HY 121 FINAL ch 23

The United Nations committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was led by

Eleanor Roosevelt.

The formal peace treaty ending the Korean War was the Peace of Paris of 1953.

False

Who was the person who sent the Long Telegram from Moscow in 1946 that lay the foundation for what became known as the policy of "containment"?

George F. Kennan

In the context of postwar civil rights, what baseball player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, challenging the longstanding exclusion of black players from Major League Baseball?

Jackie Robinson

In 1951, a jury convicted this couple of conspiracy to pass secrets concerning the atomic bomb to Soviet agents during World War II.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

This legislation authorized the deportation of immigrants identified as communists, even if they had become citizens.

McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

At the nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, it was revealed that

McCarthy was a bully who browbeat witnesses and made sweeping accusations with no basis in fact.

The Cold War suddenly turned hot in June 1950 in these regions.

North Korea and South Korea

What was the name of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) campaign to bring unionization to the South, by which more than 200 labor organizations entered the region in an effort to organize workers?

Operation Dixie

Two outspoken critics of the domestic anticommunists crusade were

Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Which is not true of the Korean War (1950-1953)?

President Truman acknowledged and accepted General MacArthur's push toward the Chinese border and his threat to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

The young California congressman who first gained national prominence through his membership on the House Un-American Activities Committee was

Richard Nixon

By the early 1950s, state and local laws banning discrimination in employment and housing remained largely unenforced.

True

In 1947 an exhibition of historical documents traveled across the country on what was called the Freedom Train. While the exhibit showcased in many cities, two exceptions were Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama, as both cities insisted on separate viewings of the exhibit by race, a demand of which the organizers of the Freedom Train would not agree.

True

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launched hearings into communist influence in Hollywood, and, in consequence, actors, directors, and screenwriters were blacklisted or jailed.

True

In July 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces.

True

The Truman Doctrine in March 1947

asserted that the United States, as the leader of the "free world," must take up responsibility for supporting "freedom-loving peoples" wherever communism threatened them.

The Truman administration responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

leading efforts to break the blockade by airlifting supplies to the city.

President Harry S. Truman's program that focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans- calling on Congress to increase the middle wage, enact a program of national health insurance, and expand public housing, Social Security, and aid to education- was

the Fair Deal

The House Un-American Activities Committee charged these people with contempt of Congress, serving jail terms of six months to a year.

the Hollywood Ten

The June 1947 United States foreign policy initiative that envisioned a New Deal for Europe, and pledged billions of dollars to finance European economic recovery was

the Marshall Plan

What was the 1947 law that sought to reverse gains made by organized labor in the preceding decade, and authorized the president to suspend strikes by ordering an eighty-day cooling-off period, banned sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts, outlawed the closed shop, and authorized states to pass "right to work" laws?

the Taft-Hartley Act

The 1948 United Nations- approved document that called for a range of rights to be enjoyed by people everywhere, including freedom of speech and religion, as well as social and economic entitlements, including the right to an adequate standard of living, access to adequate housing, education, and medical care was called

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Which of the following was not a step toward racial equality in postwar America?

the defeat of Operation Dixie

"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United States referred to

the policy by which the United States committed itself to preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.