APUSH-Chapter 23

Which of the following was not a contributing factor behind the rise of the Cold War?

Churchill's call for the construction of a great wall between East and West Germany

Which of the following was not a step toward racial equality in postwar America?

Defeat of Operation Dixie

The United Nations committee which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was led by:

Eleanor Roosevelt.

6 that lay the foundation for what became known as the policy of "containment"?

George F. Kennan

In the context of postwar Civil Rights, what major-league baseball player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and by so doing challenged the longstanding exclusion of black players from major-league baseball?

Jackie Robinson

Who was the United States senator from Wisconsin who announced in February 1950 that he had a list of 205 communists working for the State Department, and later entered the political vocabulary as a shorthand for character assassination, guilt by association, and abuse of power in the name of anti-communism?

Joseph R. McCarthy

The first hot war of the Cold War--beginning in June 1950--took place in:

Korea

The 1950 National Security Council manifesto that called for a permanent military build-up to enable the United States to pursue a global crusade against communism, describing the Cold War as an epic struggle between "the idea of freedom" and the "idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin" was:

NSC-68.

What was the name of the AFL and CIO campaign to bring unionization to the South, by which more than 200 labor organizations entered the region in an effort to organize workers?

Operation Dixie

Two outspoken critics of the domestic anticommunist crusade were:

Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Which is not true of the Korean War (1950-1953):

President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur's push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

Which was not a development of 1949?

The Soviets formalized their own eastern European alliance, the Warsaw Pact.

Which of the following was not a key provision of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act?

Unions cannot discriminate on the basis of race.

The Truman Doctrine articulated in March 1947:

asserted that the United States, as the leader of the "free world," must take up responsibility for supporting "freedom-loving peoples" wherever communism threatened them.

Which of the following was not a common target of the anticommunist crusade?

laissez-faire conservatism

Which of the following was not a dramatic feature of the 1948 presidential election?

lively debate between supporters and critics of the Korean War

In June 1948, when the United States, Britain, and France introduced a separate currency in their zones of control in the city of Berlin, the Soviet Union responded with:

the Berlin Blockade.

President Harry S. Truman's program that focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans--calling on Congress to increase the middle wage, enact a program of national health insurance, and expand public housing, social security, and aid to education--was:

the Fair Deal.

The June 1947 United States foreign-policy initiative that envisioned a New Deal for Europe, and pledged billions of dollars to finance European economic recovery was:

the Marshall Plan.

What was the 1947 law that sought to reverse gains made by organized labor in the preceding decade, and authorized the president to suspend strikes by ordering an 80-day cooling-off period, banned sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts, outlawed the closed shop, and authorized states to pass "right to work" laws?

the Taft-Hartley Act

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 1948 United Nations-approved document that called for a range of rights to be enjoyed by people everywhere, including freedom of speech and religion, as well as social and economic entitlements, including the right to an adequate standard of living, access to adequate housing, education, and medical care was called:

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United States referred to:

the policy by which the United States committed itself to preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.