Author Question: Americans began to suspect communist infiltration everywhere when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed ... (Read 79 times)

Metfan725 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The Truman administration believed that it needed to defend South Korea against North Korean invasion for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) a belief that inaction would be like the appeasement of Britain and France against Nazi aggression leading to World War II.
B) a belief that the United States needed to maintain the Truman Doctrine.
C) a belief that Korea should not be allowed to become a communist nation.
D) a belief that the defense of Korea was vital to U.S. peace and security.

Question 2

In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea under the leadership of a communist dictator named

A) Kim Jong-Il.
B) Kim Jong-Un.
C) Kim Il-Sung.
D) Syngman Rhee.

Question 3

The Hollywood Ten, a group of actors accused by the House Committee on Un-American Activities of being communists, refused to testify because they claimed that the government hearings

A) endangered their ability to gain future roles in film.
B) threatened their First Amendment rights of free speech.
C) violated their Fifth Amendment right not to testify against themselves.
D) were illegal and an attempt by the committee to gain national attention in order to help their chances for reelection.

Question 4

Which of the following is TRUE of the second Red Scare?

A) It led to a decrease in anti-Semitism in the United States.
B) It only affected the uneducated and poor.
C) It resulted in lifelong success for Joseph McCarthy.
D) It affected labor unions and educators.

Question 5

Americans began to suspect communist infiltration everywhere when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that

A) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Soviet spies and had passed atomic secrets to the Soviets.
B) he had a list of active Communist Party members who worked for the United States government.
C) FDR's New Deal had been an attempt to convert the United States to communism.
D) the Hollywood movie industry had been taken over by communists and was trying to convert Americans to communism through subliminal messages.