Deck 9: The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1945-1953

Question 1

The planned community on Long island in New York was called?

A) Howard Heights
B) Harrison
C) Levittown
D) Bronxville
E) Point Judith

Answer 1

Levittown

Question 2

Who was the leader of the Taiwanese?

A) Mao Zhetung.
B) Peng Lan Wen
C) Ho Chi Minh
D) Huang Bai
E) Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 2

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 3

Which country was the first to recognize Israel as a country in 1948?

A) England
B) United States
C) Spain
D) Germany
E) France

Answer 3

United States

Question 4

Which eastern European country declined to join the Warsaw Pact?

A) Yugoslavia
B) Hungary
C) Poland
D) Romania
E) Czechoslovakia

Question 5

What position in the Truman Administration did General Marshall hold?

A) Attorney General
B) Ambassador to England
C) UN Ambassador
D) Secretary of State
E) Secretary of Defense

Question 6

Who replaced Churchill as the English prime minister?

A) Blazer
B) Foster
C) Thatcher
D) Attlee
E) Chamberlain

Question 7

Congress created the____________ to gather information about potential threats to the nation.

A) Department of Justice
B) Federal Bureau of Investigation
C) Central Intelligence Agency
D) Attorney general's Office
E) Homeland Security Agency

Question 8

The British Balfour Declaration was concerned with what?

A) Scottish independence
B) Creation of Israel
C) German reparations
D) Ireland's independence
E) Immigrants to Australia

Question 9

The Congressional Act that banned "closed shops' for workers was called?

A) Thurmond-Wallace
B) Taft-Hartley
C) Kennedy-Watson
D) Wallace-Henry
E) Truman-Garrison

Question 10

Who sent the "Long Telegram' which described how the Soviets desired to expand communism around the world?

A) MacArthur
B) Roosevelt
C) Keenan
D) Churchill
E) Montgomery

Question 11

The takeover of which country in 1948 by the Soviets convinced the US that the Marshall Plan was necessary?

A) Poland
B) Hungary
C) Italy
D) Greece
E) Austria

Question 12

Who was the third world leader that joined Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta in February of 1945?

A) Mussolini
B) Stalin
C) Stevenson
D) Mao
E) Ho Chi Minh

Question 13

Another name for the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 was?

A) Housing and Education Act
B) Retraining Act
C) Army Integration Act
D) GI Bill
E) Full Employment Act

Question 14

In what city did the delegates for the United Nations first meet?

A) Washington, D.C.
B) Seattle
C) Los Angeles
D) New York
E) San Francisco.

Question 15

Which of the following countries is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council?

A) Russia
B) Germany
C) United States
D) China
E) Great Britain

Question 16

The largest strike in American industry, in 1948, involved what industry.

A) Autos
B) Farming
C) Oil
D) Steel
E) Coal

Question 17

Who was the Southern "state's rights" democrat that ran against Truman in 1948?

A) Evers
B) Connors
C) Lyons
D) Thurmond
E) Wallace

Question 18

Who did the United States place in charge of Japan from 1945 to 1952?

A) MacArthur
B) Eisenhower
C) Patton
D) Pershing
E) Everett

Question 19

Who was the former Secretary of Commerce in the Truman Administration that ran for president as a Progressive?

A) Wallace
B) Thurman
C) Borders
D) Stevenson
E) Demers

Question 20

Which newspaper ran the headline "Dewey defeats Truman' in 1948?

A) Miami Herald
B) Washington Post
C) Chicago Tribune
D) New York Times
E) Boston Globe

Question 21

Who wrote the futuristic novel 1984?

A) Ellison
B) Bean
C) Orwell
D) Hemingway
E) Fitzgerald

Question 22

From which team in the Negro League did Jackie Robinson come from?

A) Galveston Flyaways
B) Kansas City Monarchs
C) New York Eagles
D) Birmingham Blackbarons
E) Baltimore Silvermoons

Question 23

The nuclear strategy that relied on total annihilation of both countries was called?

A) SAD
B) MAD
C) Do and Die
D) End of the World
E) Goodbye

Question 24

What range of years are considered the "Baby-Boom' Years?

A) 1948-1962
B) 1955-1965
C) 1945-1955
D) 1935-1955
E) 1946-1964

Question 25

General MacArthur's famous surprise landing in Korea was where?

A) Boyster Bay
B) Tulan
C) Seoul
D) Inchon
E) Pusan

Question 26

Which latitudinal parallel divided North and South Korea?

A) 38th
B) 57th
C) 14th
D) 22nd
E) 94th

Question 27

Who was the US senator who claimed he had the names of the "card-carrying communists' in the US State Department?

A) Joseph McCarthy
B) John Harrison
C) Henry Cabot Lodge
D) Strom Thurmond
E) Sam Breckinridge

Question 28

What was the US Supreme Court decision of 1954 that concluded separate was not equal regarding education?

A) Kansas v. NAACP
B) Brown v. Board of Education
C) Plessey v. Ferguson
D) Alter v. Homes
E) Topeka v. Missouri

Question 29

The Lavender Scare concerned which group?

A) Handicapped
B) Divorced women
C) Mexicans
D) Homosexuals
E) Native Americans