A-freaking-PUSH chapter 27* *with a cameo from chapter 28

Of the following, the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss primarily helped the political career of

a. Richard Nixon

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

a. permitted the "union shop"

During the Korean War, the Truman administration faced major strikes in the industries of

a. rail and steel

In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying of

a. the Soviet Union

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

a. the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years

All the following statements regarding the "zones of occupation" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that

c. all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control

Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt

e. became increasingly concerned, though not without hope, that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements

In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included

a. Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon

Joseph McCarthy burst into national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the

a. State Department

In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca

a. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally

The election of 1952 saw

a. a contest between two war heroes, neither of whom had ever held elective office

In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for

a. each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others

In the 1948 presidential election,

a. early polls had seemed to indicate that Harry Truman would lose

US aid through the Marshall Plan

a. was offered to the Soviet Union

In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

b. Poland

In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

b. Winston Churchill

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were

b. accused of passing American secrets to its enemies

In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

b. airlifting supplies to West Berlin

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

b. an end to public housing

The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by

b. calling on the United Nations to intervene

The Supreme Court case of Shelly v. Kraemer (1948) dealt a blow to

b. housing discrimination

In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur

b. publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea

In 1945, when the US Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it

b. quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority

In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was

b. the Democratic Party

The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

b. the US must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world

The result of the election of 1952 saw

b. the end to a long period of Democratic dominance

The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the

c. military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by

c. ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees

President Harry Truman's actions after the 1946 election included

c. proposing a major civil rights bill

The 1946 elections

c. saw Republicans win control of both houses of Congress

All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that

c. the United States left Korea in 1946

As a result of the Korean War, the

d. American public believed there was something wrong with the United States

All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT that

d. Hiss was convicted of espionage

President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union

d. after his first few days in office

In 1949, President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass

d. aid for public housing

The US was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to

d. both a humanitarian concern for the European people, and a desire to create strong European markets for American goods

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

d. gave economic and education subsidies to veterans

The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the

e. creation of a unified West Germany

The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was

e. criticism of President Truman

A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would

e. in the long run, do more good than harm

During the 1950s, the general economic conditions of the United States included

e. low unemployment

The McCarran Internal Security Act

e. required communist organizations to register with the government

Following WWII, the great majority of working American women

e. wanted to keep working

In 1945, when Harry Truman became president, he

a. had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs

In the years immediately following WWII, the US policy toward Asia led

a. to US military intervention in China to fight communist advances there

During the mid-1940s, the American economy

a. was plagued by serious inflation

The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after WWII

a. was pro-Western

In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by

c. beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees

When Joseph McCarthy first leveled charges of communist infiltration in the government, he was a

c. first-term Republican senator

Following WWII, the American economy

c. grew between 1945 and 1975, nearly ten times faster than the population

During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government

c. he never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth rate in the United States

c. led to a doubling of the nation's population in this period

By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

c. little popular support

In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

d. both was created in response to the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact, and declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference

d. it was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War

The American invasion at Inchon during the Korean War

d. prompted President Truman to try to push communists out of North Korea

During the 1950s the region of the United States that experienced the most dramatic change as a result of economic growth was

d. the West

At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on

e. All these answers are correct

In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

e. All these answers are correct

The National Security Act of 1947

e. All these answers are correct

At the Tehran Conference in late 1943

e. Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months

In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action

e. tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president