Chapter 27
In the last months of 1949, events in the soviet Union and China included
A. Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.
The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of general Douglas MacArthur was
Criticism of president Truman
In 1950, Alger hiss was convicted of spying on the United States
False, Alger Hiss was convicted of spying by the Soviet Union
The Truman doctrine called for the United States to send troops to Greece and turkey
False, the Truman doctrine called the United States to send troops to any countries threatened by Soviet forces or of communist insurrection
The national security act of 1947
Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council.
States were given the right to pass right-to-work laws by the
Taft-Hartley Actmof 1947
In 1947, the first Target of the house un-american committee HUAC was
The movie industry
An integral part of the American policy of cold war containment was to extend American economic aid to the rebuilding of Western Europe
True
At Yalta, negotiators for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed to create a Soviet Union agreed to create a United Nations with a security council in which the powers would have the powers to veto proposed action
True
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies despite public protests in their behalf
True
The "zones of occupation" for postwar Germany left Berlin well inside the Soviet zone
True
The Sovuet responded to the creation of NATO by forming an alliance with communist governments called the pact
True
The Yalta accords were less a settlement of postwar issues that a set of loose principles
True
Following world war 2, the great majority of American women
Wanted to keep working
In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally
President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union
after his first few days in office
During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government
he never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist
