Chapter 23: Question 61 + all true and false
T/F Hollywood remained the one voice of protest during the McCarthy era, making films that glorified individualism, socialism, and the questioning of authority.
False
T/F Since he was black, in spite of his great playing ability and character on and off the field, Jackie Robinson failed to win the Rookie of the Year award.
False
T/F The Truman Doctrine was in support of giving billions of dollars for European economic recovery
False
T/F The United States was the first country to approve both covenants of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights
False
T/F The United States won the Korean War
False
T/F: Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful
False
T/F: The Freedom Train contained documents such as the Wagner Act and FDR's Four Freedoms speech
False
T/F "totalitarian" had become a shorthand way of describing those on the other side in the Cold War
True
T/F Both the Taft-Hartley Act and the McCarren-Walter Act passed over Truman's veto
True
T/F Generally speaking, economics and geopolitical interest motivated American foreign policy, but the language of freedom was used to justify America's actions
True
T/F George Kennan's Long Telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment
True
T/F Harry Truman's Fair Deal focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans
True
T/F In 1952, for the first time since record keeping began seventy years earlier, no lynching took place in the United States
True
T/F Operation Dixie was a failed attempt by an organized labor to unionize the South
True
T/F The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War
True
T/F The Korean War became the first American conflict fought by an integrated army since the War for Independence
True
T/F The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the first long-term military alliance between the United States and Europe since the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France during the American Revolution
True
T/F The Philippines was granted its independence in 1946
True
The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement: a. was a quite limited time b. was beneficial because the Urban League accepted communists into its ranks c. included government action against black leaders d. caused the NAACP to enlist the aid of the Soviets e. brought wider support for civil rights from southern Democrats who wanted to fight communism
c. included government action against black leaders