Chapter 24

Stalin initiated he blockade of the city of West Berlin in order to

Keep western influence and west German currency out of the Soviet Union

All of the following are examples of the second red scare in America expect

New laws regarding the protection of civil liberties

Critics thought that NSC-68 was a gross overreaction by U.S officials to communism until

North Korea's invasion of South Korea

All of the following Is true about the Montgomery bus boycott except

Once segregation in Montgomery's local bus service had broken down, it quickly crumbled else where in the state of Alabama and throughout the south

The Marshall plan

Provided 13 billion to governments that promised to become or remain democrats

Truman eventually managed to break the Berlin blockade by

Sending a massive amounts of food and supplies by regular aircraft

In the court case brown vs. the board of education, the Supreme Court held that

Separate education facilities for black and white students were by nature unequal and public schools must desegregate

The role that was promoted for women in the 1950s was

Suburban domesticity and child-rearing

The main reason that the Dixiecrats broke with Truman in 1948 and formed their own party was his

Support for civil rights

As early as March 1946, Churchill realized that Stalin had

Taken control of so much of Eastern Europe that it was as if an iron curtain had fallen between the east and the west

After the Korean War the U.S addressed its fears regarding the spread of communism in all of the following ways except

Testing nuclear missiles via satellite in space

Between the end of world war 2 and 1960, many Americans increasingly did all of the following except

They became more concerned about carrying debt

After the Chinese enters the Korean conflict in support of North Korea

UN troops pushed the North Koreans and the Chinese back to the original dividing lines about the 38th parallel

Women who held jobs during the 1950s

We're segregated I to female-specific occupations, mostly in service sector

What was the most common reaction of Americans to cod war uncertainties

Fear and the rise of conservatism

Intended as an extension of the new deal, Truman's fair deal included all of the following except

Federal aid for single mothers

Which of the organizations was not created under the national security act of 1947

Federal bureau of investigation

All of the following are evidence of a car culture except

Growing numbers of social clubs

Emmett till was murdered because

He supposedly whistled at a white woman working in a grocery store

Stalin was convinced that Soviet security rested upon creating a buffer of friendly neighboring states could mainly because

He wanted to make it impossible for germany to eve invade

All of the following are true about Dwight D. Eisenhower except

He was opposed to the new deal and fair deal

For what military reason did Truman fire MacArthur

Insubordination

The rapid growth of the suburbs had all of the following results except

It muted the cities who had complained of conformity

The Warsaw Pact was

A union consisting of Stalin's Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that he controlled after world war 2

NSC-68 was a classified paper that

All of these choices

When nine black students attempted to integrate central high school in Arkansas in 1957

All of these choices

Why were there so many strikes in the year after the war ended

All of these choices

Why was Truman accused of "losing China"

China, an ally during world war 2, had fallen to communism, despite U.S efforts to prevent it

The North Atlantic treaty organization stipulated that

An attack on one or more treaty partners would be considered an attack against them all

Jackie Robinson is famous for

Being the first African American to plat Major League Baseball