QUESTIONS FOR UNIT EIGHT TEST
1. “After the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the end of the Second World War, the United States
deliberately abandoned the wartime policy of collaboration and, exhilarated by the possession of
the
atomic bomb, undertook a course of aggression of its own designed to expel all Soviet influence
from
Eastern Europe . . . [leaving] Moscow no alternative but to take measures in defense of its own
borders.
The result was the Cold War.
Assess the validity of this statement.
2. Assess the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
3. “Even though Lyndon Johnson was not as greatly admired as President Kennedy, he was a
more
effective leader than Kennedy in domestic affairs.”
Assess the validity of this statement.
4. “Although the 1960’s are usually considered the decade of greatest achievement for black civil
rights, the
1940’s and 1950’s were periods of equally important gains.”
Assess the validity of this statement.
5. “The Cold War hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union was inevitable.”
Assess the validity of this statement.
6. To what extent did the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
maintain the
policy of containment of communism developed during the Truman administration?
7. How do you account for the appeal of McCarthyism in the United States in the era following the
Second
World War?
8. “Vice Presidents who have succeeded to the presidency on the death of the President have
been less
