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

Chapter 27: THE COLD WAR

True or False Quiz

1
At the Teheran Conference in November 1943, despite some tension and unresolved issues, Roosevelt and Stalin established a cordial personal relationship and the Soviet Union agreed to enter the war in the Pacific after the end of hostilities in Europe.
A)True
B)False
2
At the Yalta Conference Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to the basic plan for the United Nations, which included a Security Council with permanent membership for the United States, Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union.
A)True
B)False
3
The communist victory in China in 1949 increased U.S. resolve to keep Japan economically weak so that the Japanese would not be tempted to renew aggression against China.
A)True
B)False
4
The specific conflict that inspired President Truman to issue the "Truman Doctrine" involved a dispute between Poland and Hungary.
A)True
B)False
5
The NSC-68 report was rejected by President Truman because it pointed out the high cost of containment and suggested that an arms race would delay economic recovery.
A)True
B)False
6
Shortly after World War II, there was a sharp rise in labor unrest marked by major strikes in the automobile, electrical, steel, and coal industries.
A)True
B)False
7
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island of Formosa (Taiwan), the United States officially recognized Mao Zedong's regime as the government of mainland China.
A)True
B)False
8
The United States originally offered to include the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites in the Marshall Plan for economic recovery.
A)True
B)False
9
Stalin blockaded access to Berlin so as to pressure the United States, Britain, and France to merge their zones of occupation into one unit as West Germany.
A)True
B)False
10
President Truman's "Fair Deal," including the Taft-Hartley Act, was designed mainly as a conservative reaction to the reforms of the New Deal.
A)True
B)False
11
After President Truman's unexpected victory in 1948, Congress quickly passed almost all of his "Fair Deal" agenda.
A)True
B)False
12
Congress passed the "right-to-work" bill in order to guarantee work to any American unable to find a job, but it was killed by a Truman veto.
A)True
B)False
13
The Korean War began in 1950 when military forces of the communist North invaded the pro-Western South.
A)True
B)False
14
The investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) exposed convincing evidence that communist agents had thoroughly infiltrated the U.S. Department of State during World War II while the United States was officially allied with the Soviet Union against Germany.
A)True
B)False
15
Congress passed the McCarran Internal Security Act in order to prevent Senator Joseph McCarthy from extending his "Red Scare" hearing to the army.
A)True
B)False
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