AH2 Final Exam Review- Part 4

Issuing the Truman Doctrine, defending South Korea, and sending military advisors to Vietnam were actions taken by the United States to

• gain additional overseas colonies.

• encourage membership in the United Nations.

• promote American business in Asia.

• limit the spread of communism.

Which best describes the Cold War?

• This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years.

• Any struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil.

• A lessening of tensions between U.S. and Soviet Union begun to insure a lasting peace between superpowers.

• A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply.

“An attack on one shall be considered an attack on all.”

This statement summarizes the foreign policy known a

• appeasement.

• non-alignment.

• colonialism.

• collective security.

"Many foreign peoples, in Europe at least, are . . . frightened by experiences of the past and are less interested in . . . freedom than in security . They are seeking guidance rather than responsibilities. We should be better able than the Russians to give them this. And unless we do, the Russians certainly will."

This advice to President Harry Truman helped influence Truman’s decision to

• develop the Marshall Plan.

• drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• deport any person suspected of being a communist.

• end segregation in the Armed Forces.

Which is a valid conclusion based on United States involvement in the Korean War?

• United Nations economic sanctions are more effective than military action.

• The American people will support United States participation in any war, whether declared or undeclared

• The policy of containment was applied in Asia as well as in Europe

• United States cooperation with a wartime ally ends when the war ends.

The position taken by Truman which became known as the Truman Doctrine was a

• proposal for peaceful use of atomic energy.

• policy for extending economic and military aid to those countries threatened by communism.

• policy of aiding peace-loving peoples of underdeveloped nations.

• policy to provide technical assistance to countries ravaged by WWII.

Unlike the failed League of Nations, the new United Nations

• denied the power of veto to any party in an international dispute.

• established no forum for the smaller nations beside the larger powers.

• was established in a spirit of cooperation before the war’s actual end.

• assumed that there would eventually be conflict among the great powers.

What ultimately happened to the “Hollywood Ten” who refused to answer questions put to them by the House Un-American Activities Committee?

• they spent time in jail and were blacklisted

• they were fined by the courts

• they were forced into exile.

• they became double agents against the communists

When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain and France access to West Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by

• asked the United Nations to intervene.

• denying the Soviets access to West Germany.

• calling up reserves in anticipation of war.

• organizing an airlift of supplies to West Berlin.

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic...”

According to Churchill, what had descended upon Europe?

• poverty

• a cold war

• fascism

• an iron curtain