History chapter 23
All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:
Cold War military spending weakened the economy.
All of the following statements are true of the Fair Deal EXCEPT:
Congress passed Truman's Fair Deal to raise the standard of living for Americans.
Jackie Robinson
First black Major League Baseball player
Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?
A permanent military buildup and a global application of containment.
Who did Whittaker Chambers accuse of being a Soviet spy during a HUAC hearing?
Alger Hiss.
How did the NAACP manage to change the political landscape in the South between 1940 and 1952?
Its voter registration drive increased the number of Southern black registered voters sevenfold.
Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?
Philippines.
Who did the States' Rights Party nominate for president in 1948?
Strom Thurmond.
All of the following are enactments of the policy of containment except
The Warsaw Pact
How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift.
Organized labor emerged as:
a major supporter of the foreign policy of the Cold War.
President Truman's Fair Deal included:
a national health insurance plan
In 1948, the Progressive Party:
advocated expanded social welfare programs.
Dennis v. United States:
allowed the deportation of suspected communists.
The McCarran-Walter Act:
authorized the deportation of communists, including naturalized citizens.
NSC-68:
called for a massive increase in U.S. military forces.
The Truman Doctrine:
committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO):
defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia
When World War II ended:
demobilization proceeded quickly
Operation Wetback:
deported illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods.
The Korean War:
ended in a stalemate.
The impact of the Cold War on American culture was:
especially evident in the movies.
The movements for colonial independence:
generally had U.S. support.
Joseph McCarthy's downfall came as a result of:
his hearings on the Defense Department.
In 1948, the Soviets began the Berlin Blockade:
in response to the creation of West Germany.
The principle of human rights—the idea of basic rights belonging to all persons because they are human—was introduced into international relations:
in the revolutionary period of the late eighteenth century.
The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement:
included government action against black leaders.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
ncluded freedom of speech and religion.
The Dixiecrats:
opposed desegregation in the South.
The Taft-Hartley Act:
outlawed the closed shop.
After World War II ended, Japan:
received economic assistance from the United States.
President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:
reparations.
The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in:
the Middle East, when Soviet troops occupied northern Iran seeking access to oil fields.
After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:
the Soviet Union
Operation Dixie was:
the postwar union campaign in the South.
The Marshall Plan:
was a U.S.-Soviet program to rebuild Europe.
Joseph McCarthy:
was an embarrassment to his party by 1954.
The 1948 presidential race:
was the last to occur before television forever changed
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:
were executed after a questionable trial.
Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history:
women's suffrage.
Which statement is true about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
All the members pledged mutual defense against any future Soviet attack.
Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?
Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.
Which civil rights measure was enacted during Truman's administration?
Desegregation of the armed forces.
Which 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 them against Soviet aggression as well as against 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.
According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the
United States wascommitted to preventing the spread of communism.
In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired a committee to draft the:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"Militant Liberty" was the code name for a national security agency that:
encouraged Hollywood to produce anticommunist movies.
To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department:
funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.
The "Iron Curtain":
separated the free West from the communist East.