CSmith U.S. Unit 13: Cold War Review

. . . The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved. The United States has received from the Greek Government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance to support their fight against communism. The United States must supply that assistance. We have already extended to Greece certain types of relief and economic aid but these are inadequate. There is no other country to which democratic Greece can turn. No other nation is willing and able to provide the necessary support for a democratic Greek government. . . .

The speech above outlined what new U.S. foreign policy?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Treaty of Versailles

• Truman Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

. . . The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved. The United States has received from the Greek Government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance to support their fight against communism. The United States must supply that assistance. We have already extended to Greece certain types of relief and economic aid but these are inadequate. There is no other country to which democratic Greece can turn. No other nation is willing and able to provide the necessary support for a democratic Greek government. . . .

Future U.S. actions according to this new foreign policy would be done based on what concept?

• Containment

• Isolationism

• Neutrality

• Imperialism

The truth of the matter is that Europe’s requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products—principally from America—are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character. It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist …

Source: George C. Marshall

The speech above outlines what U.S. Cold War action?

• The Manhattan Project

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Marshall Plan

• Apollo Program

The cartoon depicted could be most closely associated with what Cold War event?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iran-Contra Affair

• 1980 Olympics

• Berlin Airlift

This is glaringly true in the State Department . . .While I cannot take time to name all the men in our very own government’s State Department who have been named as active members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State [Dean Acheson] as being members of the Communist Party. However, as I stand here today, all of these traitors are still working and shaping policy in that State Department….We are dealing with a far more sinister type of activity because it permits the enemy to guide and shape our policy. . . .

Source: Senator McCarthy (1950)

What is the speaker's purpose in the speech above?

• To outline containment policy

• To explain U.S. actions in Vietnam

• To deny allegations of wrongdoing in political office

• To stir up anti-communist support and fear

This is glaringly true in the State Department . . .While I cannot take time to name all the men in our very own government’s State Department who have been named as active members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State [Dean Acheson] as being members of the Communist Party. However, as I stand here today, all of these traitors are still working and shaping policy in that State Department….We are dealing with a far more sinister type of activity because it permits the enemy to guide and shape our policy. . . .

Source: Senator McCarthy (1950)

Which of the following is most closely associated with the excerpted speech above?

• Development of the H-Bomb

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• 2nd Red Scare

How did the event shown in the map impact U.S. politics?

• More Americans joined the American Communist Party

• Americans voted for a stronger Eisenhower to end the conflict

• The U.S. withdrew from the United Nations

• The U.S. declined to ratify the Treaty of Versailles

What foreign policy was cited by President Kennedy in his actions in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Isolationism

• Treaty of Versailles

• Roosevelt Corollary

What was the long-term effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Both sides de-escalated the arms race

• The Space Race began

• World War III began in South America

• China became an ally of the Soviet Union

What is the artist's point of view in the cartoon?

• The U.S. is getting out of Vietnam too quickly

• Korea and Vietnam were necessary police actions

• The U.S. Congress should cancel the draft for Vietnam

• Vietnam is pulling the U.S. into Asian affairs