CHapter 23

Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?

Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.

Why did Harry Truman's loyalty review system target homosexuals working for the government?

Homosexuals were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking the manly qualities necessary to fight communism.

How did the Soviet focus on social and economic rights in the Cold War human rights debate affect American attitudes?

In the climate of anti communist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism.

Who were the "Dixiecrats"?

Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."

The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

The Army

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 statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?

a permanent military buildup and a global application of containment

The Truman Doctrine:

committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.

President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:

reparations.

All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:

Cold War military spending weakened the economy.

In the 1950s what did the term "totalitarianism" describe?

Fascism, Nazism, and communism

How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?

Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift.

To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department:

funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.

The policy of "containment" can best be described as:

preventing the spread of communism worldwide.

Operation Wetback:

was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation.

What did Eleanor Roosevelt do of particular significance several years after the war ended?

She chaired the committee which drafted the United Nation's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

Which of the following events did NOT occur after Truman's 1947 speech to Congress

Truman received only immediate, short-term Republican support for his containment policies

The impact of the Cold War on American culture was:

especially evident in the movies.

During the Cold War, Americans:

formed anticommunist groups who pressured public libraries to remove ""un-American" books from their shelves.

The "Iron Curtain":

separated the free West from the communist East.

In the aftermath of World War II:

the majority of returning G.I.s went back to work. and Americans paid more for consumer goods.

Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?

They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

included freedom of speech and religion.

The Taft-Hartley Act:

outlawed the closed shop.

After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:

the Soviet Union.

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

women's suffrage