Chapter 23 Quiz

A  George F. Kennan

B  George C. Marshall

C  Douglas MacArthur

D  Harry S. Truman

A  Alger Hiss

B  Joseph R. McCarthy

C  Julius Rosenberg

D  George C. Marshall

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

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

C  NATO was established.

D  The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb.

A  the signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers

B  the defeat of Operation Dixie

C  the desegregation of the armed forces

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

A  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.

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

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

B  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.

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  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

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

B  putting political pressure on the United Nations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  the Balkans.

B  East Berlin and West Berlin.

C  North Korea and South Korea.

D  North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

A  the Freedom House Manifesto.

B  the Economic Bill of Rights.

C  the Fair Deal.

D  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

A  the Square Deal.

B  the New Frontier.

C  the Great Society.

D  the Fair Deal.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  the publication of NSC-68.

B  the overthrow of the government of Greece.

C  the “loss” of China to communism.

D  the invasion of South Korea.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

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

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

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

D  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.