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Chapter 29: The American Century

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

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	"Containment" refers to   preventing suburban growth outside city limits preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to smaller countries bent on aggression keeping communism within its existing boundaries preventing integration in southern public schools keeping communism within its existing boundaries

	The Truman Doctrine opposed communist movements in   Jordan and Syria Greece and Turkey Brazil and Argentina France and Italy Guatemala and Honduras

	Problems in the Middle East since 1948 stem from all of the following factors EXCEPT   creation of Israeli state soviet activities in the oil-rich area American reluctance to assist Israel the refusal of most Arab states to recognize the right of Israel to exist the absence of a Palestinian national homeland

	General MacArthur attempted to unite Korea under Western control as far north as   Seoul Inchon Pusan the 38th parallel the Yalu River

	The principal advocate of "massive retaliation" as a deterrent to communist aggression was   George F. Kennan John F. Kennedy George C. Marshall Dean Acheson John Foster Dulles

	Gamal Abdel Nasser was associated with all of the following EXCEPT   construction of the Aswan High Dam nationalization of the Suez Canal recognition of Israel's right to exist close Egyptian-Soviet ties overthrow of Egypt’s King Farouk

	The Taft-Hartley Act did NOT include   a ban on secondary boycotts the outlawing of union shop contracts a federal prohibition against the closed shop banned "closed shop" an eighty-day cooling-off period to avoid strikes

	Alger Hiss went to prison for   espionage conspiracy perjury war crimes tax evasion

	The Civil Rights Act of 1957 provided for all of the following EXCEPT   creation of the Civil Rights Division within the Justice Department the obtaining of injunctions to stop election officials from interfering with blacks seeking to register and vote establishment of the investigatory Civil Rights Commission school desegregation "with all deliberate speed" strengthening of powers of Justice Department and Attorney General in matters of civil rights

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