Chapter 26

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was strongly opposed by

labor unions

During Eisenhower's presidency, a crisis in the Middle East took place during the 1950s when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ___________________.

nationalized the Suez Canal

The Marshall Plan was created to:

rebuild western and southern Europe to help lessen the growth of communism there

The National Security Act of 1947 created all of the following except the _________________. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Department of Defense the U.S. Air Force the Department of Homeland Security

the Department of Homeland Security

The 1948 Berlin Airlift took place in response to:

the Russians setting up a blockade of the major roads in and out of Berlin

Who did Dwight Eisenhower twice defeat for the presidency during the 1950s?

Adlai Stevenson

During the Cold War, a "U-2" was a(n) __________________. Russian nuclear warhead

American spy plane

Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of ____________________.

China who was overthrown by communist rebels

Mao Zedong was the leader of ____________________.

Communist Chinese rebels who overthrew the nationalist government in 1949

In 1954, _______________ forces suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu, forcing the beginning of peace talks with Vietnamese rebels leading to an eventual pullout by the mid-1950s.

French

The first use of the containment policy (the so-called Truman Doctrine) in action involved U.S. aid to:

Greece and Turkey

In 1956, Russian troops rolled into ______________ in an effort to stifle domestic unrest with communist rule there.

Hungary

Which of the following nations was formally recognized by President Truman in 1948?

Israel

During the late 1940s, ________________ became the first African American baseball player to play major league baseball.

Jackie Robinson

______________________ was Dwight Eisenhower's strong-willed Secretary of State who devised many of the administration's foreign policy positions during the 1950s.

John Foster Dulles

More than any other American politician, __________________ represented the paranoid fears of communist spies existing all around the United States during the 1950s.

Joseph McCarthy

During the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur disagreed with Harry Truman over:

MacArthur's desire to escalate the war by attacking mainland China

____________________ succeeded Josef Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.

Nikita Khrushchev

The Korean War began in 1950 when:

North Korea attacked South Korea

_________________ was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president for two terms during the 1950s.

Richard Nixon

Of the following, who did not oppose Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election?

Socialist Party nominee Eugene Debs

The Korean War ended in 1953 with:

a communist government controlling North Korea and a non-communist government controlling South Korea

Alger Hiss was:

an American government official accused of being a communist spy for the Russians

President Harry Truman responded to the growing hysteria of anti-communist rhetoric and possible infiltration of the American government by communist spies and sympathizers by _________________.

contributing to the hysteria by announcing a rigorous "loyalty program" to investigate and root out potential subversives

The main American reaction to Sputnik was:

creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)