Chapter 27 Review

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

• A. Franklin Roosevelt was too ill to attend.
• B. Joseph Stalin withdrew a promise to enter the Pacific war.
• C. Winston Churchill left early in a dispute with Stalin.
• D. it was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War.
• E. Joseph Stalin refused to agree to Roosevelt and Churchill’s plans for the United Nations.

In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for

• A. each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others.
• B. a General Assembly in which select nations would have voting rights.
• C. the president of the UN to be selected from one of the five major powers.
• D. membership to be limited to one hundred nations.
• E. Germany and Japan to be added to the Security Council after 25 years.

At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on

• A. the government of Poland.
• B. the unification of Germany.
• C. war reparations to the Soviet Union.
• D. both the government of Poland and the unification of Germany.
• E. All these answers are correct.

By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

• A. grown antagonistic toward the United States.
• B. designs on taking over conquered Japan.
• C. little popular support.
• D. drifted toward communism.
• E. willingly ceded authority to Mao Zedong.

In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

• A. asserted it was the obligation of the United States to support free peoples around the world.
• B. assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority.
• C. was initially invoked to provide aid to Greece and Turkey.
• D. both asserted it was the obligation of the United States to support free peoples around the world, and assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority.
• E. All these answers are correct.

The National Security Act of 1947

• A. created the National Security Council.
• B. created the Central Intelligence Agency.
• C. created the Department of Defense.
• D. combined the functions previously performed separately by the War and Navy Departments.
• E. All these answers are correct.

In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

• A. sending American paratroopers into West Berlin.
• B. airlifting supplies to West Berlin.
• C. threatening war with the Soviet Union.
• D. encouraging the United Nations to pass economic sanctions.
• E. creating a blockade of East Berlin.

During 1946-1947, the American economy

• A. was plagued by serious inflation.
• B. experienced few labor strikes.
• C. fell back to depression conditions.
• D. witnessed a significant tax increase.
• E. confronted a wave of unexpected bank failures.

President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal called for

• A. a retraction of many New Deal programs.
• B. an end to public housing.
• C. a freeze on the minimum wage to combat inflation.
• D. the creation of national health insurance.
• E. an end to the Fair Employment Practices Act and other wartime measures.

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

• A. permitted the “union shop.”
• B. expanded the Wagner Act.
• C. permitted the “closed shop.”
• D. prohibited states from passing “right-to-work” laws.
• E. was supported by President Truman.