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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. Near what city was the facility that manufactured deadly nerve poison that created waste disposal issues?
(a) Khe Sanh, Vietnam.
(b) Skull Valley, Utah.
(c) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

2. Who said that the United States now has her second opportunity to make the world safe for democracy?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Dorothy Thompson.
(c) Norman Thomas.
(d) Henry Wallace.

3. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?
(a) Peach trees.
(b) Oak trees.
(c) Magnolia trees.
(d) Walnut trees.

4. Which country did Italy receive modest material aid from during the war?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Turkey.
(d) England.

5. Eisenhower stated that a common bind existed between a rice grower in Burma and a wheat planter of what U.S. state?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was one of the most gifted poets in Britain known for his voice, poetry readings and his speeches?

3. What organization required a nuclear backdrop far beyond the capability of any Western European nation to supply?

4. Who was a lawyer and railroad executive that was known for his after-dinner speeches?

5. What battleship did the Japanese formally surrender to the United States on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the difference between merchants and ministers.

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

3. What is the tradition of Irish learning?

4. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

5. How was are international trade relations under Franklin Roosevelt?

6. Describe Henry Watterson's protege.

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

8. What did democracy mean to James Bryant Conant?

9. How did Truman suggest strengthening freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression?

10. Describe Charles de Gaulle's reflections on the last four years in the "Independence for Algeria" speech.

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