Chapter 23 Quiz

A  Douglas MacArthur

B  George F. Kennan

C  Harry S. Truman

D  George C. Marshall

A  Julius Rosenberg

B  Alger Hiss

C  Joseph R. McCarthy

D  George C. Marshall

A  The Soviets formalized their own eastern European alliance, the Warsaw Pact.

B  NATO was established.

C  The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb.

D  Mao Zedong emerged victorious in the long Chinese Civil War.

A  the signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers

B  the desegregation of the armed forces

C  the defeat of Operation Dixie

D  the release of the Commission on Civil Rights report, To Secure These Rights

A  General Douglas MacArthur launched a daring counterattack at Inchon, behind North Korean lines, in September 1950.

B  President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur’s push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

C  In 1953, an armistice was agreed to that restored the prewar status quo

D  Over 33,000 Americans died in Korea; an estimated 1 million Korean soldiers and 2 million civilians died, along with hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.

A  McCarthy was not fit to stand trial; instead he sent his assistant to read the charges, which could not be entered into evidence without McCarthy’s physical appearance in the hearings.

B  It became clear that McCarthy was a bully who browbeat witnesses and made sweeping accusations with no basis in fact.

C  Neither side was able to prove their point; Congress dropped the charges as there was insufficient evidence.

D  McCarthy gloated that he was right and the army had been willing to look the other way to save their reputation.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  putting political pressure on the United Nations.

B  making threats to use atomic weapons against the Soviet Union.

C  leading efforts to break the blockade by airlifting supplies to the city.

D  leading a United Nations expeditionary force to relieve the city.

A  countries that could not pay back their U.S. loans be removed from the most favored trade nation status.

B  the U.S. cut ties with European countries that owed the U.S. money until more credit had been established.

C  the U.S. contribute billions of dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe.

D  the countries which owed the U.S. money not be granted a seat at the United Nations.

A  North Korea and South Korea.

B  North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

C  the Balkans.

D  East Berlin and West Berlin.

A  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

B  the Fair Deal.

C  the Economic Bill of Rights.

D  the Freedom House Manifesto.

A  the Square Deal.

B  the Fair Deal.

C  the Great Society.

D  the New Frontier.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  the overthrow of the government of Greece.

B  the invasion of South Korea.

C  the publication of NSC-68.

D  the “loss” of China to communism.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  the policy by which the United States committed itself to isolationism.

B  the policy by which the United States committed itself to containing its power principally to domestic issues; in this context, “containment” is another word for isolationism.

C  the policy by which the United States committed itself to preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.

D  the policy by which the United States committed itself to containing the flow of illegal immigrants from Latin America.