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The American policy of containment was intended to |
| | A) | prevent the Soviet Union from invading the United States. |
| | B) | free eastern Europe from the clutches of communism. |
| | C) | undermine communism by promoting capitalism. |
| | D) | prevent the Soviet Union from expanding its influence to any new countries. |
| | E) | prevent an alliance between the Soviet Union and Communist China. |
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The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that |
| | A) | the western allies were afraid of a nuclear war. |
| | B) | the Soviet Union lacked the will to confront the west. |
| | C) | Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin. |
| | D) | Berlin could survive without outside support. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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As a result of the Korean War, |
| | A) | the border between North and South Korea was restored at the 38th parallel. |
| | B) | the Korean Peninsula became the site of prolonged, unresolved tensions. |
| | C) | the United Nations sponsored military action to restore the sovereignty of South Korea. |
| | D) | China intervened when provoked by American troops on its border. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Which of the following would not be an example of the U.S. policy of containment? |
| | A) | the Korean War. |
| | B) | the Berlin airlift. |
| | C) | the Vietnam War. |
| | D) | NATO. |
| | E) | the Warsaw Pact. |
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Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba |
| | A) | with direct Soviet support. |
| | B) | with direct American support. |
| | C) | with support from other Latin American states. |
| | D) | because of popular discontent with Batista and with U.S. control of the Cuban economy. |
| | E) | none of the above. |
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At the Bay of Pigs in 1961, |
| | A) | invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops. |
| | B) | American special forces were defeated by Cuban troops. |
| | C) | anti-Castro Cuban forces defeated Cuban forces on the beach but failed to spark an uprising against Castro. |
| | D) | an American naval blockade turned back Soviet supply ships. |
| | E) | the Soviet Union set up nuclear missiles aimed at the United States. |
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The Cuban missile crisis ended when |
| | A) | the United States invaded Cuba and overthrew Batista. |
| | B) | the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade Cuba. |
| | C) | the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba in exchange for the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. |
| | D) | Khrushchev agreed to end the blockade of Berlin. |
| | E) | the United States threatened to impose a strict embargo on all Cuban exports. |
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The expression "domestic containment" refers to |
| | A) | the public hearings to expose spies and communists in the United States in the 1950s. |
| | B) | strict immigration quotas imposed against people from communist countries. |
| | C) | efforts to keep communism from taking hold in the western hemisphere. |
| | D) | the popular retreat to the home and family to escape from the anxieties of the cold war. |
| | E) | volunteer activities of U.S. housewives to showcase the American way of life. |
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Despite the prosperity of the postwar years, many groups expressed dissatisfaction, including |
| | A) | middle-class housewives, who felt lonely and unfulfilled with domestic life. |
| | B) | African-Americans, who organized in protest of institutional segregation. |
| | C) | college students, who organized in protest of American involvement in Vietnam. |
| | D) | political radicals, who expressed their unhappiness with national policies through rock and roll. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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The Soviet Union dominated the foreign affairs of all the following countries except |
| | A) | East Germany. |
| | B) | Czechoslovakia. |
| | C) | Hungary. |
| | D) | Poland. |
| | E) | Yugoslavia. |
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The reorganization of China under communism included all of the following except |
| | A) | incentives to individual farmers to increase productivity. |
| | B) | a Five-Year Plan that emphasized heavy industry over consumer goods. |
| | C) | collective farming to replace individual farming. |
| | D) | full legal equality for women. |
| | E) | health and public education provided through local collectives. |
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Tensions developed between China and the Soviet Union after |
| | A) | the Soviets refused to buy any Chinese goods. |
| | B) | the two countries disagreed over who should get control of Tibet. |
| | C) | the Soviets tried to prevent the Chinese from developing nuclear weapons. |
| | D) | the Soviets refused to support China against India and stinted China on foreign aid. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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President Richard Nixon sought to end the conflict in Vietnam by all the following strategies except |
| | A) | heavily bombing North Vietnam. |
| | B) | negotiating a peace settlement with the North Vietnamese. |
| | C) | expanding the war into Cambodia and Laos, where guerillas were thought to be hiding. |
| | D) | threatening to use nuclear weapons against the North Vietnamese. |
| | E) | arming and training the South Vietnamese and then letting them conduct the war. |
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The Soviet Union failed to impose a communist government in Afghanistan because |
| | A) | Islamic leaders objected to radical social reforms. |
| | B) | the PDPA was brutal and unpopular. |
| | C) | the Soviet people grew tired of the war after several futile years. |
| | D) | the CIA supplied the mujahideen with arms for their resistance. |
| | E) | All of the above. |
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Which of the following would not be an example of the popular youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s? |
| | A) | antiwar protests in American universities. |
| | B) | political satire like Dr. Strangelove. |
| | C) | the Red Guard of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. |
| | D) | student riots in Paris. |
| | E) | the Berkeley free speech movement. |
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The Watergate scandal demonstrated that |
| | A) | the United States could not win the war in Vietnam. |
| | B) | Richard Nixon had stolen the election of 1972. |
| | C) | Nixon had launched unauthorized bombing of Cambodia. |
| | D) | Nixon had supported a massive cover-up of crimes committed by his staff. |
| | E) | All of the above. |
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Which of the following was not a factor in the collapse of the communist governments of eastern Europe in 1989? |
| | A) | Gorbachev’s announcement that the Soviet Union was withdrawing its financial and military support. |
| | B) | the leadership of Yugoslavia in opposing the Soviet Union. |
| | C) | the failure of communism to gain the support of indigenous populations. |
| | D) | the efforts of the Solidarity movement in Poland. |
| | E) | the defeat of the communist regimes in democratic elections. |
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The end of communism in east and central Europe was peaceful in every state except |
| | A) | Bulgaria. |
| | B) | Czechoslovakia. |
| | C) | Hungary. |
| | D) | Poland. |
| | E) | Romania. |
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The greatest resistance to Gorbachev’s economic reforms came from |
| | A) | party leaders who refused to relinquish control over economic planning. |
| | B) | military leaders who feared that any changes would mean less for them. |
| | C) | Russian consumers who feared that changes would mean more hardship for them. |
| | D) | other communist states that counted on the economic support of the Soviet Union. |
| | E) | Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Republic, fearing that Russia might lose its central position. |
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Which of the following was not a state formed by the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? |
| | A) | Estonia. |
| | B) | Germany. |
| | C) | Georgia. |
| | D) | Russia. |
| | E) | Ukraine. |
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