Ch 24

Front 1

Which event happened last?

Back 1

Khrushchev assumes power

Front 2

Long-range effects of the Korean War included all of the following EXCEPT:

Back 2

the United States was hesitant to intervene in future Southeast Asian conflicts.

Front 3

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization:

Back 3

solidified ties between the United States and its western European allies.

Front 4

The content of George Kennan's "long telegram" depicted:

Back 4

an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expansionist communism.

Front 5

The Limited Test Ban Treaty:

Back 5

outlawed nuclear testing in the atmosphere and underwater.

Front 6

President Truman believed that North Korea's invasion of South Korea:

Back 6

involved planning by the Soviet Union.

Front 7

Effects of the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik included which of the following?

Back 7

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created by Congress.

Front 8

The photograph of German children waving at American transport planes during the Berlin airlift:

Back 8

all of the above

Front 9

The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to:

Back 9

contain communism by not letting it spread to other nations.

Front 10

During the Eisenhower administration, official American policy for a Soviet attack on western Europe called for:

Back 10

massive nuclear retaliation against the USSR.

Front 11

The Hollywood Ten:

Back 11

refused to discuss their politics, citing the protections of free speech.

Front 12

The United States and other Western nations responded to the Berlin blockade by:

Back 12

airlifting supplies into the isolated city.

Front 13

When deciding what to do about Soviet ballistic missiles being placed in Cuba, President Kennedy opted to:

Back 13

use a naval quarantine to prevent the Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba.

Front 14

In 1956, the Soviet Union used military force to suppress an uprising in:

Back 14

Hungary.

Front 15

Critics of President Kennedy's methods of defusing the Cuban missile crisis point out that:

Back 15

all of the above

Front 16

A major effect of the Marshall Plan was:

Back 16

a strengthening of the economic relationship between the United States and western Europe.

Front 17

The loyalty program:

Back 17

resulted in the firings and resignations of many innocent Americans.

Front 18

Long-range effects of NSC-68 included all of the following EXCEPT:

Back 18

it provided American leaders with a better understanding of local nationalist movements.

Front 19

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

Back 19

were convicted and electrocuted for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

Front 20

All of the following statements about the Second Red Scare are true EXCEPT:

Back 20

Republicans used the scare to discredit Dwight Eisenhower's political coalition.