APUSH - Ch. 36

Question 1

What were people’s fears about the economy with the war ending?

Answer 1

Return to depression

Question 2

What was the anti-union legislation over Truman’s veto?

Answer 2

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 3

Describe the conditions for organized labor in the years after the war

Answer 3

Stopped Growing, strikes

Question 4

who got the most out of the good economic conditions after the war?

Answer 4

Women

Question 5

as a result of the good economy, what dramatic change took place for the middle class?

Answer 5

More jobs for women, feminist revolt

Question 6

The long economic boom from WWII to about 1970 was especially fueled by

Answer 6

Low energy costs

Question 7

the dramatically reduced number of American farms and farmers in the postwar era was accompanied by…?

Answer 7

Mechanization, productivity

Question 8

After the war, people tended to move to what section of the country?

Answer 8

Sunbelt

Question 9

why was the Sunbelt area so prosperous?

Answer 9

Influx of money from federal gov.

Question 10

what measures helped to encourage people to move to the suburbs?

Answer 10

All of the following except the development of fuel efficient automobiles

Question 11

How did the growing suburbs affect the cities?

Answer 11

Increase in urban poverty

Question 12

population distribution after WWII followed a pattern of

Answer 12

Urban-suburban segregation of blacks and whites

Question 13

The refusal of the Federal Housing Authority to grant home loans to blacks contributed to

Answer 13

Driving many blacks into public housing

Question 14

the huge postwar baby boom reached its peak in the

Answer 14

Late 1950s

Question 15

the crucial origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in

Answer 15

Eastern Europe

Question 16

What key decisions were made by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Yalta Conference?

Answer 16

Dividing up Germans, Su attack Japan

Question 17

The earliest and most serious failure of the U.S. involved its ability to

Answer 17

Control atomic energy especially in the manufacture of weapons

Question 18

what were the early successes of the United Nations?

Answer 18

Preserve peace in Iran and Kashmir, created Israel, guided colonies to independence

Question 19

What did Truman do about the Soviet Union blockade of the roads to Berlin

Answer 19

Air lifted supplies

Question 20

George Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of

Answer 20

Containment

Question 21

Describe the policy of containment

Answer 21

Prevent SU from expanding communism

Question 22

what crisis prompted the issuing of the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 22

Greece and Turkey

Question 23

Describe the Truman Doctrine

Answer 23

US pledges support to those who were resisting subjugation by communists

Question 24

What was the Marshall Plan

Answer 24

Called for military aid for Europe, gave them tons of money

Question 25

The Marshall Plan succeeded in reviving Europe’s economy and thwarting the large internal Communist parties threatening to take over

Answer 25

25.

Question 26

President Truman risked American access to Middle Eastern Oil supplies when he

Answer 26

Supported Israel

Question 27

What did American membership in the North Atlantic treaty organization do for the U.S.?

Answer 27

Reaffirmed commitment to defending Europe, departure from US isolationism, reduce need for military spending, resolve problem of Germany

Question 28

Why did the Communists win the Chinese civil war?

Answer 28

Jiang lost the support and confidence of the Chinese people

Question 29

How did this defeat of the Nationalists become a political issue in the U.S.?

Answer 29

Democrats were accused of being off balance for not helping

Question 30

Give examples and describe the increasing domestic anticommunist uproar in the late 1940s?

Answer 30

Loyalty Review board, HUAC, McCarthyism, Nixon, A-Bomb in SU

Question 31

What was the central issue in the 1948 election and what happened at the Democratic intervention?

Answer 31

Civil Rights, Southern Democrats split from the party b/c Truman was in favor of civil rights

Question 32

Summarize the 1948 presidential election

Answer 32

Thurmond- States rights; Wallace – Progressive; Truman – Democrat; Dewey – Republican

Question 33

Pres. Truman’s domestic legislative plan was dubbed the

Answer 33

Fair Deal

Question 34

Pres. Truman ‘s action upon hearing of the invasion of South Korea illustrated his commitment to a foreign policy of

Answer 34

Containment

Question 35

What was NSC-68?

Answer 35

Called for massive increase in military spending

Question 36

Describe the MacArthur / Truman Controversy

Answer 36

Truman fired him

Question 37

Arrange the following events in chronological order (A) Berlin Aircraft (B) Korean War (C) fall of China (3)

Answer 37

(A) Berlin Airlift
(C) fall of China
(B)Korean War