Question 1
The U.S. first peacetime military alliance was called the
A) North American Free Trade Agreement.
B) United Nations.
C) European Recovery Act.
D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Question 2
The United States and the Soviet Union shared similar goals for the post-World War II world, as both countries stressed the importance of a rapid post-Nazi German recovery.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Question 3
Which of the following events did NOT help to confirm U.S. belief in the importance of containing the spread of communism?
A) the Soviet detonation of the atomic bomb
B) the fall of China to communism
C) the creation of NATO
D) the North Korean invasion of South Korea
Question 4
The iron curtain dividing Europe, as described by Winston Churchill, was a reference to
A) the Berlin Wall.
B) the post-World War II division of Europe into pro-democratic and pro-communist segments.
C) American efforts to contain communism and prevent it from spreading beyond Eastern Europe.
D) communist secret police's efforts to control the Soviet people.
Iron Oxide
Miocene apes were found throughout Europe, continental Asia, and Africa.
Distribution of Neandertal sites in Europe and western Asia.
Some scholars regard Walt Whitman as a poet of nature, and others, a poet of the body—a reference to
Geopolitical Change of 20th-Century Europe
Core Areas in Preindustrial Europe