Postwar Diplomacy Practice Test

A secondary-source excerpt about 1945–1948 diplomacy argues that U.S. officials increasingly framed international politics as a struggle between “free peoples” and authoritarian systems, using this language to build domestic support for overseas commitments. Which consequence most directly followed from this rhetorical shift?

A secondary-source excerpt on the United Nations’ early years (1945–1948) argues that the organization’s structure reflected great-power realities: the Security Council’s permanent members could block collective action, often preventing decisive responses to crises involving the major powers. Which feature of the UN most directly illustrates the excerpt’s point?