HIST 2112 Module 9 Ch. 27

When the Dixiecrats broke from the Democratic Party in the year ___?___() , the party nominated ___?___() for President of the U.S.

1948 / Thurmond, Strom Thurmond

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

China

The U.S. policy on containment was based on ideas circulated by a diplomat named

George Frost Kennan

The U.S. policy on containment was based on ideas circulated by a diplomat named

George Kennan, Kennan, George Frost Kennan

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism

In the period in which the U.S. practiced "containment"

It helped fund groups that were fighting communists and Soviet-supported insurgents

The Korean conflict, in which the U.S. committed troops to support a United Nations-led police action against North Korea

Occurred in the early 1950s

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded that:

Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

Which of the following was NOT among the primary sources you read/viewed for this module? 1) George Kennan's "Sources of Soviet Conduct" 2) Truman's Statement on the Korean War 3) An excerpt from the Truman Doctrine 4) The NAACP's statement on segregation in the military 5) An excerpt from the Marshall Plan 6) a newsreel about the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the Democratic Party

The NAACP's statement on segregation in the military

"Greece must have assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy. The United States must supply this assistance."The quote above is most likely from which of the below:

The Truman Doctrine

After the allies liberated Europe and won World War II

The USSR began bringing eastern European countries under its control

In the years following World War II, the USSR insisted that it was pursuing legitimate security concerns, but the U.S. worried that its leader Josef Stalin was intent on world domination.

True

Soon after World War II ended, the ___?___organized a communist government in___?___, while the U.S. helped establish a democratic government in South Korea.

USSR, Soviet Union, Soviets / North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:

became the first country to recognize the Jewish state

The Korean War did all of the following EXCEPT: 1) last into Eisenhower's presidency 2) result in more than 2 million total casualties 3) bring about major changes in North Korea and South Korea's boundaries 4) increase fears of domestic Communist subversion 5) leave one part of Korea still Communist

bring about major changes in North Korea and South Korea's boundaries

Soon after World War II, the U.S. proposed to ______________ communism.

contain

Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:

gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:

launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin

In the late 1940s

many Americans worried about the growing power of communist China

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:

order the development of a hydrogen bomb

The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT: 1) provide educational benefits for veterans 2) provide housing loans for veterans 3) help prevent a postwar depression 4) pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military 5) provide medical treatment for veterans

pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition when it became involved in:

peacetime alliances

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in eastern Europe:

proved to be meaningless

State Department official George Kennan:

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies

In early 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:

the State Department

When North Korean communists invaded South Korea:

the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors

In 1948, President Truman desegregated:

the military

Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur:

to preserve civilian control of the military

The U.S. policy on containment

was based on ideas circulated by diplomat George Kennan