Chapter 26
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was strongly opposed by
labor unions
During Eisenhower's presidency, a crisis in the Middle East took place during the 1950s when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ___________________.
nationalized the Suez Canal
The Marshall Plan was created to:
rebuild western and southern Europe to help lessen the growth of communism there
The National Security Act of 1947 created all of the following except the _________________. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Department of Defense the U.S. Air Force the Department of Homeland Security
the Department of Homeland Security
The 1948 Berlin Airlift took place in response to:
the Russians setting up a blockade of the major roads in and out of Berlin
Who did Dwight Eisenhower twice defeat for the presidency during the 1950s?
Adlai Stevenson
During the Cold War, a "U-2" was a(n) __________________. Russian nuclear warhead
American spy plane
Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of ____________________.
China who was overthrown by communist rebels
Mao Zedong was the leader of ____________________.
Communist Chinese rebels who overthrew the nationalist government in 1949
In 1954, _______________ forces suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu, forcing the beginning of peace talks with Vietnamese rebels leading to an eventual pullout by the mid-1950s.
French
The first use of the containment policy (the so-called Truman Doctrine) in action involved U.S. aid to:
Greece and Turkey
In 1956, Russian troops rolled into ______________ in an effort to stifle domestic unrest with communist rule there.
Hungary
Which of the following nations was formally recognized by President Truman in 1948?
Israel
During the late 1940s, ________________ became the first African American baseball player to play major league baseball.
Jackie Robinson
______________________ was Dwight Eisenhower's strong-willed Secretary of State who devised many of the administration's foreign policy positions during the 1950s.
John Foster Dulles
More than any other American politician, __________________ represented the paranoid fears of communist spies existing all around the United States during the 1950s.
Joseph McCarthy
During the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur disagreed with Harry Truman over:
MacArthur's desire to escalate the war by attacking mainland China
____________________ succeeded Josef Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.
Nikita Khrushchev
The Korean War began in 1950 when:
North Korea attacked South Korea
_________________ was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president for two terms during the 1950s.
Richard Nixon
Of the following, who did not oppose Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election?
Socialist Party nominee Eugene Debs
The Korean War ended in 1953 with:
a communist government controlling North Korea and a non-communist government controlling South Korea
Alger Hiss was:
an American government official accused of being a communist spy for the Russians
President Harry Truman responded to the growing hysteria of anti-communist rhetoric and possible infiltration of the American government by communist spies and sympathizers by _________________.
contributing to the hysteria by announcing a rigorous "loyalty program" to investigate and root out potential subversives
The main American reaction to Sputnik was:
creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)