American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 27: THE COLD WAR

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Harry Truman would face many foreign policy dilemmas during his tenure in the presidency. Which of the following did not occur under Truman's watch?
A)the bombing of Hiroshima
B)the Chinese Revolution
C)the Korean War
D)Dien Bien Phu
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The influential American diplomat in this picture helped formulate the Truman Doctrine and argued that the wisest foreign policy would be one that exercised "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." Who is he?
A)Alger Hiss
B)Henry Wallace
C)George Kennan
D)Hubert Humphrey
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On what issue would General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry Truman, the two men in this picture, become embroiled in a very public dispute?
A)NSC-68
B)the Korean War
C)HUAC
D)the Chinese Revolution
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Five years after WWII, American soldiers found themselves once again on the battlefield. Although the tide of war would turn several times during the Korean conflict, the war eventually became stalemated at
A)the 17th parallel.
B)the 24th parallel.
C)the 38th parallel.
D)the 42nd parallel.
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General MacArthur visits the Korean War front. The original surprise American invasion that routed the North Korean forces from the south was located at
A)Inchon.
B)Formosa.
C)NSC-68.
D)Syngman Rhee.
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This man, the Republican candidate for president in 1944 and 1948, is said to have "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory" in his loss to Harry Truman. Who is he?
A)Henry Wallace
B)Adlai Stevenson
C)Thomas Dewey
D)Strom Thurmond
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The U.S. tests a nuclear weapon on the island of Bikini Atoll. American fears over nuclear disaster, as reflected in genres like film noir and television shows like The Twilight Zone, grew even more strident after the Soviet Union detonated their own nuclear device. Who among the following was put to death soon thereafter for suspected Soviet espionage and subversion?
A)Alger Hiss
B)Klaus Fuchs
C)Whittaker Chambers
D)Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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This 1938 cartoon illustrates "How Communism Works" to infiltrate itself around the world. Which of the following people made his own career suggesting a very similar chain-of-events for Communist infiltration?
A)Joseph McCarthy
B)Alger Hiss
C)Adlai Stevenson
D)Omar Bradley
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Later vice-president and president, Richard Nixon first made his name as a freshman Republican congressman and virulently anti-Communist member of HUAC. What was Nixon's "smoking gun" for convicting diplomat Alger Hiss of perjury?
A)the "Blacklist"
B)NSC-68
C)the "Pumpkin Papers"
D)the "Checkers Speech"
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This bucket supports the 1952 Republican slate for president. Who did Dwight Eisenhower run against both times?
A)Strom Thurmond
B)Adlai Stevenson
C)Hubert Humphrey
D)Joseph McCarthy
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