U.S. History Final

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Question Who was the communist dictator of the U.S.S.R (Russia) during WWII?

Answer 1 – 10 Joseph Stalin

Question How did the U.S. and Russia differ in their ideas of how they felt they should treat Germany after WWII?

Answer 1 – 20 Russia felt Germany must pay reparations and be weakened. The U.S. wanted to help rebuild Germany’s economy to avoid the same conditions that had led to WWI.

Question United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38 th parallel when this communist power got involved.

Answer 1 – 30 China

Question Name one positive effect of the Korean war.

Answer 1 – 40 Communism did not take over all of the Korean Peninsula.

Question The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to?

Answer 1 – 50 Help Western Europe’s economy recover from WWII, hopefully making Communism less attractive to them.

Question The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan shared what common goal?

Answer 2 – 10 Containing Communism

Question The “Iron Curtain” is a symbol of?

Answer 2 – 20 The division between Communist Eastern Europe and Western European democracies during the Cold War.

Question This photo represents?

Answer 2 – 30 Duck and Cover drills in America because of American fears of a nuclear attack

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Communism

Answer 2 – 40 Soviet Union

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Individual freedoms

Answer 2 – 50 United States

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Command/government run economy

Answer 3 – 10 Soviet Union

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Citizens have no control over government officials

Answer 3 – 20 Soviet Union

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Democracy

Answer 3 – 30 United States

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Government control of means of production (factories, resources, labor)

Answer 3 – 40 Soviet Union

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Free elections

Answer 3 – 50 United States

Question Match the country with its values. a.) United States b.) Soviet Union Free market/capitalism

Answer 4 – 10 United States

Question Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television had what effect on Americans?

Answer 4 – 20 It helped create a credibility gap between the government and the American people because Americans could see that what the government was telling them wasn’t exactly true.

Question What was the Domino Theory?

Answer 4 – 30 Felt that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would many other nations in Southeast Asia.

Question Russian leader Mikhail Gorbechev’s policy of glasnost (openness) had what effect on Russian society at the end of the Cold War?

Answer 4 – 40 Soviet people could openly discuss politics.

Question Russian leader Mikhail Gorbechev’s policy of perestroika (restructuring) had what effect on Russian society at the end of the Cold War?

Answer 4 – 50 It involved new economic planning including some capitalist reforms to try to stop the declining communist economy.

Question What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?

Answer 5 – 10 The government had not been honest with the public about the Vietnam War. Officials had painted a better picture of the war then was actually true, and many officials publicly supported the war while privately opposing it.

Question When the French left Vietnam, the United States stepped in to?

Answer 5 – 20 Protect the pro-Western government in South Vietnam.

Question The Vietminh first formed in Vietnam (with U.S. support) to?

Answer 5 – 30 Push the Japanese out of Vietnam and gain independence.

Question A main reason President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam was his fear that, like had happened in Korea, it would?

Answer 5 – 40 Bring Chinese Communists into the war.

Question What happened at My Lai that profoundly shocked Americans?

Answer 5 – 50 Vietnamese civilians were massacred and even raped by U.S. soldiers.