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Questions

1. Which of the following is closer to the truth?

A) The American war effort was hurt by the lack of women working outside the home.

B) Millions of women got jobs in America during World War II, including manufacturing.

C) Women were working in large numbers during World War II until President Roosevelt issued an executive order banning that.

2. Why was boosting US exports, a priority for US policy makers after World War II?

A) fear of a post-war depression

B) fear of the Soviet economy outproducing that of the United States

C) fear of West Germany buying goods from the Soviet Union

D) fear of low prices for US goods because of over-production

3. What was the response of the communists to the Bay of Pigs invasion?

A) installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba

B) blockade of the coast of the United States

C) increased surveillance of the United States with U-2 planes

4. According to Truman, what would be the result of bombing mainland China, and helping Nationalist Chinese forces attack from Taiwan?

A) Forcing the USSR to sign a peace treaty

B) Make a Cold War victory inevitable

C) Starting a general war

D) Removing Mao Zedong from power

5. Which of the following answers is most accurate?

According to Stimson, a conventional invasion of Japan in WWII would have taken the lives of about

A) No estimate was given by Stimson

B) 5 thousand people

C) 2 million people

D) 100 thousand people

E) 1 million people

6. How did Kissinger contrast the policies of self interest, and containment?

A) Containment prevented co-operation with allies; self interest called for co-operation with allies

B) Containment had a limitation (depending on if there was a military or economic issue at stake); self interest had none

C) Self interest prevented co-operation with allies; containment called for co-operation

D) Self interest had a limitation (depending on if there was a military or economic issue at stake); containment had none

7. In what way did Jeane Kirkpatrick compare traditional dictatorships to those imposed by radicals?

A) Traditional dictatorships produced many more refugees than communist dictatorships did

B) Radical dictatorships were more likely to evolve into democracies

C) Traditional dictatorships were more likely to evolve into democracies

D) Radical dictatorships produce fewer refugees

8. How do the economies of the World War II Allied powers (US, Britain, and the USSR) compare to those of Germany and Japan?

A) Germany and Japan had much more productive economies

B) The Allied had much more productive economies

C) Germany & Japan had more productive economies before WWII, but the Allies had larger economies after WWII

D) Both sides had economies that were roughly the same size

9. What did Jeane Kirkpatrick argue about traditional and radical dictatorships?

A) The US should invade nations to suppress traditional dictatorships

B) The US should invade nations to suppress radical groups

C) The US support traditional dictatorships, so they don't turn into radical dictatorships

D) The US should support more radical groups

10. President Truman fired MacArthur because

A) MacArthur was openly critical of Truman's policies

B) Truman wanted to be seen as being tough on communism

C) MacArthur was running as a candidate for President against Truman

D) MacArthur was suspected of being a communist spy

11. What result did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan have?

A) Soviet Union started importing more oil, which raised the price of oil

B) Soviet Union started exporting more oil, which lowered the price of oil

C) Saudi Arabia started selling less oil, which raised the price of oil

D) Saudi Arabia started selling more oil, which lowered the price of oil

12. According to Henry Stimson, towards the end of World War II, Japan had suggested a peace treaty between the US and Japan; but what was the problem with that offer?

A) It would have required the US to give up Hawaii

B) It required a Japan-US alliance against the Soviet Union

C) It would have cost the US too much money to have supported it

D) The proposed arrangement allowed Japan to keep conquered territory, and to allow its government to stay in power

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of Reagan's fight against the USSR?

A) Massive increase in military spending

B) of cruise missiles

C) Convincing the Soviet Union to export more of their oil to other nations

D) Arming groups who fought the USSR or its allies

14. What effect did Reagan's support of Solidarity have on the USSR?

A) Forced the USSR to spend several billion dollars a year to provide support for Poland

B) It forced the USSR to borrow lots of money from Poland

C) It forced the USSR to advise Poland to leave the Warsaw Pact

D) It forced the USSR to seek an alliance with China

15. In the years immediately before World War II, US crude oil production was about

A) 5 million tonnes a year less than that of Germany and Japan

B) 5 million tonnes a year greater than that of Germany and Japan

C) 170 million tonnes a year greater than that of Germany and Japan

D) Equal to that of Germany and Japan

16. The US went into the Korean and Vietnamese Wars by following what doctrine?

A) Balance of power

B) Self interest

C) Spheres of influence

D) Containment

17. What was a problem with the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

A) It needlessly angered the Soviet Union

B) It was used by racist prosecuting attorneys to imprison blacks fighting segregation

C) The law made it difficult to actually convict someone of violating it

D) It cut funding from badly needed programs

18. What factors made the USSR look very strong in the 1970s?

A) It was buying more oil from its global suppliers than ever before

B) It was exporting more wheat than ever before

C) It was bringing nations under its influence

D) It had concluded a successful war in Afghanistan

19. President Truman strove to avoid

A) a big depression like the one in the 30s

B) starting World War II with Germany and Japan

C) sending US forces to bomb China

20. Why did the West decide to unite the British, French, and American sections of Germany in the years after WWII?

A) A united West Germany might compete with US exports

B) A united West Germany could produce nuclear weapons for NATO

C) A united West Germany might move into the communist camp

D) A united West Germany could support itself, instead of relying on US aid

21. According to the Foreign Trade reading, what happened when US multinational corporations increased their investment in their overseas affiliates?

A) There was no relationship between investment overseas and investment in the US

B) Investment by the US company in the US decreased

C) Investment by the US company in the US increased

D) US law forbids US companies from investing overseas

22. The foreign trade reading made the point that as

A) employment by US multinationals overseas decreased, emplyment in these same companies, in the US, increased

B) There was no correlation between employment by US multinationals overeseas, and in the US

C) employment by US multinationals overseas increased, emplyment in these same companies, in the US, decreased

D) employment by US multinationals overseas increased, so did employment in these same companies, in the US