Ush chapter 23 study guide

What event caused Stalin to blockade West Berlin in 1949?

Allied attempts to unify West Germany

Which of the following was not a Communist country?

Austria

What nickname was given to the conservative southern Democrats who joined the States' Rights Party in 1948?

Dixiecrats

Commander of the UN military forces in Korea

Douglas MacArthur

Advocated the New Frontier

John F. Kennedy

Which of the following people did not have Communist ties?

Joseph McCarthy

Where was the most dramatic standoff over the desegregation of public schools?

Little Rock, Arkansas

Communist leader of China

Mao Zedong

What was the large civil rights protest where Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech?

March on Washington

helped restore the economies of Western Europe

Marshall Plan

What term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo?

McCarthyism

anti-Communist leader in South Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis?

Nikita Khrushchev

What was the name given to the trials of Nazi war criminals?

Nuremberg Trials

True or false: Even though the Democratic Party was split three ways during the 1948 election, Truman still won.

True

What government organization was formed to send skilled volunteers overseas to help underdeveloped nations?.

Peace Corps

Which of the following is not related to the United Nations?

Peace Corps

Describe the major conflicts that occurred between the two sides in the Cold War.

President Truman's containment strategy was a response to the Soviet presence in Eastern Europe. Chiang Kai-shek was forced to evacuate to Taiwan, where he was overthrown by Mao Zedong. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded by twelve non-communist countries (NATO).

What decision was rendered in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?

Public schools should not be segregated by race

What was the name for a widespread fear of communism that occurred after World War I and after World War II?

Red Scare

Which of the following men was not a presidential candidate in the election of 1948?

Richard Nixon

Permanent members of which agency have veto power?

Security Council

Choose one of the presidential administrations discussed in the chapter and assess it.

The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, served in office from January 20, 1961, to his assassination on November 22, 1963. Kennedy pushed for legislation to reduce taxes, safeguard the unemployed, raise the minimum wage, and rev up the real estate and commercial sectors in order to boost the economy. Kennedy anticipated that these actions would spark an economic upswing that would extend through the late 1960s.

"Frozen Chosin" was a

brave fight near a reservoir where American soldiers were attacked by the Chinese.

Which phrase best describes postwar society in America?

consumer culture

belief in helping businesses while helping human beings

dynamic conservatism

used spies to gain information on foreign affairs

Central Intelligence Agency

Nationalist leader of China

Chiang Kai-shek

postwar tension between the United States and the Soviet Union

Cold War

Policy of resistance to continuing Communist aggression

Containment

Advocated the Fair Deal

Harry Truman

What enduring transportation program did Eisenhower institute?

Interstate Highway System

Separation of Eastern Europe from the West

Iron Curtain

The Truman Doctrine was developed when the Soviets attempted to gain control of Greece and

turkey

The objective of the Taft-Hartley Act was to

weaken unions

What 1961 operation against Communist Cuba was a disaster?

Bay of Pigs

What did East Germany begin building in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West?

Berlin Wall

Advocated "Dynamic Conservatism"

Dwight Eisenhower

True or false: Harry Truman came to the presidency with more foreign policy experience than any other president in the twentieth century.

False

True or false: In 1949, the United States recognized Mao Zedong's government on the mainland as the "real" China.

False

True or false: Joseph McCarthy proved the existence of several Communists in the State Department.

False

True or false: President Kennedy brought the nation substantially new programs in education, medical care for the elderly, and civil rights.

False

True or false: The United Nations has proved to be a highly successful mediator and preserver of world peace.

False

True or false: The United States returned to its isolationist policies following World War II.

False

True or false: The Warsaw Pact was organized before NATO was formed.

False

The National Security Act (1947) created all the following except the

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Communist leader of Cuba

Fidel Castro

How did the civil rights movement affect postwar America?

Following the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate educational facilities were fundamentally unequal," segregated schools had to close. Martin Luther King Jr. garnered notoriety and charisma within the cause. A significant civil rights bill had been sent to Congress two months before to the march.

Communist leader in North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

What weapon developed by the United States in 1952 was far more powerful than the atomic bomb?

Hydrogen bomb