Extra Quiz: Chapter 36
1. The "Big Three" who met at Yalta in February 1945 were Roosevelt, Stalin, and:
2. Churchill's 1946 "iron curtain" speech described:
3. Harry Truman became president in April 1945 after:
4. George Kennan's "long telegram" laid the foundation for:
5. The Truman Doctrine (1947) pledged American support to:
6. Which two nations first received aid under the Truman Doctrine?
7. George C. Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, served as:
8. Stalin refused to let Eastern Bloc nations accept the Marshall Plan because he:
9. The Berlin Blockade of 1948 was an attempt by Stalin to:
10. The Berlin Airlift succeeded in:
11. NATO, founded in April 1949, was significant chiefly because it was:
12. The Soviet Union's communist counterpart to NATO, formed in 1955, was the:
13. The Soviet Union's first successful atomic bomb test occurred in:
14. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, defeated by the communists in 1949, fled to:
15. The communist victory in China in 1949 sparked a domestic American debate over:
16. NSC-68, a secret 1950 policy paper, called for:
17. The Korean War began when:
18. Truman's decision to fight in Korea under a UN mandate rather than seek a declaration of war was described as a:
19. General MacArthur's amphibious landing that turned the tide of the Korean War took place at:
20. Chinese forces intervened in the Korean War after:
21. Truman fired General MacArthur in 1951 primarily because MacArthur:
22. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were both associated with:
23. HUAC's investigations into Hollywood produced a:
24. Senator Joseph McCarthy launched the Second Red Scare with a February 1950 speech claiming to have a list of:
25. McCarthy's power and credibility collapsed following the:
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