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The reaction by Western Europe to the Berlin blockade was the ___________.

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  1. Invasion of East Germany

  2. Threat to increase nuclear arms

  3. Use of spy satellites

  4. Boycott of Soviet goods

  5. Berlin airlift

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The reaction by Western Europe to the Berlin blockade was the Berlin airlift.

For Western Europe, the Marshall Plan provided ____________.

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  1. Military assistance

  2. Cultural links

  3. Technology

  4. Economic aid

  5. Medical goods and equipment

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

During the years following the World War II, President Truman's foreign policy was focused chiefly on _________.

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  1. Nuclear testing

  2. Economic growth in underdeveloped countries

  3. Containment of international communism

  4. Diplomatic relations with Eastern European nations

  5. Creation of cultural links with Red China

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The policy of containment grew out of a response to the Soviet Union's attempts to expand its influence in Eastern Europe after World War II. Containment relied on both military and economic strategies. This economic strategy was first implemented by Truman in 1947.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art. The speaker is describing which of the following?

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  1. Brinksmanship

  2. Appeasement

  3. Imperialism

  4. Dollar diplomacy

  5. Containment

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Brinkmanship is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict. It occurs in international politics, foreign policy, labor relations, and military strategy involving the threat of nuclear weapons, and high-stakes litigation.

All the following were possible motives for President Harry S. Truman using the atomic bomb against Japan EXCEPT:

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  1. Japan refused to surrender.

  2. Truman wanted to dismantle Japan's nuclear facilities.

  3. the bombing could prevent a costly U.S. land invasion of Japan

  4. Truman wished to demonstrate the power of the bomb to the Soviet Union.

  5. The United States wanted revenge for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Truman wanted to dismantle Japan's nuclear facilities.

Which of the following works of the American the ater explicitly compares McCarthyism to the Puritan "witch hunts" of Salem, Massachusetts?

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  1. A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

  2. The Crucibleby Arthur Miller

  3. Strange Interludeby Eugene O'Neill

  4. Angels in Americaby Tony Kushner

  5. Assassins by Stephen Sondheim

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Crucibleby Arthur Miller

All of the following Cold War ideas involved Europe except ________.

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  1. the Truman Doctrine

  2. the domino theory

  3. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

  4. containment

  5. detente

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cold War ideas involved Europe except the domino theory.

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to ___________.

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  1. rebuild European economies with a recovery program

  2. assist the agricultural economies of Latin America

  3. give aid to those communist nations that agreed to adopt democracy

  4. provide military aid to South Vietnam

  5. place Japan under a "nuclear umbrella"

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to rebuild European economies with a recovery program.

At the Yalta Conference of 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was most worried about the views expressed by _________.

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  1. Joseph Stalin on Eastern Europe

  2. Charles de Gaulle on Western Europe

  3. Winston Churchill on the Irish question

  4. Mao Zedong on Chinese relations with Japan

  5. Kim II Sung on the unification of Korea

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

At the Yalta Conference of 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was most worried about the views expressed by Joseph Stalin on Eastern Europe.

Which chief justice of the Supreme Court was said to be the leader of a very activist court?

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  1. William Rehnquist

  2. Earl Warren

  3. Felix Frankfurter

  4. Roger Taney

  5. Warren Burger

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Earl Warren.