Cold War

Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to?

airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year.

During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States?

continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost.

Harry Truman aided the cause of civil rights by?

desegregating the armed forces.

The main economic problem faced by President Truman in his first term was?

inflation.

Under President Truman, the Department of Justice?

intervened in Supreme Court cases on behalf of organizations seeking to end segregation.

The "G. I. Bill of Rights" refers to?

legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education, unemployment compensation, loans for home building, and provisions for medical care of veterans.

The Marshall Plan could be be understood as part of an American desire to?

make communism less appealing to Europeans creating economic prosperity.

Most of Truman's Fair Deal program?

met defeat at the hands of a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats.

President Truman contributed to the anti-Communist fear after the Second World War by?

ordering investigations into the loyalty of federal employees.

The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because?

the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made.

The legal basis for Truman's order for American air and naval forces to support South Korea was?

the federal Constitution.

While there was a large gap between what Harry Truman said about civil rights and what he was able to do, his greatest accomplishment was in?

using the prestige and visibility of his office to educate the public and set a moral agenda for future civil rights progress.

The Truman administration's decision to oppose the invasion of South Korea by North Korea in June, 1950 was made?

without congressional approval.

In 1947, President Truman told Congress that the United States could not realize its postwar objectives unless we were willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This policy was first implemented in?

Greece and Turkey

All of these statements about the 1948 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT?

Truman was a heavy favorite to defeat his Republican rival, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York.

The essential element of the policy of containment was?

a commitment to holding communism within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

At the beginning of the Cold War, U. S. policy toward the Soviet Union tended to follow the ideas of George F. Kennan, that is?

a policy of containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies.

The removal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of the United States-United Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional principle of?

civilian control of the military.

The Taft-Harley Act of 1947 provided for all of the following EXCEPT?

permitting union contributions to political campaigns.

The House Un-American Activities Committee was?

responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.