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CHapter 23

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Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history:
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women's suffrage
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How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
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Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift.
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The "Iron Curtain":
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separated the free West from the communist East.
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The policy of "containment" can best be described as:
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preventing the spread of communism worldwide.
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The Truman Doctrine:
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committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.
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Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?
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Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.
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To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department:
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funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.
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The Taft-Hartley Act:
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outlawed the closed shop.
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The impact of the Cold War on American culture was:
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especially evident in the movies.
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In the aftermath of World War II:
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the majority of returning G.I.s went back to work. and Americans paid more for consumer goods.
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Why did Harry Truman's loyalty review system target homosexuals working for the government?
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Homosexuals were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking the manly qualities necessary to fight communism.
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All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:
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Cold War military spending weakened the economy.
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President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:
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reparations.
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What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?
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They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.
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During the Cold War, Americans:
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formed anticommunist groups who pressured public libraries to remove ""un-American" books from their shelves.
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Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?
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They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.
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After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:
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the Soviet Union.
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How did the Soviet focus on social and economic rights in the Cold War human rights debate affect American attitudes?
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In the climate of anti communist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism.
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What did Eleanor Roosevelt do of particular significance several years after the war ended?
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She chaired the committee which drafted the United Nation's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
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The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
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The Army
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Which of the following events did NOT occur after Truman's 1947 speech to Congress
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Truman received only immediate, short-term Republican support for his containment policies
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Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?
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a permanent military buildup and a global application of containment
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In the 1950s what did the term "totalitarianism" describe?
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Fascism, Nazism, and communism
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
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included freedom of speech and religion.
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Who were the "Dixiecrats"?
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Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."
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Operation Wetback:
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was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation.