USH 11 Chapter 13 Review: The Cold War Begins

By 1945, what did President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers think was the key to keeping the world at peace?

• economic growth

• military strength

• a strong United Nations

• a willingness to compromise

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and

• Italy.

• Switzerland.

• Canada.

• France.

Among the major causes of the Cold War were arguments between the United States and the Soviet Union over reparations and

• control of Japan.

• the use of the atomic bomb.

• economic policy in Germany.

• immigration to the United States.

The presence of the Soviet army in Europe at the end of WWII ensured that _____________ would be established in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

• a system of free elections

• pro-Soviet Communist governments

• a system of reparations

• heavily industrialized economies

When the United States, Britain, and France merged their zones of Germany in 1948, the Soviet Union responded by

• threatening to declare war.

• trying to undermine Germany's economy.

• blockading West Berlin.

• organizing a military alliance.

President Harry Truman saw the Communist invasion of South Korea as a test of the _____________ and ordered U.S. naval and air power into action.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• containment policy

• NATO alliance

After the Korean War began, the United State embarked on a major

• military buildup.

• treaty negotiation.

• transmitted military secrets to the Soviet Union.

• expansion of foreign aid.

President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 when MacArthur

• failed to win the Korean War.

• refused to carry out an invasion of China.

• transmitted military secrets to the Soviet Union.

• publicly criticized the president's policy of limited war.

When did President Harry Truman establish in early 1947 to screen all federal employees?

• HUAC

• Project Verona

• the loyalty review program

• the subcommittee on investigations

What impact did the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings have on Hollywood?

• Actors were required to swear that they were not Communists.

• Many actors were denied passports and could not travel abroad.

• Ronald Reagan was accused of being a Communist sympathizer.

• Producers blacklisted anyone who was believed to be a Communist.