Exam 3

William Levitt with the help of G.I. Bill gave many Americans the opportunity to

Buy a home

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

Fascism, Nazism, Communism

Jacob Arbenz Guzman

Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944 to 1951. President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. Was ousted in a coup d'etat by the US CIA and was replaced by Colonel Carlos Castillo.

What obstacle did harry Truman face when he assumed the presidency following the death of Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945?

Harry Truman has absolutely no experience

What made Elvis such a popular celebrity

He brought rhythms and sexual provocative movements of black musicians to the white audiences

How did President Dwight D Eisenhower surpass the new deal and government involvement in the economy

He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways

What was so ironic about Dean Acheson's speech to the Delta counsel in 1947?

He talked about how people should exercise their liberties even though he didn't

During the Eisenhower administration the US Soviet relations stayed about

Improved somewhat after the end of the Korean War and death of Stalin

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

In the climate of anticommunist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to Socialism

How did American companies contribute to the influx of Puerto Rican migrants by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the 1950s

Increasing control of land by US sugar company is on the island play small tobacco and coffee farmers of the island and into a search of jobs on the mainland

To libertarian conservative's freedom meant

Individual autonomy limited government unregulated capitalism

What made the Army-McCarthy hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950s?

It was deeply political and controversial

What event did President John F Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration

Launch of the Soviet satellite sputnik

The new conservatives were also known as

Liberal conservatism

Dwight D Eisenhower was there was elected president in 1952 and part because he

Manifested a public image of fatherly warmth

What about the golden age of capitalism between 1946 and 1960 was most beneficial for Americans?

Most monetary gains reached ordinary citizens through rising wages

The policy of containment can best be described as

Preventing the spread of communism worldwide

New conservatives trust the government to protect

Regulate personal behavior

Why where American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated

Residence brokers and realtors dealt contracts and mortgages the boarded the sale to non-white residence

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

She chaired the committee which drafted the "United Nations Universal declaration of human rights"

Most likely why did the US supreme court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown versus Board of Education in 1954

Some justices on the court fear the outbreak of widespread violence was such a bold ruling

Who were the Dixiecrats?

Southern Democrats

Ngo Dinh Diem

Surrender

The Third World

Term applied to a group of "developing" or "underdeveloped" countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War.

After World War II the only nation that could rival the US was

The Soviet Union

Why did the US allow west Germany to become part of an Alliance less than 10 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany

The Success of the Soviet detonation of a nuclear bond underlined the importance of a military united West

How did the freedom train suggest the meaning of freedom remained controversial?

The Wagner act the law guaranteeing workers right to form unions was removed from inclusion in documents display

The charges against what organization led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954?

The army

The social contract was excepted by

The citizens

What day of conservatives of the 1950s their political unity

The common enemies of Soviet union and federal government

Why was it unlikely that the Soviet union was going to embark on a new military campaign in the years following World War II?

The communist nation had suffered more than 20 million casualties, along with immense devestation

Why did the Eisenhower administration embrace the doctrine of massive retaliation

The constant threat of mutually assured destruction under the doctrine made for more cautious diplomacy

How have the political climate change in the south during World War II in the early cold war years?

The high concentration of prisoner of war camps in region had these Southerners sorry in foreign affairs

Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946?

The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers' real income

Why did the US back away from pressuring it's European allies to grants of government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

The successful Soviet denotation of a nuclear bond underlined the importance of a military united west

What reason did the Hollywood 10 gift for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?

They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment

Why did the Soviet union strongly support the national independence movements in the new Third World

They hoped to convince new nations to ally themselves with the eastern bloc against European and American imperialists

How did black organizations employee the language of the cold war?

They noted how the Russians could use racism to damage Americas image abroad given its hypocrisy about the meaning of freedom at home

Why did US policy makers agreed 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

Why did anti-Communist harry Truman veto the McCarran-Walter Act?

Truman had become alarmed at the excess of the anti-Communist crusade

How did the US respond to Joseph Stalans blockade around Berlin?

Truman order that supplies be brought to Berlin via air lift

Dwight D Eisenhower appointed which kind of individuals into his cabinet

Wealthy businessman to run the government like an efficient business

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

Woman suffrage

The impact of the cold war on American culture was

a) especially evident in the movies.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation was part of

Declare that any Soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack

Why was it in evitable that the US and Soviet union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended?

Historically both nations had never shared long-term interests or values

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

The idea of peaceful civil disobedience

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

They were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking in many quality Aries necessary to fight communism

In his 1961 farewell address president Eisenhower warned Americans about

military-industrial complex

Operation Dixie was

the postwar Union campaign in the South.