Kincy's Chapter 25-26 Study Guide
The German advance through North Africa was stopped at the battle of?
El Alamein
During the post-war Red Scare, based on little more than suspicion and vague accusations, what happened to many individuals that were suspected of communist sympathies?
Experienced persecution and destruction of their careers
What did the Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States upheld?
Franklin D. Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans During World War II (relocated)
The policy of containment of Soviet expansionism was first suggested in a "long telegram" written by?
George Kennan
Why did President Roosevelt encourage the passage of the Lend-Lease Act?
He wanted to provide aid to Britain in it's struggle against Germany
The United Nations achieved its greatest early success in?
Humanitarian aid to victims of World War II
The Truman Doctrine Committed the United States to?
Intervention in any free country to prevent a communist takeover
By not joining the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Soviet Union?
Isolated itself economically
Between 1935 and the outbreak of World War II, the public mood in the U.S. would best be described as?
Isolation from the world's problems
Although Hitler's Nazism was based on racist Aryan supremacy, he placed the greatest blame for Germany's problems on?
Jews and other degenerate races
All except what placed strains on American family during World War II?
Lower Wages
The Taft-Hartley Act largely reversed New Deal policy established by the?
National labor relations (or Wagner) Act
What wartime agency did the central Intelligence Agency come from?
Office of strategic sevices
What types of movies did Hollywood make after the outbreak of war?
Patriotic
England and France declared war on Germany when the nation invaded?
Poland
The NATO Alliance was formed in response to?
The Berlin blockade and airlift crisis
The project name for the atomic bomb was?
The Manhattan Project
The success of the first atomic bomb test convinced Truman that?
The United States no longer needed soviet aid to win the war
In 1940-1941, Japan's leaders hoped?
The United States would ignore Japanese conquests in Asia
In the Atlantic Charter, FDR and Churchill pledged to support?
The freedom of all peoples from tyranny
The Marshall Plan for European nations reflected the Truman administration's fear of?
The political consequences of economic chaos
In a 1950 speech, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy claimed that?
There were 205 communists working in the state department
Why did the U.S. promote a rebuilding of the Japanese economy after the war?
To ensure that Japan would be a part of the Anti-soviet bloc
The U.S. promoted a rebuilding of the Japanese economy after the war?
To ensure that Japan would be part of the anti-soviet war
In response to NATO rearming West Germany, the Soviet Union organize the?
Warsaw Pact
The phrase "iron curtain" to describe Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was popularized in a 1946 speech delivered by?
Winston Churchill
United States involvement in the IMF and World Bank was designed to?
assure U.S. primacy in the postwar global economy
What did Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" poster show about women?
can be strong and still feminine
In 1948, professors at the University of Washington in Seattle faced dismissal when suspected of being?
communist subversive
Allied hopes that aerial bombing would bring the war to a quick, humane end, however it led to what?
led to enormous damage to civilians property and civilian deaths proved true
Women in the military mainly worked in?
nursing and administration
When did most Americans become aware of the Holocaust?
only as the war entered its final stages
What part of the war did the African Americans serve in combat in World War II?
only towards the end of the war because of infantry shortages
The United States won World War II by?
outproducing its enemies
Between 1943 and 1945, a unique community emerged in Los Alamos, New Mexico, made up of?
researchers, scientists, and their families
What did the War Powers Act empowered Roosevelt to do? Everything Except
seize property from American Citizens
Passage of the National Security Act in 1947 indicated that?
the united states would be placed on a permanent state of high alert
What perfect of federal government workers worked in the Cold War security programs?
75%
One of the few components of the "Fair Deal" that became law was?
An increase in the federal minimum wage
The Dixiecrats bolted the Democratic party in the 1948 election because of Truman's position on?
Civil Rights
When Truman sent a list of twenty one proposals to revive the New Deal to Congress in 1946?
Congress rejected almost all of them
