hist ch.23

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Which civil rights measure was enacted during Truman's administration?

Desegregation of the armed forces

Which of the following is true regarding Mao Zedong in 1949?

He led a successful communist revolution in China.

Which of the following is accurate regarding the Korean War?

It ended in a stalemate.

Which of the following is accurate regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

It included freedom of speech and religion.

Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a pro communist government in Poland in 1945?

Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.

What piece of American legislation stated that union leaders had to swear an oath that they were not communists?

Taft-Hartley Act

What set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?

The Truman Doctrine

Why did France and other Europeans understand NATO as a form of double containment?

The pact would guard against Soviet aggression as well as the resurgence of a powerful Germany.

What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?

They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.

Which of the following is true about the Dixiecrats?

They opposed desegregation in the South

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal included:

a national health insurance plan.

Joseph McCarthy's downfall came as a result of:

his hearings on the Defense Department.

The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement:

included government action against black leaders.

The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in:

the Middle East, when Soviet troops occupied northern Iran seeking access to oil fields.

Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history:

women's suffrage.


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