chapter 27

In 1945, Joseph Stalin’s vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

• Charles de Gaulle

• Winston Churchill

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Mao Zedong

• Harry Truman

In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it

• initially rejected American membership.

• quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority.

• refused to vote on the charter for nearly a year.

• made major changes to its charter.

• put the question to a national referendum.

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

• the government of Poland

• the unification of Germany

• war reparations to the Soviet Union

• both the government of Poland and the unification of Germany

• All these answers are correct.

All the following statements regarding the "zones of occupation" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that:

• there were a total of four zones, each controlled by a different nation

• the zones were to be determined by the position of troops at the end of the war

• all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control

• at an unspecified date, Germany would be reunited

• Roosevelt preferred a reconstructed and reunited Germany

President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union:

• following the end of the war in the Pacific

• once the United States had successfully used the atomic bomb

• at the Potsdam Conference

• after his first few days in office

• after it became clear Stalin was supporting communist forces in China

In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

• China

• Poland

• Berlin

• Hungary

• Yugoslavia

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

• grown antagonistic toward the United States.

• designs on taking over conquered Japan.

• little popular support and Truman worried about the communist forces of Mao Zedong taking over.

• drifted toward communism.

• willingly ceded authority to Mao Zedong.

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia led

• to U.S. military intervention in China to fight communist advances there.

• President Harry Truman to place restrictions on industrial development in Japan.

• President Truman to threaten communists in China with atomic bombs.

• the United States to provide financial support to Mao Zedong for reasons of stability.

• the Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan.

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

• the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

• first applied in Poland.

• an extension of the Atlantic Charter.

• both the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years, and an extension of the Atlantic Charter.

• None of these answers is correct.

In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

• asserted it was the obligation of the United States to support free peoples around the world.

• assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority.

• was initially invoked to provide aid to Greece and Turkey.

• 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.

• All these answers are correct.