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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. Who was arrested on the basis of slanderous materials and eventually was killed?
(a) Joseph Stalin.
(b) Nikita Khrushchev.
(c) Comrade Eikhe.
(d) Marshal Zhukov.

2. Who was a British playwright and novelist that delivered the speech "Literature and the Press"?
(a) Lord Cecil.
(b) Lord Bacon.
(c) Sir James Matthew Barrie.
(d) Irvin S. Cobb

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

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

5. Who abolished democratic institutions in France and became a totalitarian chief?
(a) Charles DeGaulle.
(b) Henri Philippe Petain.
(c) Eamon de Valera.
(d) Maxim Litvinov.

Short Answer Questions

1. The arms race was between the United States and what country?

2. According to President Nixon, what title can one receive that was the greatest honor of history?

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

4. Who was thought to be a great lawyer and believed that every man owes a duty to his profession?

5. In the speech, " A Glory has Departed", who was "a glory" referring to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did democracy mean to James Bryant Conant?

3. Describe one's private library according to Phelps.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

9. According to Eisenhower, how did a country produce unity?

10. What was the relationship of prosperity and peace according to Hull?

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