Deck 36: The Cold War Begins,1945-1952

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard M.Nixon

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Spock

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Wallace

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sunbelt

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George F.Kennan

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Reinhold Niebuhr

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Frostbelt

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dean Acheson

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Joseph McCarthy

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Harry S.Truman

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J.Robert Oppenheimer

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Douglas MacArthur

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Dewey

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Taft-Hartley Act

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cold War

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Yalta Conference

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Berlin airlift

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fair Deal

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
H-Bomb

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Truman Doctrine

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United Nations

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"containment doctrine"

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Progressive party

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
iron curtain

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McCarran Act

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Point Four

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dixiecrats

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
baby boom

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
U.N.Security Council

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
House Committee on Un-American Activities

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
NSC-68

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nuremberg trials

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Security Act

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marshall Plan

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
UNESCO

Question 41

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Albania

Question 42

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Lithuania

Question 43

Many Americans feared that the end of World War II would bring

A) heightened racial tensions.
B) a return of the Great Depression.
C) moral and religious decline.
D) continued fascist resistance in Germany.
E) a new war with the Soviet Union.

Question 44

The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by

A) outlawing strikes by public employees.
B) creating a serious inflationary spiral.
C) banning labor's political action committees.
D) outlawing closed (all-union) shops.
E) forbidding union organizers to enter workplaces.

Question 45

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Estonia

Question 46

The passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)was partly motivated by

A) fear of postwar veterans' protests.
B) memories of the mistreatment of the veterans' Bonus Army in the 1930s.
C) fear that the labor markets could not absorb millions of discharged veterans.
D) a desire to expand the social diversity of American colleges and universities.
E) the need of American business for a more highly educated workforce.

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
thirty-eighth parallel

Question 48

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ South Sakhalin Island

Question 49

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ China

Question 50

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Mongolia

Question 51

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Poland

Question 52

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Bulgaria

Question 53

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Kuril Islands

Question 54

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Hungary

Question 55

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Romania

Question 56

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Yugoslavia

Question 57

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Question 58

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Latvia

Question 59

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ North Korea

Question 60

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Czechoslovakia

Question 61

Which of the following did not contribute to the rapid rise of suburbia in post-World War II America?

A) The baby boom
B) Government mortgage guarantees
C) New federally funded highways
D) White flight
E) Urban environmental problems

Question 62

All of the following encouraged many post-1945 Americans to move to the suburbs except

A) development of fuel-efficient automobiles.
B) home-loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Authority and the Veterans' Administration.
C) government-built highways.
D) tax deductions for interest payments on home mortgages.
E) white flight from racial change.

Question 63

Much of the Sunbelt's new prosperity was based on its

A) tremendous influx of money from the federal government.
B) policy of high state taxes.
C) regulated economic growth.
D) cooperative effort rather than unbridled individualism.
E) attention to environmental issues.

Question 64

The post-World War II prosperity in the United States was most beneficial to

A) African Americans.
B) labor unions.
C) women.
D) Hispanics.
E) farmers.

Question 65

The dramatically reduced number of American farms and farmers in the postwar era was accompanied by

A) growing poverty in rural America.
B) increasing shortages of American-grown food and fiber.
C) radical protests by farmers and farm laborers.
D) a romantic "back to the land" movement among city dwellers.
E) spectacular gains in American agricultural productivity and food growing.

Question 66

One sign of the stress that the widespread post-World War II geographic mobility placed on American families was the

A) redistribution of income.
B) popularity of advice books on child-rearing.
C) increasing reliance on television as a baby sitter.
D) increased number of long-distance telephone calls.
E) dramatic rise in divorces.

Question 67

The long economic boom from World War II to about 1970 was especially fueled by

A) low energy costs.
B) reduced military expenditures.
C) low inflation.
D) low taxes.
E) a more highly educated work force.

Question 68

By 1960,the proportion of Americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately

A) three out of four (75 percent).
B) one out of four (25 percent).
C) half (50 percent).
D) one out of ten (10 percent).
E) four out of ten (40 percent).

Question 69

Population distribution after World War II followed a pattern of

A) movement into the Northeast and out of the South.
B) mass migration of blacks from the West to the Midwest.
C) movement from the Southwest to Appalachia.
D) movement out of the cities and into small towns.
E) an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and whites in major metropolitan areas.

Question 70

The continued growth of the suburbs led to

A) increased school integration.
B) better entertainment opportunities in the cities.
C) an increase in urban poverty.
D) a decrease in urban crime.
E) more efficient transportation.

Question 71

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the GI Bill?

A) It included provisions to help veterans gain an education.
B) Benefits included $16 million in loans for veterans to buy farms, homes or businesses.
C) The GI Bill nurtured the nation's economic expansion in the postwar era.
D) Benefits were only available in the first three months after leaving the military.
E) Millions of veterans took advantage of the GI Bill programs.

Question 72

Since 1945,population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the

A) Northeast.
B) Midwest.
C) Sunbelt.
D) Frostbelt.
E) Pacific Northwest.

Question 73

One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was

A) the continued exclusion of most women from the workplace.
B) the growing split between urban and rural America.
C) the growing concentration of wealth at the top of society.
D) a vast expansion of the homeowning middle class.
E) the growth of blue-collar employment.

Question 74

The prosperity of the postwar decades paved the way for all of the following social transformations except

A) the civil rights movement.
B) new welfare programs like Medicare.
C) America's international leadership.
D) the migration of people to the North.
E) increased opportunity to move up economically.

Question 75

"Planned obsolescence" was a marketing tool invented in the postwar era that

A) pushed families to buy a second car, rather than owning just one.
B) encouraged manufacturers to make products that would break or wear out every two years.
C) meant changing the design of goods frequently enough so that customers would replace older versions with newer ones.
D) was the reason more and more mothers entered or re-entered the workforce.
E) barraged consumers with repetitive advertising campaigns designed to make them purchase more.

Question 76

The refusal of the Federal Housing Authority to grant home loans to blacks contributed to

A) the growth of savings and loan institutions exclusively for blacks.
B) driving many blacks into public housing.
C) the development of exclusively black suburbs.
D) a decline in black migration to the cities.
E) All of these

Question 77

The majority of the new jobs created in the postwar era went to

A) men.
B) women.
C) African Americans.
D) Hispanics.
E) New immigrants.

Question 78

The growth of organized labor in the post-World War II era was slowed by all of the following except the

A) Taft-Hartley Act.
B) rapidly growing number of service-sector workers.
C) failure of Operation Dixie.
D) reduced number of women in the work force.
E) growing number of part-time workers.

Question 79

Much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on the underpinnings of

A) foreign aid.
B) a rising stock market.
C) foreign trade.
D) a thriving automobile industry.
E) colossal military budgets.

Question 80

In an effort to forestall an economic downturn,the Truman administration did all of the following except

A) create the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
B) sell war factories and other government installations to private businesses at very low prices.
C) pass the Employment Act, which made it government policy to promote maximum employment.
D) pass the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights.
E) continue wartime wage and price controls.