Chapter 23

Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?

A permanent military buildup and a global application of containment.

States' Rights Party

Dixiecrats

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

Fascism, Nazism, and communism.

Douglas McArthur

Korean war commander

Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government in Poland in 1945?

Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.

Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

The Philippines.

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

The soviet union

How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric?

They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda.

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.

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

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

Fair Deal

Truman's domestic program

The McCarran-Walter Act:

authorized the deportation of communists, including naturalized citizens.

Operation Wetback

deported illegal aliens

Marshall Plan

economic aide to Europe

NATO

first time peace alliance for the U.S.

In 1949, Mao Zedong:

led a successful communist revolution in China

Long Telegram

outlined containment policy

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

preventing the spread of communism worldwide

The "Iron Curtain":

separated the free West from the communist East.