Period 8 Review Homework - Lesson One

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Poll

What Key Concepts do you need to focus on the most?

• Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. (COLD WAR)

• Key Concept 8.2: New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses. (CIVIL RIGHTS)

• Key Concept 8.3: Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching

  consequences for American society, politics, and culture. (AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER

Open Ended

Commit to your goal for this learning task by communicating it to me.

Multiple Choice

President Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War know as the Truman Doctrine. What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

• To expand trade with Europe

• To limit the build up of nuclear weapons

• To stop the spread of communism

• to send financial aid to Europe

Multiple Choice

The policy of containment, justified by George Kennan’s 1947 analysis of the international situation, called for

• blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence

• curbing United States foreign investment to limit involvement in world conflict

• liberating Eastern Europe form communism

• dividing Germany into zones administered by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union

Multiple Choice

“A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. . . . It is my duty . . . to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe.

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone—Greece with its immortal glories —is free to decide its future at an election under British, American, and French observation. . . . The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to preeminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control.”

Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, “Sinews of Peace,” (better known as the “Iron Curtain Speech”), 1946

A key significance of Churchill’s purpose in the excerpt was that it helped prompt the United States to

• promise financial aid to veterans returning from the Second World War, promoting economic growth

• eliminate many earlier barriers to immigration, allowing postwar refugees to enter the country

• provide financial support to democratic nations in Western Europe to help restore a market economy

• restrict the power of labor unions in the United States to help protect the country from communist influence

Multiple Choice

excerpt from NSC 68, published in 1950:

“The Kremlin regards the United States as the only major threat to the conflict between idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin, which has come to a crisis with the polarization of power described in Section I, and the exclusive possession of atomic weapons by the two protagonists. The idea of freedom, moreover, is peculiarly and intolerably subversive of the idea of slavery. But the converse is not true. The implacable purpose of the slave state to eliminate the challenge of freedom has placed the two great powers at opposite poles. It is this fact which gives the present polarization of power the quality of crisis.”

What stance did the US take towards the USSR during the Cold War?

• The US decided to launch a direct invasion of the USSR to destroy communism once and for all.

• The US used political, diplomatic, and economic tools to try and contain the USSR.

• The US did nothing because we were shocked by the carnage of World War II and reverted to isolationism.

• The US sent money and technology directly to Soviet citizens to convince them communism was inferior.

Multiple Choice

Where was Korea divided?

• 18 parallel

• 34 parallel

• 38 parallel

• 28 parallel

Multiple Choice

George Kennan's policy of containment was based on

• an understanding with Britain regarding the post-World War II German government

• a belief that the Soviet Union would try to expand the reach of communism

• a desire to keep the Republicans from regaining the White House in the 1948 election

• a need to decrease government spending in an effort to halt inflation

Multiple Choice

________________________ is an economic system in which methods of production are owned privately by citizens. Supply and Demand controls markets, not the government.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Multiple Choice

_______________________ is an economic system in which methods of production are owned and controlled by the government.

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Dictatorship

Multiple Choice

A conflict fought by two sides who are supported by two other, more powerful enemies who are involved in a larger struggle.

• proxy war

• hegemonic war

• satellite offensive

• total war

Drag and Drop

was the U.S. led alliance of capitalist democracies during the Cold War.

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Warsaw Pact

Central Powers

Axis Powers

Multiple Choice

What were the results of the Korean War?

• The two sections of Korea reunited

• North Korea & South Korea remained divided

• The Soviet Union took control of both sections of Korea

• China set up a communist government

Multiple Choice

Which of the following countries was not part of NATO?

• France

• East Germany

• Austria

• United States

• Great Britain

Multiple Choice

All of the following events contributed to Cold War tensions EXCEPT

• the United States airlift of food to the citizens of Berlin

• massive economic support for western Europe through the Marshall Plan

• rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the isolationist Senate

• unified support of the Greek monarchy in 1947

• the establishment of the defensive North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of N.A.T.O?

• Countries joining together to end democracy

• Countries joining together to stop trade between the East and West

• Countries joining together to fend off attacks by other communist countries

• Countries joining together to create one kind of currency (S)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true of McCarthyism?

• It was a search for Communist infiltrators in the State Department

• It mirrored the First Red Scare of the 1920s.

• It resulted in the downfall of its namesake Senator.

• It prolonged the simultaneous war in Korea.

Multiple Choice

What organization was created by Congress to hunt for communist spies?

• Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• House Un-American Activites Commitee (HUAC)

Multiple Choice

“In the mass movement into suburban areas a new kind of community was produced, which

caricatured both the historic city and the archetypal suburban refuge: a multitude of uniform,

unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless

communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group,

witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless pre-fabricated foods, from

the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold,

manufactured in the central metropolis. Thus the ultimate effect of the suburban escape in our

time is, ironically, a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible. What has

happened to the suburban exodus in the United States now threatens, through the same

mechanical instrumentalities, to take place, at an equally accelerating rate, everywhere

else—unless the most vigorous countermeasures are taken…”

--Lewis Mumford. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1961. 486, 509-512.

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following views of the growth of the suburbs?

• The suburbs were safer and cleaner than older urban neighborhoods.

• The suburbs allowed individuals from the inner city to reinvent themselves without the constraints of ethnic urban neighborhoods.

• The suburbs facilitated the growth of the middle class and the development of a middle-

  class lifestyle.

• The suburbs promoted uniformity in thought and behavior.

Multiple Choice

“In the mass movement into suburban areas a new kind of community was produced, which

caricatured both the historic city and the archetypal suburban refuge: a multitude of uniform,

unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless

communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group,

witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless pre-fabricated foods, from

the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold,

manufactured in the central metropolis. Thus the ultimate effect of the suburban escape in our

time is, ironically, a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible. What has

happened to the suburban exodus in the United States now threatens, through the same

mechanical instrumentalities, to take place, at an equally accelerating rate, everywhere

else—unless the most vigorous countermeasures are taken…”

--Lewis Mumford. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1961. 486, 509-512.

Which of the following could best serve as evidence to support Mumford’s contentions in the

excerpt?

• the explosive growth of television and television sales

• the growth of organizations like Little League and the PTA

• Levittown’s refusal to sell homes to African Americans

• personalization of suburban homes through paint color and structural changes

Multiple Choice

The court case that ended segregation in public schools

• Brown v. Board

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Engel v. Vitale

• Tinker v. DesMoines

Multiple Choice

Television helped bring about economic growth in the 1950s through its:

• Financial programs

• Children’s programs

• Credit cards

• Advertisements

Multiple Choice

William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of the suburbs by

• Mass-producing houses

• Criticizing urban life

• Designing interstate highways   

• Providing low-interest mortgage loans

Multiple Choice

The post-war “baby boom” was strongly influenced by

• Very high employment rates

• Americans making more money than ever before

• General prosperity

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST characterizes the youth culture of the 1950s?

• More young people were choosing to work rather than attend college

• Radio programs became more popular amongst teenagers as a source of entertainment

• They had more leisure (free) time to dedicate to entertainment and fun

• Automobiles had little influence on the life of teens

Multiple Choice

The largest public works project during Eisenhower's administration presidency was

• space program

• building of Grand Coulee Dam

• offshore oil drilling

• construction of the interstate highway

Multiple Choice

What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society?

• created opposition to US involvement in Latin American affairs

• Encouraged the widespread fear of Communism

• strengthened the US Army

• encouraged the Americans to stand up for their civil rights

Multiple Choice

What group funded the court challenges to segregation in the 1950s?

• ACLU

• NAACP

• KKK

• Congress

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal

• It allowed blacks to run for public office

• It ended segregation in schools

• It made poll taxes illegal

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote

• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal

• It gave all blacks the right to vote

Multiple Choice

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital

• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote

• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march

• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest

• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes

• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person

• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

Poll

In which Key Concept(s) have you improved you knowledge?

• Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. (COLD WAR)

• Key Concept 8.2: New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses. (CIVIL RIGHTS)

• Key Concept 8.3: Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching

  consequences for American society, politics, and culture. (AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER

Audio Response

Record a short explanation of what you learned. Use the Key Concepts to help you. Focus on what you learned NOT what you did.

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