Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26

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Document 26-1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II

Document 26-2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment

Document 26-3: Cold War Blueprint

Document 26-4: Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists

Document 26-5: A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. Marshall believed that the best way to prepare the United States for another conflict was to follow George Washington's suggestion and establish a system of universal military training. Trainees could later be called upon to serve if the country was drawn into war.

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. George Kennan described Soviet communist expansion as a more dangerous version of familiar defensive Russian nationalism.

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. NSC-68 pointed to the collapse of the British, French, and other empires as the central historical development that explained the global nature of the contest between Soviet and American influence.

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. Senator McCarthy said "it has not been the less fortunate or members of minority groups who have been selling this Nation out, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer the finest homes, the finest college education, and the finest jobs in Government we can give."

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. Donald M. Griffith's platoon was experimental in that it was a desegregated unit consisting of whites, African Americans, and other minorities.

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. Marshall focused on military preparedness, while Kennan focused primarily on diplomatic and political strategies of containment.

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. George Kennan worried about the paranoid politics of the Soviets but not their nuclear capabilities. For the authors of NSC-68, the nuclear danger of the Soviet Union was an important factor.