history exam ch 28 (last) Flashcards
By 1947, the intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States was called
the Cold War
Who was the author of the 1946 rationale for a hard-line U.S. foreign policy of containment?
Career diplomat George F. Kennan
How did President Truman respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and 1949?
He ordered the airlifting of more than two million tons of goods to West Berliners.
What was the peacetime military alliance created by the United States, Canada, and Western European countries to deter attacks from the Soviet Union?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The G.I. Bill help to boost the U.S. economy after World War II
with the provision of job training, education, and low-interest home loans.
Which of these men was the most infamous crusader against communism after World War II?
Joseph R. McCarthy
What triggered U.S. military action in Korea in 1950?
The invasion of South Korea by troops from Communist North Korea
What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?
He conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists.
In the context of President Eisenhower’s policy toward Native Americans, termination meant
ending the federal government’s special relationship with the Indians by transferring jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments.
What was Levittown, New York?
first suburban neighborhood
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned which of the following precedents?
separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
How did President Eisenhower ultimately respond to the attempts to block the enrollment of nine black students in Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957?
He sent army troops to Little Rock to oversee the integration of the school.
In what way did the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s differ from previous efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States?
It involved masses of people who used civil disobedience to bring about change.
Why did the Montgomery, Alabama, police arrest Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955?
refused to give her seat up to a white man
The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–56 persisted until
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Alabama’s state and local laws requiring segregation on buses.
