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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. What country was France having issues with in 1962?
(a) Algeria.
(b) Libya.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Tunisia.

2. According to Haile Selassie, which country was the first to be threatened by Fascist Italy?
(a) Algeria.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) France.

3. What did Winston Churchill say is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries in his "An Iron Curtain has Descended" speech?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Peace.

4. Where was the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held in 1936?
(a) Brazilia, Brazil.
(b) Geneva, Switzerland.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Buenos Aires, Argentina.

5. Who delivered the speech comparing the words Nationalism and Internationalism?
(a) Oswaldo Aranha.
(b) Dag Hammarskjold.
(c) Mohandas Ghandi.
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru.

Short Answer Questions

1. The year 1955 celebrated how many years since the United Nations was chartered?

2. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?

3. What program did Truman state we "keep our full weight behind"?

4. According to Fulton Sheen, who said "We are becoming a warlike nation--that is to say, one endowed to a higher degree with virtues of obedience, sacrifice, and dedication to country"?

5. Who was very prominent in the Bolshevist revolution and reported on a Nazi air attack?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

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

4. What were John F. Kennedy's feelings on peace?

5. Describe the true political test according to Stevenson.

6. How did Dorothy Thompson view isolation?

7. Describe General Goethals.

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

9. What were the main forces of the Red Army?

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

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