APUSH chapter 27 fill-in-the-blank questions

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109. NATO stands for ________.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

102. The most important question at the Teheran Conference concerned the future of ________.

Poland

103. Truman met in July 1945 at ________, in Russian-occupied Germany, with Churchill and Stalin.

Potsdam

117. A freshman congressman from California named ________ helped convict Alger Hiss.

Richard Nixon

111. States were given permission to pass "right-to-work" laws by the ________ Act of 1947.

Taft-Hartley

101. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met together for the first time at ________.

Teheran.

114. Beginning in 1947, the House ________ Committee instituted a serious investigation of internal subversion.

Un-American Activities

115. People in Hollywood who were suspected of being subversive were ________ from employment.

barred/blacklisted

116. Alger Hiss was in part convicted by Whittaker Chambers's "________ papers."

pumpkin

118. Senator Joseph McCarthy routinely accused the Democrats of committing "twenty years of ________."

treason

107. America's major military and diplomatic institutions were reshaped by the ________ Act of 1947.

National Security

119. Dwight Eisenhower's Democratic opponent in 1952 was ________.

Adlai Stevenson

108. Stalin's 1948 decision to blockade ________ intensified the Cold War.

Berlin

120. During the 1952 campaign, Richard Nixon kept his place on the Republican ticket with his televised "________ speech."

Checkers

106. Domestic American opposition to the Marshall Plan virtually ended with the communist coup in ________.

Czechoslovakia

113. In 1951, General ________ was relieved of his command by President Truman.

Douglas MacArthur

104. The intellectual architect of the containment doctrine was American diplomat ________.

George Kennan

105. The Truman Doctrine was announced to garner support for American aid to two countries, ________ and Turkey.

Greece

110. In 1946, the Republicans used the simple slogan, "________" to capture both houses of Congress.

Had Enough?

112. The splinter candidacies of Strom Thurmond and ________ seemed to imperil President Truman's election in 1948.

Henry Wallace


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