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WorksheetsSocial Science Section 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 39mins
The belief the the United States possessed a unique historical duty to spread its values and institutions to other nations around the world is...
(a)
Approximately what percentage of mobilized Soviet men and women were killed, wounded, or captured in World War II?
65%
84%
79%
54%
44%
What were the German armed forces called?
(a)
Who was in the Yalta Conference in 1945?
Winston Churchill
Harry S. Truman
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
George F. Kennan
Which world leader died just before the Potsdam Conference?
(a)
Nations under the control of the Soviet Union were called what two terms?
Eastern Russia and Soviet Satellites
Union Bloc and Eastern Bloc
Soviet Europe and Soviet Satellites
Soviet Provinces and Eastern Bloc
Soviet Satellites and Eastern Bloc
A security pact that committed the United States to defend the member states in Western Europe form Soviet aggression is know as...
(a)
What was the broad-based strategy of the United States to counter Soviet influence economically, militarily, politically, and culturally?
the Cominform Doctrine
the Yalta Accord
The policies of containment
the Mutually Assured Destruction Plan
the Potsdam Agreement
Who were the committee of equals that would collectively formulate Soviet policy?
Nikita Khrushchev
Vyacheslav Molotov
Lavrenti Beria
Nikolai Bulganin
Georgi Malenkov
Which strategy did Robert S. McNamara favor that would call on the U.S. to adopt a nuclear posture calculated to inflict maximum number of casualties on the enemy as a way of rendering any rational application of nuclear war moot?
(a)
The conference held in July of 1945 in a former Prussian palace in a rubble-strewn suburb of Berlin was known as the...
(a)
The only nation ever to use atomic weapons against another, the United States, dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and...
(a)
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declared what to be the official policy of the United States?
(a)
The hydrogen bomb produced a ten megaton explosion, more than 450 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on...
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Was the Baruch Plan a sincere attempt to save mankind from destruction?
True
False
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) oversaw the development of nuclear weapons in peacetime.
True
False
The leader of the Nationalist in China during their civil war was Mao Zedong
True
False
After a pause in hostilities to resist the Japanese during WWII, civil war returned to China in 1946.
True
False
Hitler committed suicide after Soviet troops entered Berlin.
True
False
The Cold War began 1940.
True
False
