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