Unit 7 world history – Flashcards
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The so-called "Truman Doctrine" was specifically designed to aid
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countries trying to resist the spread of Communism.
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The original purpose of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was to
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provide for a defense pact against possible Soviet aggression.
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Which word best describes the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?
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containment
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This World War II poster is suggesting that
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freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
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The Allied assault on German-occupied France in June of 1944 is known as
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D-Day.
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The Truman Doctrine of the late 1940s was
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the U.S. policy of offering aid to countries threatened by communism.
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On June 6, 1944, a combined force of U.S., British, Canadian, and Free French soldiers landed in
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France.
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The Marshall Plan benefited the United States as well as western Europe because
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European economic recovery meant that the sale of U.S. goods to European countries would increase.
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"Urban sprawl" was accidentally created in post-World War II America thanks MAINLY to which of these?
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expansion of the highway system
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A. Philip Randolph's proposed "March on Washington" in 1941 was going to protest racially discriminatory hiring practices in the defense industry, but was called off after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the
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Fair Employment Act.
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Rationing is a system under which an agency such as the government decides everyone's "fair" share. Rationing has often been used during wartime. If people receive a set ration regardless of the amount of work completed, how would this affect peoples' incentive to work?
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People might feel less inclined to work.
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Many people around the world agreed with the formation of the state of Israel because of the events associated with
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the Holocaust.
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In which conflict was containment successful?
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the Korean War
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During his rise to power, Hitler gained popularity and helped stir extreme anti-Semitic sentiment by
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blaming the collapse of world trade and other economic failures on Jewish financiers.
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Which answer choice lists the events of World War II in correct chronological order?
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Lend-Lease → Pearl Harbor → D-Day → the atomic bomb
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Which of these had the BIGGEST impact on the increase in 1950s consumerism?
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television
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Which event would have FIRST caused the United States to begin reversing its Neutrality Acts in the early stages of World War II?
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Germany's invasion of Poland
