Cold War Foundations Test 2
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- Q1What was the purpose of NSC68?A blueprint for how Truman should deal with Stalin during the Cold Wara plan for how Truman should handle Japan after WWIIa program for the United States to help countries that are fighting off communist takeovers during the Cold WarA blueprint for how Truman should handle communism during the Cold War30s
- Q2How did NSC68 characterize the United States?slave countryawesome countryevil countryfree country30s
- Q3How did NSC68 characterize the Soviet Union?wanting helpwanting wealthwanting slaverywanting freedom30s
- Q4What recommendation did NSC68 give Truman?Put $50 billion into creating bomb shelters for protection from attackPut $50 billion into other countries to get more alliesPut $50 billion into building up our bordersPut $50 billion a year into building up the military30s
- Q5What is America's policy of containment?contain communismdo not let communism spreadattack communist countrieseliminate communism30s
- Q6What was Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain"?a speech Churchill gave in the United Statesa symbolic wall that separated Western Communist Europe from Eastern Democratic Europea symbolic wall that separated Eastern Communist Europe from Western Democratic Europea very heavy drapery30s
- Q7What was Churchill trying to accomplish in his "Sinews of Peace" speech?rally the United States into working with Great Britain against communismrally the United States into making peace with the Soviet Unionrally the United States into attacking the Soviet Unionrally the United States into organizing NATO30s
- Q8What was the purpose of Cold War propaganda?to make one side look like the good guys and the other one appear evilto convince the world that the Soviet Union was the good guyto convince the world that the United States was the good guyto convince the world that the Soviet Union was the bad guy30s
- Q9What stated that the United States would strike first?NSC68National Security Strategyboth30s
- Q10What stated that the United States would negotiate?bothNational Security StrategyNSC6830s
- Q11What stated that the United States should respect the enemy?National Security StrategyNSC68both30s
- Q12What stated that the United States should reform the enemy?National Security StrategybothNSC6830s
- Q13What stated that the United States enemy had known territory?National Security StrategybothNSC6830s
- Q14What stated that the United States will act on its own to win?bothNSC68National Security Strategy30s
- Q15What stated that the enemy had weapons of mass destruction?National Security StrategyNSC68both30s