OP6 Cold War EOC Review

·         The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created

·         Nation Defense Education Act passed

·         Increased federal money was provided to improve schools, especially in math and science

·         More money was appropriated by Congress for research and development

Which event sparked these changes? (SS.912.A.6.8)

• The Soviet Union launched its satellite, Sputnik.

• Mao Zedong led a successful Communist revolution in China

• North Korea crossed the 38th parallel to invade South Korea

• Senator Joseph McCarthy announced the discovery of “Reds” in the State Department

 

Most opponents of the Senate hearings led by Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s argued that these investigations (SS.912.A.6.8)

• weakened the armed forces of the nation

• violated the constitutional rights of many people

• undermined the powers of the president

• encouraged the spread of communism

Which political trend characterized the era of McCarthyism? (SS.912.A.6.8)

• the effort to end the welfare system and remove regulations on US business

• the willingness to provide political asylum to persecuted people worldwide

• the effort to transform the United States into a society based on civil equality

• the use of false accusation of communism as a weapon against political opponents

 

What international organization was created immediately after the Second World War to promote world peace and cooperation among nations? (SS.912.A.6.9)

• the Atlantic Charter

• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• the United Nations

• the League of Nations

 

How did the formation of the United Nations resemble the formation of the League of Nations? (SS.912.A.6.9)

• it was created to prevent the spread of communism

• it was set up to promote international efforts to stop war

• it was intended to prevent another global Great Depression

• it was boycotted by both the United States and the Soviet Union

According to this excerpt, for what was President Truman arguing? (SS.912.A.6.10)

 

Truman Doctrine I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted (conquest) by armed minorities or by outside pressures.  President Harry Truman, 1947

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  the United States must keep current alliances with foreign nations

• the United States must help protect independent nations from communist aggression

• the United States must support rebels fighting for freedom in foreign nations

• the United States must avoid establishing alliances with foreign nations

 

A goal of the Marshall Plan (1948) was to (SS.912.A.6.10)

• rebuild Japan after World War II

• provide military aid to the Warsaw Pact

• establish a Pan-American military alliance system

• provide economic aid to European nations threatened by communism

The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were all part of the foreign policy of (SS.912.A.6.10)

• Isolationism

• Détente

• Colonialism

• Containment

Which foreign policy decision by President Harry Truman is an example of the policy of containment? (SS.912.A.6.10)

• relieving General MacArthur of his Korean command

• recognizing the new nation of Israel

• supporting the trials of war criminals in Germany and Japan

• providing military aid to Greece and Turkey

 

How did many US families respond to the threat of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union as the Cold War intensified? (SS.912.A.6.11)

• they moved from US cities to the Canadian wilderness

• they constructed bomb shelters in their backyards

• they urged the US president to improve relations with the Soviet Union

• they organized trips to Moscow to meet with Soviet leaders