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The Onset of the Cold War
Questions on final exam. Chapter 28.
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Undergraduate 1
07/11/2010

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Identify the conference where the victorious Allied powers decided to take reparations from their own occupation zones in Germany.
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Potsdam Conference
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Name the crucial issue discussed at the Potsdam Conference.
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The country being treated as an economic unit
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Know the fundamental disagreement at the beginning of the Cold War.
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Who would control post-war Europe
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Identify the purpose(s) of the Truman Doctrine.
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United States was committed to support free people everywhere who were resisting subjugation by communist attack or rebellion
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Know the basis for the Marshall Plan.
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Financial aid
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Identify the year in which the NATO Treaty was signed.
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April 4th, 1949
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Know the response to the NATO Treaty.
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Caused a debate
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Identify the main Soviet response to containment.
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Cut off all rail and highway traffic
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Know President Truman's response to the Soviet Union actions in Berlin in 1948.
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United States carried out a massive effort to supply 2 million Berlin citizens with food, fuel and other resources
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Identify what the National Securtiy Act of 1947 established.
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Department of Defense; army, navy, and air force
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Identify the purpose(s) of the defense policy statement known as the NSC-68.
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Overcome Soviet Union threat
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Know American policy toward Japan after World War II.
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Denied Soviet Union any role in reconstruction
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Know where North Korea stood, politically, at the beginning of the Korean War.
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Communism
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Identify the most sinificant result(s) of the Korean War.
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Massive American rearmament
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Identify the leader of the Doxiecrats in the election of 1948.
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Strom Thurmond
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Name the case that became the most famous disclosure of espionage activities in the United States government in the late 1940's.
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Russians had detonated their first atomic bomb, the end of America's nuclear monopoly was blamed on Soviet espionage
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Name the leading figure of the Red Scare of the early 1950s.
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McCarthy
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Identify President Eisenhower's Secretary of State.
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John Foster Dulles
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Name Joseph Stalin's successor.
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