Quiz #9 Flashcards
America’s basic cold war strategy emerged when the Truman administration adopted the recommendations of U.S. diplomat and Soviet specialist George Kennan. This strategy is known as the
containment doctrine
The purpose of the Berlin airlift of 1948–1949 was to
provide food and fuel that were necessary for West Berliners to survive the Soviet blockade
Which of the following best assesses the outcome of the Korean War?
Korea remained divided, almost along the same border as it had been in 1950.
What happened to Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek after his defeat on mainland China in 1949?
He fled to the island of Formosa, which later became Taiwan.
What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan?
to provide financial aid to rebuild Europe’s war-torn economies
Which of the following was a practical benefit of humanitarian and economic aid to Western Europe in the form of the Marshall Plan?
As Europeans’ economies recovered, so would their interest in buying American goods.
US policymakers incorrectly believed that communist China was a puppet state of:
USSR
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures […] Should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far-reaching to the West as well as to the East.”
President Truman, March 1947
In 1959, vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in _______ at the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
the kitchen debate
Among the “shocks of 1949” was the
fall of China to Mao Zedong’s Communists.
In addition to Communist takeovers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, what else did the Soviets do to try to cement their hold on Eastern Europe?
block Western access to Berlin
General MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea because he
publicly opposed Truman’s policy of limited war in Korea.
Who were the “Big Three” leaders who gathered at Yalta in 1945?
Churchill-FDR-Stalin
American diplomat whose 1946 “long telegram” from Moscow warned US policy leaders of Stalin’s intent to hold on to Eastern Europe:
George Kennan
NSC-68, a proposal of Truman’s National Security Council, called for
massive U.S. defense expenditures to counter the worldwide Soviet threat.
Castro’s right-hand man, and known communist, during the Cuban Revolution and early revolutionary government:
Che Guevara
The Warsaw Pact was designed to:
be a military alliance between the USSR and communist Eastern Europe
The National Security Act of 1947 provided for all the following EXCEPT:
MAD was declared America’s primary nuclear policy toward the USSR
What was the official status of the American force fighting in Korea?
an authorized agent of a United Nations police action
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was ‘civis Romanus sum.’ Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ Some say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin […] Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us […] All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.”
John F. Kennedy, 1963
To end the Cuban Missile Crisis the superpowers pledged to all the following except:
USSR not intervene in Vietnam
Who first described the separation between Eastern and Western Europe as an Iron Curtain?
Winston Churchill
Which of the following events stunned Americans in 1957?
the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite
The first man successfully launched into orbit in 1961 was:
Yuri Gagarin
Which country was NOT a member of NATO?
Poland
