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Social Science Section 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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)  

2.

Approximately what percentage of mobilized Soviet men and women were killed, wounded, or captured in World War II?

a)

65%

b)

84%

c)

79%

d)

54%

e)

44%

3.

What were the German armed forces called?

(a)  

4.

Who was in the Yalta Conference in 1945?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Harry S. Truman

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

e)

George F. Kennan

5.

Which world leader died just before the Potsdam Conference?

(a)  

6.

Nations under the control of the Soviet Union were called what two terms?

a)

Eastern Russia and Soviet Satellites

b)

Union Bloc and Eastern Bloc

c)

Soviet Europe and Soviet Satellites

d)

Soviet Provinces and Eastern Bloc

e)

Soviet Satellites and Eastern Bloc

7.

A security pact that committed the United States to defend the member states in Western Europe form Soviet aggression is know as...

(a)  

8.

What was the broad-based strategy of the United States to counter Soviet influence economically, militarily, politically, and culturally?

a)

the Cominform Doctrine

b)

the Yalta Accord

c)

The policies of containment

d)

the Mutually Assured Destruction Plan

e)

the Potsdam Agreement

9.

Who were the committee of equals that would collectively formulate Soviet policy?

a)

Nikita Khrushchev

b)

Vyacheslav Molotov

c)

Lavrenti Beria

d)

Nikolai Bulganin

e)

Georgi Malenkov

10.

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)  

11.

The conference held in July of 1945 in a former Prussian palace in a rubble-strewn suburb of Berlin was known as the...

(a)  

12.

The only nation ever to use atomic weapons against another, the United States, dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and...

(a)  

13.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declared what to be the official policy of the United States?

(a)  

14.

The hydrogen bomb produced a ten megaton explosion, more than 450 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on...

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima

15.

Was the Baruch Plan a sincere attempt to save mankind from destruction?

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) oversaw the development of nuclear weapons in peacetime.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The leader of the Nationalist in China during their civil war was Mao Zedong

a)

True

b)

False

18.

After a pause in hostilities to resist the Japanese during WWII, civil war returned to China in 1946.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Hitler committed suicide after Soviet troops entered Berlin.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The Cold War began 1940.

a)

True

b)

False