1.Which phrases describe jobs Truman had before he became president?
Choose all answers that are correct.
A)Army officer in World War I
B)High school principal
C)Shopkeeper
D)Farmer
2.Which men were two of Truman's role models?
A)John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy
B)Calvin Coolidge and Theodore Roosevelt
C)Thomas Harding and Ronald Reagan
D)Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln
3.What had Winston Churchill done to win acclaim and respect in Britain and the United States before he gave his iron curtain speech in Missouri?
A)He worked with scientists to develop the atomic bomb.
B)He led Allied forces in the D-Day invasion.
C)He served as prime minister of Great Britain during World War II .
D)He wrote the Treaty of Versailles after World War I .
4.What did the term iron curtain refer to?
A)The division between communist and noncommunist Europe
B)The war between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
C)Stalin's powerful army of tanks and armor
D)Churchill's determination to defeat communism
5.Many people in communist countries were unhappy and dissatisfied with communism.
Which statements describe evidence of people's dissatisfaction with communism?
Choose all answers that are correct.
A)People revolted.
B)People wanted to leave the country but couldn't.
C)Communist countries did not guard their border crossings.
6.What was the Truman Doctrine?
A)The U. S. policy that refused aid to any country threatened by communism
B)U. S. policy that guaranteed aid to any nation threatened by communism
C)The speech Truman gave Congress in which he recognized the threat Stalin posed
D)The idea that communism would never be able to spread beyond Asia and Eastern Europe
7. What was it about Truman's background that helped make him a good president?
A)He had experience in a wide variety of jobs.
B)He was a close friend of FDR's and learned a lot from him.
C)He spent his entire adult life as a public servant.
D)He wrote many books on the history of American government