Cold War 1945-1952

1 Which of the following people was convicted and executed for conspiring to commit espionage? Dean Acheson Whittaker Chambers Alger Hiss George Marshall Julius Rosenberg 2 What lesson in recent history impressed Pres. Truman and his advisers and formed a basic diplomatic tenet of his administration? a war on two fronts is difficult to win international peace could only be achieved when the Soviet Union felt secure on its borders the Japanese had an innate national tendency toward competition and aggression appeasement toward aggressive dictators leads not to peace but to greater violence and bloodshed maintaining peace was more important than resisting aggression 3 All of the following were the ways in which the American-Soviet conflict after World War II was waged except economic pressure propaganda and subversion direct military confrontation nuclear intimidation blockade of Berlin 4 The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to help the hungry and homeless of Europe help stop the spread of communism in Europe help expand sales of American goods in Europe all of the above none of the above 5 Alger Hiss charged that Whittaker Chambers had committed espionage in the 1930s by giving Hiss secret State Department documents to be transferred to the Soviet Union was indicted for espionage and, after a first trial ended in a hung jury, was convicted of espionage in the 1950s was accused of being a communist and stealing state secrets in the 1930s, and was convicted of lying under oath described Richard Nixon's campaign for the Senate as "dominated by striped-pants boys from the State Department" was a communist dentist in the army exposed by Sen. McCarthy