Topic 7 Test

What is NATO?

• A military alliance formed to counter

  Soviet aggression.

• quick resolution of international

  disputes.

• promotion of world peace by all member

  nations.

• acceptance of other nations by

  unanimous agreement.

What is the Marshall Plan?

• To provide foreign aid to Western Europe

• To provide financial aid to the Soviets

• To be able to sign treaties with any

  country

• To provide to all American citizens

In this speech, Truman was advocating

• the Berlin airlift.

• the Marshall Plan.

• the Truman Doctrine.

• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

This statement was made by

• George Marshall.

• Joseph McCarthy.

• Richard Nixon.

• Margaret Chase Smith.

The 38th parallel was the basis of

• a conflict over shipping routes between

  Japan and North Korea.

• a new economic development zone

  related to the Marshall Plan.

• diplomatic talks that led to peace

  between North and South Korea.

• a cease-fire in the conflict between North

  and South Korea.

According to the information in the table, what did Alger Hiss and

Julius Rosenberg have in common?

• They were both investigated by the FBI.

• They have nothing in common.

• They were both implicated by known

  Communists.

• They were both sentenced to lengthy

  prison terms.

Shelters such as this represented American concern about

• the potential threat of domestic

  terrorism in the 1950s.

• the increasing number of natural

  disasters in the 1950s.

• a potential nuclear attack during the Cold

  War.

• a successful launch of a Soviet satellite

  into space.

The rise in the Sunbelt’s political power was primarily due to a

concurrent rise in

• defense industry spending.

• the national highway system.

• suburban housing developments.

• population migration.

The Hungarian revolt of 1956 was encouraged partly by

• John Foster Dulles's policy of

  brinkmanship.

• the hope that Khrushchev would be less

  repressive than Stalin.

• the end of the Cold War.

• the Soviets leaving Hungary.

The first significant postwar target of the House Un-American

Activities Committee (HUAC) was the film industry probably

because

• most people in Hollywood were

  communist.

• The U.S.S.R. was sending agents to work

  in Hollywood.

• some feared that movies might influence

  people's politics.

• wanted more films showing American

  values