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The main aim of N.A.T.O. was _______.

  1. To spread socialism in western countries

  2. To stop the spread communism

  3. To help the far east countries

  4. To assist UNO in establishing world peace


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is formed in 1949 during the cold war. It was a military alliance between the territory of North America and Europe with the purpose to defend each other from the Communist Soviet Union gaining control over their nation. 

What is the capital of Israel?

  1. Palestine

  2. Jerusalem

  3. Vatican City

  4. Tel Aviv


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel as per the government of Israel. But most of the world nations is yet to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The Potsdam Conference provided for all the following except:

  1. The division of Germany into four occupied zones

  2. The payment of reparations to the Allies

  3. The reorganization of the Soviet government

  4. The acknowledgment that Poland could keep the German territory it had claimed

  5. The conversion of the German economy to agriculture and light industry


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945 . it stood for all except the reorganization of the Soviet government

The Cold War ended primarily because ________.

  1. Germans destroyed the Berlin Wall

  2. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced new policies

  3. The United States defeated communism in Vietnam

  4. The United States created a rebel army in Nicaragua

  5. The workers of Poland staged a series of strikes


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Cold War ended primarily because Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced new policies.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." The phrase "iron curtain," coined in 1947, refers to the:

  1. Marshall Plan, which provided millions of dollars in U.S. aid to any nation in Europe that requested it

  2. Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II

  3. borderline between nations under Soviet communist influence and the rest of the world

  4. borderline between Northern and Southern Europe

  5. concrete wall that divided East Berlin from West Berlin


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The phrase "iron curtain," coined in 1947, refers to the:borderline between nations under Soviet communist influence and the rest of the world.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to keep them from leaving us. The speaker most likely made this speech during which of the following conflicts?

  1. World War I

  2. World War II

  3. Cold War

  4. Korean War

  5. Vietnam War


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cold War- The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II.

The GI Bill of Rights altered U.S. society by _______.

  1. Admitting women to the U.S. military and naval academies

  2. Making it possible for millions of veterans to attend college

  3. Integrating the armed forces

  4. Guaranteeing civilian employment to all veterans

  5. Creating the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Making it possible for millions of veterans to attend college.

Which of the following is a classic American novel of adolescent rebellion?

  1. Moby-Dickby Herman Melville

  2. The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger

  3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  4. My ntonia by Willa Cather

  5. The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger.

The Potsdam Conference was convened in July 1945 so that _______.

  1. Allied leaders could decide how to handle postwar Germany

  2. Allied leaders could determine how to handle the occupation of Japan

  3. The Soviet Union and the United States could decide how to divide China

  4. Plans could be made for the Soviet Union to invade Japan

  5. Japan and the United States could draw up a peace agreement


Correct Option: A

I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the state department. This statement began a brief period in U.S. history that became known for ______.

  1. Reform

  2. Reconstruction

  3. McCarthyism

  4. Watergate

  5. Reaganomics


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy  and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s.