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    Question 1: Which of these European nations did not come under Soviet domination in the five years following the end of World War Two?
    A. Romania
    B. Yugoslavia
    C. Czechoslovakia
    D. Poland
    Question 2: In 1946 George Kennan, a Russian specialist in the US embassy in Moscow, sent a long telegram to Washington. His telegram was very persuasive and is given much credit for the US adopting this kind of policy.
    A. policy of conciliation
    B. policy of confrontation
    C. policy of containment
    D. policy of isolationism
    Question 3: The Marshall Plan of 1947 offered massive economic aid to help war-devastated nations in Europe. However, communist controlled Eastern Europe received none of the aid for what reason?
    A. The US Congress stipulated that no aid could be given to communist nations.
    B. Western European nations refused to participate in the plan if Eastern European communist nations were included.
    C. The Soviet dictator Stalin refused to allow any communist controlled nation of Eastern Europe to receive Marshall Plan aid
    D. War damage in Eastern Europe was relatively small.
    Question 4: What was the main purpose of the Truman Doctrine, that was first announced in 1947?
    A. containment of communism
    B. US support for the United Nations Organization for maintaining world peace
    C. keeping the US isolated from conflicts in Europe and Asia
    D. economic aid to European allies and Japan
    Question 5: Why did President Truman relieve General MacArthur of command of UN forces in the Korean War?
    A. because MacArthur wanted to withdraw all UN forces below the 38th parallel in Korea
    B. because MacArthur publicly criticized his commander-in-chiefs (President Trumans) policy of limited war in Korea
    C. because MacArthur refused to allow bombing attacks on communist bases in China
    D. because MacArthur advocated counterattacking communist forces in Europe to relieve pressure on Korea
    Question 6: Who did Soviet leader Joseph Stalin appoint as his successor before his death in 1953?
    A. Nobody
    B. Khrushchev
    C. Bulganin
    D. Beria
    Question 7: How long did the United States keep the monopoly on the atomic bomb?
    A. four years until 1949
    B. seven years until 1952
    C. one year until 1946
    D. ten years until 1955
    Question 8: Which of the following is the best reason why the KMT (Nationalists) under Chiang Kai-shek were defeated by the communists in the civil war following World War Two and forced to flee to Taiwan in 1949?
    A. The only support for the KMT was from Chinese peasants.
    B. The US refused to give any aid to the KMT.
    C. The communist forces greatly outnumbered the KTM and were better equipped.
    D. There was much corruption and inefficiency in the KMT leadership.
    Question 9: Name the military alliance made up of the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe.
    A. Commintern
    B. The Moscow Treaty Organization
    C. The Warsaw Pact
    D. The Alliance of Socialist Nations
    Question 10: What two US Presidents served during the first decade of the Cold War?
    A. Roosevelt, Truman
    B. Eisenhower, Kennedy
    C. Kennedy, Nixon
    D. Truman, Eisenhower
    Question 11: What European nation received US aid to try to put down the communist insurgency in Indochina in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
    A. Britain
    B. Netherlands
    C. Belgium
    D. France
    Question 12: For a few years in the mid-1950s relations between the Soviet Union and the United States became less tense. What is this period of time called?
    A. the thaw
    B. the age of reason
    C. detente
    D. the good years
    Question 13: Which of these were known as Stalins Organs?
    A. DPM
    B. The MIG-3 fighter
    C. Katyusha Rocket Launchers
    D. The T-34 tank
    Question 14: Who was in charge of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade during operation Market Garden?
    A. Major General Roy Urquhart
    B. Major General Sosabowski
    C. Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks
    D. Brigadier General Hackett
    Question 15: How many Americans were killed in the capture of Makin Atoll in 1943?
    A. 218
    B. 66
    C. 37
    D. 152