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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speech "Loyal Opposition", how many years was it since the Great War in Europe came to an end?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 22 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 10 years.

2. What organization required a nuclear backdrop far beyond the capability of any Western European nation to supply?
(a) NAACP.
(b) Peace Corps.
(c) NATO.
(d) United Nations.

3. According to Eisenhower, what was a continuing imperative with mutual honor and confidence?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Disarmament.
(c) War.
(d) Hatred.

4. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?
(a) Love.
(b) Nature.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

5. According to Douglas MacArthur, what was considered to be a "global threat"?
(a) The Nazi Regime.
(b) Recession.
(c) Nuclear war.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held in 1936?

2. What did Winston Churchill say is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries in his "An Iron Curtain has Descended" speech?

3. Who abolished democratic institutions in France and became a totalitarian chief?

4. Who was the American poet that was Ambassador to the Court from 1880-1885?

5. What country was founded on the principles not to oppress the undefended, nor fear the aggressive?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Nixon, what did the oath of the President mean?

2. What did democracy mean to James Bryant Conant?

3. What was Einstein's feelings on peace?

4. What was the principal mission of the United Nations?

5. Describe the phrase used by John F. Kennedy to call the people of the U.S. and the world to action.

6. Describe General Goethals.

7. What three elements represented the five members that completed the most important part of a war cabinet?

8. Discuss the difference between merchants and ministers.

9. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

10. Describe the impatience of the American people in the chapter "International Affairs and the United States".

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