Chapter 23: Question 61 + all true and false

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T/F Hollywood remained the one voice of protest during the McCarthy era, making films that glorified individualism, socialism, and the questioning of authority.

False

T/F Since he was black, in spite of his great playing ability and character on and off the field, Jackie Robinson failed to win the Rookie of the Year award.

False

T/F The Truman Doctrine was in support of giving billions of dollars for European economic recovery

False

T/F The United States was the first country to approve both covenants of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights

False

T/F The United States won the Korean War

False

T/F: Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful

False

T/F: The Freedom Train contained documents such as the Wagner Act and FDR's Four Freedoms speech

False

T/F "totalitarian" had become a shorthand way of describing those on the other side in the Cold War

True

T/F Both the Taft-Hartley Act and the McCarren-Walter Act passed over Truman's veto

True

T/F Generally speaking, economics and geopolitical interest motivated American foreign policy, but the language of freedom was used to justify America's actions

True

T/F George Kennan's Long Telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment

True

T/F Harry Truman's Fair Deal focused on improving the social safety net and raising the standard of living of ordinary Americans

True

T/F In 1952, for the first time since record keeping began seventy years earlier, no lynching took place in the United States

True

T/F Operation Dixie was a failed attempt by an organized labor to unionize the South

True

T/F The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War

True

T/F The Korean War became the first American conflict fought by an integrated army since the War for Independence

True

T/F The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the first long-term military alliance between the United States and Europe since the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France during the American Revolution

True

T/F The Philippines was granted its independence in 1946

True

The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement: a. was a quite limited time b. was beneficial because the Urban League accepted communists into its ranks c. included government action against black leaders d. caused the NAACP to enlist the aid of the Soviets e. brought wider support for civil rights from southern Democrats who wanted to fight communism

c. included government action against black leaders


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