P3 CW in Americas Truman

This program sent $13 billion in US aid to sixteen countries in Europe.

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• NATO

• Grand Alliance

Truman was a member of the _________ party. McCarthy was a member of the _________ party.

• Democratic

  Democratic

• Democratic

  Republican

• Republican

  Democratic

• Republican

  Republican

US economic aid was offered to all European states including the USSR; however the US set up strings that required recipients practice capitalistic policies.

• True

• False

A coup in what state convinced the US Congress to pass the Marshall Plan.

• Poland

• Czechoslovakia

• East Germany

• USSR

What kind of historian would argue that Stalin was the aggressor, especially in eastern Europe post WWII?

• Orthodox like Schlesinger or Kennan

• Revisionist like Willams

• Post-Revisionist like McCauley

What kind of historian would argue that the USA the aggressor, especially in its use of economic dominance of Europe?

• Orthodox like Schlesinger or Kennan

• Revisionist like Willams

• Post-Revisionist like McCauley

What kind of historian would argue that the end of the Grand Alliance was inevitable-that neither the USA nor the USSR really understood each other's position?

• Orthodox like Schlesinger or Kennan

• Revisionist like Willams

• Post-Revisionist like McCauley

McCarthy and his unwillingness to compromise on Communism was one cause of the US entering the Korean War.

• True

• False

McCarthy, his unwillingness to compromise on Communism, and his criticism of anyone who was willing to compromise was one reason that after the death of Stalin in 1953, the US would not accept detente (lessening of tensions) with the USSR.

• True

• False

Where did the US send troops as part of the Truman Doctrine to stop the spread of Communism?

• Greece and Turkey

• Berlin/Germany

• throughout Europe

• Italy