APUSH (Henretta 8th) Ch. 25 reading quiz

Stalin was convinced that Soviet security rested upon creating a buffer of friendly neighboring states, and occupying most of Eastern Europe, mainly because

• he needed a buffer between his country and China.

• he wanted access to natural resources that these countries possessed and his own country lacked.

• those neighbors disapproved of communism and were historic enemies of the Russian people.

• he wanted to make it impossible for Germany to ever invade Russia again, as it had done in WWI and WWII.

• the other Allies were talking about the possibility of forming NATO, and his country would not meet the criteria.

Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to

• rollback communism to it’s pre-World War II boundaries.

• refrain from polarizing the world into pro-Soviet and pro-American camps.

• work to liberate the captive nations of Eastern Europe.

• maintain prosperity in America after World War II.

• stop the spread of communism by supporting those who were resisting communism

The Marshall Plan proposed

• the division of Germany.

• a massive military buildup in Europe.

• the rearming of Germany.

• financing the economic reconstruction of Western Europe.

• a series of Western military alliances.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization stipulated that

• there was no peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union.

• an attack on one or more treaty partners would be considered an attack against them all.

• he destruction of the Warsaw Pact was the organization's primary goal

• the Soviet Union was an evil empire

• Communism was like a game of dominoes.

NSC-68 was a classified paper that

• advocated a massive military buildup by the United States

• stated the leaders of North Korea were bent on world domination.

• spoke out against the development of hydrogen bombs

• criticized Senator McCarthy for trying to expose Communists on American soil.

The claims Joseph McCarthy made heightened debates over which of the following issues?

• Policies and methods to root out possible communists within the United States

• The expansion of the United States nuclear arsenal

• The emergence of a military-industrial complex in the United States

• United States intervention in the Korean War

The principal reason for the formation of the Dixiecrat party in 1948 was the opposition of dissident Democrats to President Truman's

• establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency

• proposal for civil rights legislation

• call for an investigation of the loyalty of all federal employees

• removal of General MacArthur from his military command

• support for the Taft-Hartley Act

Which post-World War II governmental action dramatically curbed the power of labor unions?

• the passage of the G.I. Bill

• Truman's "Fair Deal" proposals

• the Federal Loyalty Oath Program

• the construction of interstate highways

• the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act

All of the following were crises during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency EXCEPT

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

• French loss of control of Vietnam

• Iranian seizure of British oil properties

• Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal

The Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

• the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power in the Soviet Union.

• an ambitious program of military expansion by the Soviet Union.

• a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.

• U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.

• withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey.