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Chapter 15 Cold War
Chapter 15 questions and answers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following was a result of the German invasion of the Soviet Union | The United States offered military equipment to a country viewed as a potential enemy in order to defeat the greater threat |
| World events in the late summer and fall of 1949 caused | the second Red Scare |
| Which of the following was the sequence in which tests of the policy of containment occurred | economic aid to Greece and Turkey, followed by the Berlin Crisis, followed by the Korean War |
| Which of the following events helped fuel the second Red Scare | Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb |
| What was one difference between the Nationalists and Communists in China | The Nationalists received support from the United States; the Communists did not |
| How were North and South Korea similar prior to the Korean War | Both the North and the South were occupied by Allied troops |
| Which of the following leaders wanted to reunify Korea under Communist control | Kim Il Sung |
| Why was the conflict in Korea called a police action | The United States never officially declared war |
| What was one difference between the governments of post-World War II Poland and Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia’s government refused to take orders from the Soviet Union; Poland’s did not |
| What was the biggest reason why Truman won the election of 1948 | He was able to shift the blame for the failure of domestic programs to the Republican Congress |
| U.S. actions in China after World War II demonstrated that the United States | was willing to support corrupt governments in order to stop the spread of communism |
| Why is the most likely reason Kim Il Sung chose to invade South Korea in June 1950 | American troops had recently withdrawn from South Korea |
| The foreign policy that aimed to stop communism from spreading was called | containment |
| Why did President Truman fire General Douglas MacArthur | MacArthur made public statements challenging the authority of the president |
| What did HUAC investigate in the 1950s | domestic Communist threats |
| What kept the U.S. economy strong after World War II | The demand for consumer goods rose sharply after the war |
| Represented one of the first efforts of the United Nations to fulfill its mission | adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| The staggering number of casualties in the final two months of the Korean War showed that | both sides were willing to lose many soldiers to gain a small amount of territory |
| Why did the United States not share the plan to develop that atomic bomb with the Soviet Union during World War II | The United States did not trust the Soviet Union |
| Why was Joseph McCarthy able to wage a successful anti-Communist campaign | Americans were looking for someone to blame for recent Communist victories |
| Why did the United States and Britain begin the Berlin airlift | to prevent all of Berlin from becoming Communist |
| How might a member of Congress in 1950 have defended the passage of the McCarran Act | Freedom of speech should be protected at all costs |
| Why was the United States able to implement the Marshall Plan after World War II | The country did not suffer the economic devastation that European countries faced |
| Where were details of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War negotiated | Panmunjom |
| Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | convicted spies |
| In his speech to Congress about the situation in Korea, President Truman was demonstrating his support for | the policy of containment |
| The problem with Truman’s Fair Deal was that it | did not receive support in Congress |
| Why was the United States willing to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Greece and Turkey in 1947 | policymakers believed the aid would help these countries resist Soviet pressure |
| What effect did Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech have on the tensions of the Cold War | It heightened tensions because Stalin used the speech as an excuse to spend Soviet resources on rebuilding the military |
| Although the fighting on the Korean Peninsula has come to be known as the Korean War, the United States | never officially declared war |
| Was partially responsible for the smooth shift from wartime to consumer economy after World War II | baby boom |
| Won the presidential election of 1948 | Harry S. Truman |
| Case that frightened many people into testifying before HUAC | the Hollywood Ten |
| Early in the Korean War, UN forces were contained by North Korea forces around the city of | Pusan |
| Justified giving economic aid to the governments that were resisting the Soviet Union | Truman Doctrine |
| Korea was divided after WWII at the | 38th parallel |
| Policy aimed to stop Communism from spreading to any other countries | containment |
| The United Nations idea they presented as one step toward world peace and security | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was negotiated in | P’anmunjom |
| Created a foreign policy known as containment | George F. Kennan |
| Symbolic representation of a sharp division in Europe | Iron Curtain |
| Executed for spying | Ethel Rosenberg |
| President of South Korea’s Republic of Korea | Syngman Rhee |
| Program based on the belief that economic prosperity would foster free and democratic governments | The Marshall Plan |
| Led the Chinese Communists | Mao Zedong |
| Era of high tension between the world’s superpowers | Cold War |
| Invaded South Korea in June 1950 | Kim Il Sung |
| Plan that provided crucial supplies to British, French, and U.S. occupied zones | Berlin airlift |
| Group focused on the threat of communism in the United States | House Un-American Activities Committee |
| President Truman’s plan for America | Fair Deal |
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