- The term Fair Deal refers to
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Harry Truman's domestic social- and economic-reform programs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to give labor and farmers more lenient treatment by the federal government.
Joseph R. McCarthy's complaints that communist traitors got better treatment from the Democrats than loyal and hard-working ordinary Americans did.
Dwight Eisenhower's campaign slogan, suggesting what would happen once the Democrats were booted out of power.
none of these.
- The Bretton Woods Agreement
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established international oil policy for the major powers of Europe.
established the American dollar as the standard for other foreign currencies, and established a system of trade and international finance.
was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain over the protection of British colonies in Asia.
proposed a system of financial assistance for the beleaguered economies of Western Europe.
outlined the structure of the new United Nations organization.
- In Poland during 1945 and 1946,
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free elections were held, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but the Soviet Union nullified the results.
Americans of Polish ancestry who had formed a Thaddeus Kosciusko Brigade fought a guerrilla war against the pro-Soviet Polish government.
the Soviet Union barred free elections and suppressed the democratic parties.
the United States organized an airlift to provide food and supplies to the people of Warsaw.
German tanks entered Warsaw and took control of the Polish government.
- What "lesson" of recent history impressed President Truman and his advisers and formed a basic diplomatic tenet of his administration?
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A war on two fronts was difficult to win.
International peace could be achieved only when the Soviet Union felt secure on its borders.
The Japanese had an innate national tendency toward competition and aggression.
The more a nation builds up its armaments, the more it will be likely to go to war.
Appeasement toward aggressive dictators leads not to peace but to greater violence and bloodshed.
- George Kennan's long telegram from Moscow said that
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conflict with the Soviet Union was inevitable, so the United States had to pursue a firm policy of containing Soviet expansion.
the focus of world communism was shifting to China, and the United States should abandon its preoccupation with affairs in Eastern Europe.
American war aims in Europe had been achieved, so the United States should withdraw and focus on domestic challenges.
the Soviet Union was interested mainly in securing its borders, so the United States should encourage its domination of Eastern Europe.
conflict with the Soviet Union was inevitable, so the United States should, if at all possible, invade Russia and halt its expansive tendencies.
- When Winston Churchill spoke in Missouri about an "iron curtain," he was referring to
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the division that had developed between President Truman's loyal supporters in his home state and his opponents in the rest of the country.
a division between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and the rest of the continent.
the barrier that had to be established in order to contain communism within its existing boundaries.
the cultural and intellectual barrier that prevented Westerners from understanding Asia.
the atomic espionage ring supposedly organized by Klaus Fuchs.
- The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to
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help the hungry and homeless of Europe.
help stop the spread of communism in Europe.
help expand sales of American goods in Europe.
help to build the economies of both the United States and Europe.
all of these
- What was Republican John Foster Dulles referring to when he spoke of "the worst defeat the United States has suffered in its history"?
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the establishment of the communist People's Republic of China
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
the outcome of the Korean War
the loss of Eastern Europe to communism
the provisions of the Yalta agreements
- The Taft-Hartley Act
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outlawed the closed shop and permitted the president to call an eighty-day cooling-off period to delay a strike.
became known as the Magna Carta of the labor movement because of the rights that it ensured for unions.
constituted a slave-labor bill that crippled the labor movement in the United States.
was the cornerstone of President Truman's Fair Deal.
was the first New Deal act that was repealed in the Truman administration.
- Harry Truman was able to stage an upset victory in the election of 1948 because he
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gave in to southern wishes and ran on a weak civil-rights platform.
chose the staunch anticommunist Richard M. Nixon as his running mate.
re-created the old New Deal coalition and won an even greater percentage of the black vote than had Roosevelt.
wooed the left wing of the Democratic party with promises to reach an accord with the Soviet Union and drop the Employee Loyalty program.
adopted most of the Republican platform and endorsed traditional Republican values.
- Which of the following was accomplished during Truman's presidency?
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The armed forces were desegregated.
A national health-insurance system was started.
Labor unions were strengthened by government backing for the closed shop.
A federal anti-lynching law was enacted.
Communists were banned from government.
- The House Un-American Activities Committee was
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responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life.
the name that Senator Joseph McCarthy gave to the House Armed Services Committee.
declared by the Supreme Court to be in violation of basic civil liberties and therefore unconstitutional.
shut down by President Truman as a signal to the nation that the crusade against communist subversion would be directed from the White House.
commended by President Truman for its pathbreaking work in documenting the reasons for the fall of China to the Communists.
- In 1951 the Supreme Court asserted in Dennis v. U.S. that
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it was illegal to advocate the overthrow of the government.
Congress had the power to curtail freedom of speech when its members concluded that national security demanded such restriction.
Congress had no right to restrict the purely political activities of any organization, regardless of the popularity of that organization's views.
publications that presented the Soviet Union in a positive light were endangering national security and could be shut down by the federal government.
none of these
- The Republicans were victorious in the 1952 election because of
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the Korean stalemate.
wage-and-price freezes.
government corruption.
Eisenhower's military stature and infectious smile.
all of these
- Who were the "Hollywood Ten"?
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a group of prominent film directors and screenwriters who refused to say whether they had been members of the Communist Party
the ten most popular film stars of the early 1950s
the ten most powerful movie producers in Hollywood, who signed on to make anticommunist movies for the federal government
Harry Truman's favorite movie comedians
a group of prominent film directors and screenwriters who exposed communist infiltration in the major Hollywood studios