Chapter 15-17

In 1947, President Truman told Congress that the United States could not realize its postwar objectives unless we were willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This policy was first implemented in?:

Greece and Turkey.

Who discovered the vaccine for polio?

Jonas Salk

At the beginning of the Cold War, U. S. policy toward the Soviet Union tended to follow the ideas of George F. Kennan, that is?:

a policy of containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies.

The removal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of the United States-United Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional principle of?:

civilian control of the military.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. This statement by John F. kennedy best supports a foreign policy of?:

containment.

Harry Truman aided the cause of civil rights by?:

desegregating the armed forces.

Critics of McCarthyism in the 1950s stressed the idea that?:

fears of subversion can lead to the erosion of constitutional liberties.

The main economic problem faced by President Truman in his first term was?:

inflation

Which of the following is true of the Eisenhower administration's termination policy?:

it led to the withdrawal of federal benefits from many Indian tribes.

The "G. I. Bill of Rights" refers to?:

legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education, unemployment compensation, loans for home building, and provisions for medical care of veterans.

The Marshall Plan could be be understood as part of an American desire to?:

make communism less appealing to Europeans creating economic prosperity.

Most of Truman's Fair Deal program?:

met defeat at the hands of a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats.

The Taft-Harley Act of 1947 provided for all of the following EXCEPT?:

permitting union contributions to political campaigns.

John Foster Dulles is most closely associated with the?:

policy of mutually assured destruction.

The House Un-American Activities Committee was?:

responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.

The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because?

the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made.

The legal basis for Truman's order for American air and naval forces to support South Korea was?:

the United Nations Charter.

The case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) concerned?:

the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.

In 1960 which of the following contributed most directly to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's cancellation of a scheduled summit meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower?:

the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.

Both the New Frontier and the Great Society shared the idea that?:

the federal government should meet the economic and social needs of the less fortunate.

In his farewell address in January 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American people against?:

the influence of the military-industrial complex.

Which of the following is an idea of Woodrow Wilson's that came to be an accepted part of United States foreign policy after 1945?:

the security of the United States is best preserved through collective security.

Supporters of the Warren Court's decisions in the 1960s believed that persons accused of crimes?:

were entitled to the full protection of the Bill of Rights.

The Truman administration's decision to oppose the invasion of South Korea by North Korea in June, 1950 was made?:

without congressional approval.