WorksheetsSS Part 1 (2020-2021)
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
What was the MOST important factor that led to the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations after World War II?
Disagreement over how Germany's government should be reconstructed after the war
They had two opposing and conflicting political ideologies
Leaders from both nations did not communicate effectively
Soviet encroachment on American territories
American encroachment on Soviet territories
Which is a reason why the United States emerged ain better shape than any other nation after World War II?
The wartime economy reduced unemployment, boosted wages, and provided postwar prosperity
The United States lost fewer soldiers than other nations involved in World War II
The United States experienced no serious attack on its home soil except for the bombing of Pearl Harbor
The allied nations provided the United States with additional colonial territories
The nation's industrial infrastructure remained unscathed
Which of the following was the Soviet Union's MOST pressing concern after World War II?
to recover Soviet civilians that were trapped in occupied territories
to secure the Soviet border after American and British forces invaded the nearby Western European front
to rebuild the economy because wartime casualties left the nation with a dwindling workforce
to calm political unrest that threatened Stalin's leadership
to obtain new colonial territories that belonged to Germany
Stalin consented to joining the UN Security Council because
the veto power offered to all five permanent members meant he could easily neutralize unfavorable actions
the other allied nations who had joined threatened his postwar plan to extract reparations from Germany
The UN Security Council offered him equal representation and voting power on resolutions
The United States threatened to commence a nuclear attack if Stalin declined the invitation
The UN Security Council had as much power as the UN General Assembly
The U.S. entered war with which country in 1950?
Vietnam
Japan
Korea
China
Cambodia
Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the Eastern bloc?
Yugoslavia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
Political Containment, or the Truman Doctrine, pledged that the United States would do all of the following EXCEPT
intervene in the Middle East where civil wars threatened to bring communist insurgencies into power
shift the focus of U.S. foreign policy to the Western Hemisphere
commit the United Stated to a limited activist foreign policy that focused on Europe
resolve the United States' ideological struggle with the Soviet Union
defend free people who were threatened by local communist insurgents backed by the Soviet Union
As the Cold War persisted into the 1950's, which new leaders took over the United States and the USSR?
Roosevelt and Stalin
Truman and Stalin
Truman and Lenin
Nixon and Malenkov
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
The Korean War re-affirmed the permanent partition of Korea at the ______ parallel.
twenty-eighth
fifteenth
fifty-third
twelfth
thirty-eight
The nuclear arms race produced all of the following EXCEPT
a central paradox where to launch a nuclear attack was to invite an immediate and devastating counterattack
a policy of massive retaliation where the United States pledged to respond to communist aggression
a strategy known as mutually assured destruction to inflict the maximum number of casualties on the enemy as a way of rendering any rational application of nuclear war moot
a series of new military technologies like the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), B-52 bomber, and hydrogen bomb
a decrease in military spending and improved relations between the United States and Soviet Union
After World War II, the United States promoted and believed in ______ whereas the Soviet Union ascribed to _____.
Marxist-Leninist communism; free-market capitalism
totalitarianism; democracy
free-market capitalism; Marxist-Leninist communism
colonial expansion; decolonization
the axis; the allies
Which of the following was NOT one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"?
freedom from want
freedom of worship
freedom of speech
freedom from fear
freedom from totalitarianism
What was George F. Keenan's policy of containment designed to do?
prevent Soviet power from spreading through a series of political , ideological, economic, and military measures
increase the number of countries who were considered allies to the United States.
decrease in colonization in Africa and Asia
rebuild damages European infrastructure after World War II
limit the United States government's military spending
The U.S. Strategy of ideological containment resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
leaflets and radio programs to influence public opinion
the United States Information and Education Exchange Act, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act
the development of the United Stated Information Agency (USIA)
Truman's "campaign of truth"
television programs to counter Soviet propaganda
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-communist crusade gained support because
it was built on pre-existing fears that the Soviet Union was working to destroy the United States from within
it correctly identifies communists or communist sympathizers in the U.S government
it used subtle tactics to root out communist infiltrators int he Roosevelt and Truman administrations
it avoided media attention
it proved that communist influence led directly to the failure of American policy in China
The European Recovery Program was more commonly known as which of the following?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Charter of the United Nations
Eisenhower Doctrine
Five-Year Plan
