Chapter 27

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

A. Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.

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

Criticism of president Truman

In 1950, Alger hiss was convicted of spying on the United States

False, Alger Hiss was convicted of spying by the Soviet Union

The Truman doctrine called for the United States to send troops to Greece and turkey

False, the Truman doctrine called the United States to send troops to any countries threatened by Soviet forces or of communist insurrection

The national security act of 1947

Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council.

States were given the right to pass right-to-work laws by the

Taft-Hartley Actmof 1947

In 1947, the first Target of the house un-american committee HUAC was

The movie industry

An integral part of the American policy of cold war containment was to extend American economic aid to the rebuilding of Western Europe

True

At Yalta, negotiators for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed to create a Soviet Union agreed to create a United Nations with a security council in which the powers would have the powers to veto proposed action

True

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies despite public protests in their behalf

True

The "zones of occupation" for postwar Germany left Berlin well inside the Soviet zone

True

The Sovuet responded to the creation of NATO by forming an alliance with communist governments called the pact

True

The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues that a set of loose principles

True

Following world war 2, the great majority of American women

Wanted to keep working

In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,

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

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

after his first few days in office

During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government

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


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