Unit 9 Test USH FIP

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What were the long term goals of the Truman Doctrine?

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to use the United States military to stop the spread of communism into free countries

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In the minds of many Americans, the Marshall Plan pitted capitalism against which of the following? agrarianism, anarchism, libertarianism?

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communism

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What was the ultimate outcome of the Korean War?

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The United States failed to resolve the conflict and the Korean Peninsula remained divided, and hostilities between North and South Korea continued.

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What was the relationship between the Supreme Court decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?

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The Supreme Court's decision in Brown overturned the court's decision in Plessy.

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How did Congress help soldiers returning from fighting in World War II integrate into the domestic economy without causing an unemployment crisis?

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by creating the GI Bill of Rights

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In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy capitalized upon Cold War fears by promising to address which threat to US security? Options: the perceived superiority of the missiles of the USSR, unrestricted Russian immigration to the United States, communist sympathizers living in the United States, the USSR's technological superiority in the space race

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communist sympathizers living in the United States

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How did the US government respond to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1?

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by increasing funding for science and math education

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What was one benefit of the Space Race for average American consumers?

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New technologies developed for the space program became commercially available.

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US involvement in the Vietnam War was based largely on which policy?

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containment

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Why did Fidel Castro allow the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba?

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He sought to prevent US interference in Cuban politics.