Chapter 27: The Cold War and The Fair Deal

Truman fired MacArthur:

for insubordination

Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:

gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean

All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:

had an Ivy League education

A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:

high rates of inflation

In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:

inevitable

In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:

launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

moderate liberalism

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:

order the development of a hydrogen bomb

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:

peacetime alliances

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:

proved to be meaningless

One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:

racist nature of the enemies of the United States

The Hiss-Chambers case:

resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage

State Department official George Kennan:

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:

temporarily seize those industries

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:

that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 Strikebreaker"?

the Congress of Industrial Organizations

In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:

the State Department

When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:

the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors

In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from:

the federal government

In 1948, President Truman desegregated:

the military

By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:

were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress

Inch'on was the site:

where General MacArthur turned the war around with an amphibious landing

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

China

The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?

Stalin's quest for world domination

UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about:

a massive Chinese intervention

Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:

Brooklyn Dodgers

By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:

Eastern Europe

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism

All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT:

Japan

Who was famous for arguing that there were "so many Communists in America"?

Joseph McCarthy

The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:

Republican control of Congress

The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:

Richard Nixon

The 1948 election is probably best remembered for:

Truman's upset victory

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:

allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes

With the end of World War II, Korea:

became divided into northern and southern halves

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:

became the first country to recognize the Jewish state

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

can veto any major proposal

On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:

enlarge the New Deal

Senator McCarthy was very effective in:

exploiting public fears

As the 1948 election approached:

Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble

During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

abolishing Social Security

At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to:

adopt a strong civil rights plank

President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act:

because he felt it promoted thought control

The Korean War did all of the following EXCEPT:

bring about major changes in boundaries

One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:

confidence and self-assuredness

The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:

pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:

the Department of Homeland Security