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Problem 1: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were

a. Anti-Semites.

b. Found not guilty because federal prosecutors had no incontrovertible evidence proving their guilt.

c. Related to Klaus Fuchs, who had been arrested by the British for selling American atomic plans.

d. Tried, convicted, and executed for conspiring to steal American atomic information.

Problem 2: If white Americans did not know what they were fighting the war for, they knew what they fighting against. That list included all of the following except

a. Racism.

b. Gestapos.

c. Master races.

d. Fascism.

Problem 3: In the election of 1948, Truman was expected to lose because

a. All of the above.

b. The progressives were expected to undermine the Democrat vote.

c. The president suffered low approval ratings.

d. Segregationists were expected to undermine the Democrat vote.

Problem 4: Which of the following was a source of the conflict between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?

a. The fact that the State Department recognized the Soviet Union in 1933.

b. President Roosevelt's mistrust of Josef Stalin at the Japanese surrender in September 1945.

c. Josef Stalin's betrayal of the United States at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

d. The belief that capitalism and Communism cannot coexist.