FINAL EXAM (Churchill - Loyalty Oath)

Question 1

Who is Winston Churchill

Answer 1

Prime minister and wartime leader of Great Britain during WWII

Question 2

When was Churchill a Prime minister?

What was going on while Churchill is the prime minister?

Answer 2

during WWII

Question 3

When did WWII end

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

What is the Triumph and Tragedy (excerpt), 1953

Answer 4

Winston Churchill’s memoir of WWII

Churchill and Josef Stalin deal near the end of the war

Question 5

Who is this

What is this individual’s nickname

Answer 5

Winston Churchill

The British Bulldog

Question 6

Why did Churchill and Stalin had a meeting near the end of WWII

“Let us settle our affairs in the Balkans”

Answer 6

They are allies, negotiating on how to finish off the war.

in particular what do we do with all these european countries that have been conquered by nazi germany

Question 7

Why does Stalin and Churchill care about the Balkans

Why is it an issue in 1944

What just recently happened during WWII

Question 8

During WWII, who was the biggest communist country

Answer 8

Soviet Union (Russia)

Question 9

What side was the Soviet Union with in WWII

Axis or Allies

Answer 9

Allies

Question 10

What countries in Europe that were not conquered by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany

Answer 10

Great Britain

Russia

Italy?

Question 11

What do Churchill and Stalin do with all the European countries that have been conquered by Nazi Germany

Question 12

What else happended during June 6 1944 in Northen France

Answer 12

D day

the major allied invasion of United States and British troops into northern Europe pushing the Germans out of France and back into Germany

Question 13

Who were in charged of the countries as the Germans left the Balkans countries

Answer 13

nobody

chaos

complete anarchy

Question 14

What specifically was Churchill and Stalin discussing about in the excerpt of Churchill’s memoirs

Answer 14

who will be in charge of the countries in the Balkans

someone needs to be in charge to put these countries back on their feet, rebuild the cities, getting running water and electricity back and giong, having elections a new government take over these countries

Question 15

Which countries were in position to take charge of the countries in the Balkans

Answer 15

Britain

Soviet Union (Russia)

Question 16

What did Churchill propose to Stalin with a piece of paper he slide across the table to stalin.

What was the proposal

Answer 16

The Soviet Union get most of one country, Briatin get most of another country, then the rest of the countries they split between each other; share some of them

Question 17

churchill sense of humor #7 28m50s

What did he joke to stalin after the deal?

Answer 17

Would it be funny in the future someone found out how we sat around and chopped the world map showing that you get these 10million people and I get these 10million people.

Question 18

What was the Greek Civil War?

Answer 18

In 1947 a civil war in greece with the Greek government agains the Greek communists

Question 19

Why would the Greek communist trying to fight and overthrow the Greece government be a problem to the United States?

Answer 19

Truman stated in his Speech to Congress on Greece and Turkey, “Great Britain finds itself under the necessity of reducing or liquidating its commitments in several parts of the world, including Greece

Question 20

Why was Great Britain liquidating its commitments?

Answer 20

It couldn’t afford its empire anymore

Beginning of the end of the Great Britain empire

Question 21

What is Truman trying to tell to the Congress with the Speech of COngress on Greece and Turkey?

Answer 21

That the US wants these countries to be stable, so the US better step up

Question 22

Why was US concerned of Greece falling into communism?

Answer 22

Who knows when will it stop.

If Greece is next to become communism, what about Turkey, Syria, Iran.

Those countries might be set up like dominoes; the fall to communist

Question 23

Why is communism wrong?

Answer 23

People doesn’t have free choice

Question 24

How does people of communism not have free choice?

Answer 24

They don’t get to vote who becomes the leader

Question 25

So what happened after Truman’s speech to Congress on Greece and Turkey?

Answer 25

The Congress agreed and went along with Truman.

Question 26

What year did the Greek civil war end?

Answer 26

1949

Question 27

Who won the Greek civil war?

Answer 27

The Greek (military) government

Question 28

What was(were) the outcome(s) of Truman’s policy?

Answer 28

It stopped Greece from falling into Communism

It set up a military dictatorship in Greece

Question 29

What is a cold war?

Answer 29

Not necessarily battlefields and tanks, but there are fighting behind the scenes, sort of tension, diplomatic fighting rather than actual battlefield fighting

Question 30

Define proxy?

Define proxy war?

Answer 30

You weren’t fighting the war, but was supporting a side.Somebody else was fighting for you. somebody who does something for you.

in this case of war, you’re not fighting in the war, but you are getting somebody else to fight for you

Question 31

Greek civil war was an example of one of the first proxy war of the Cold War.

Question 32

During the Greek civil war, were the US soldiers and Soviet Union (SU) soldiers literally fighting each other?

Answer 32

No

Question 33

Why was it probably a good reason for the United States not invade the Soviet Union?

Answer 33

Because of technology, it would have been suicide, both sides were armed, had nuclear weapons, and it was difficult to not use nuclear weapons.

Death scale would probably be higher than WWII

Question 34

How was the Cold War fought?

Answer 34

The Cold War was not fought directly, but through friends/allies.

Question 35

In the Greek civil war, who allied with the Greek Government and Greek Communist?

Answer 35

US allied with Greek Government

SU allied with Greek Communist

Question 36

Who won the Greek civil war?

Answer 36

The Greek Government

Question 37

What is the Truman Loyalty Oath?

Answer 37

Anyone towards overthrowing the government.

An individual could lose his/her job in the government, for sympathizing (don’t have to be a member, just associated) with communism or any association with it, not only communism, but any subversive (anything that questions american society [going against the norm]) group

Question 38

What is the purpose of the Loyalty Oath?

Answer 38

To make sure they (fed. gov’t) go the goods on everybody. So if you were subversive, they got you for it.

Question 39

When was Truman’s Loyalty Oath was put into effect?

Answer 39

21 March 1947

When Truman gave the Executive order 9853

Question 40

What is the purpose of the Executive Order 9853?

Answer 40

Its a rule that anyone can’t hire communists

If communists were found, the communists would be fired.

Question 41

How to find out who are communists?

Answer 41

Big time background checks, school records, witness testimonies

Question 42

How to tell if someone is a communist?

Answer 42

Thorough background check.

Sabotage - blowing stuff up

espionage - spying on country

Anthing towards overthrowing the government

Anybody remotely sypmathizing with communism or any association with it, not only communism, but any subversive group

Question 43

How is loyalty oath used?

Answer 43

IIf a communist lie and signs oath and later turns out to be communist, government has right to prosecute the communist for signing the oath

The communist purged him/herself