- 24. Post-World War II American workers made spectacular gains in productivity owing to
- a) the continued growth unions
- 25. Population distribution after World War II followed a pattern of
- a) an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and white in major cities
- 26. When the Soviet Union the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by
- a) declaring that an “iron curtain” had descended across Central Europe
- 27. Much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on
- a) colossal military budgets
- 28. The huge “baby boom” crested in the ________________ and has been declining ever since.
- a) early 1950s
- 29. The refusal of FHA administrators to grant home loans to blacks resulted in
- a) all of the above
- 30. The baby-boom generation will create a major problem in the future by
- a) overbuilding the number of schools
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