USH Final Study guide Ch. 31-33

It led to US military preparedness in peacetime for the first time in US history

It increased government surveillance of citizens.

It promoted the creation of a national security state.

It was based on the increase in size of the Communist Party of the US.

Stalin’s death and the emergence of Khrushchev

The Soviet launch of Sputnik

Soviet exposure of American U-2 spy planes.

U.S. intervention in support of the French in Vietnam.

the “Big Three” agreed to the “partitioning” of Germany into East and West sectors.

the Allied Powers of England, the U.S. the Soviet Union agreed that only an “unconditional surrender” from Japan would be accepted. Japan had offered to surrender asking only the condition that their Emperor not be indicted as a “war criminal.”

Harry Truman learned that the test of the Atomic Bomb in New Mexico had been successful.

All of the first three

Only B and C

shows that Truman won by gaining support of part of the South which previous to his civil rights stand had been “the solid south” for the Democrats.

shows that the Democrats under Truman’s leadership won the southwest and the west outright. This shows the shift in political power away from the traditional northeast urban environments and the “solid south” for the Democrats toward the emergent population shifts to the southwest and west.

shows that the former Democrat and segregationist, Strom Thurmond did succeed in taking away from Truman eight southern states.

A and B

All of the first three

Lucille Ball

Ronald Reagan

Dashel Hammet

Gary Cooper

A, B and D

the US assisted France in its’ war to recapture its’ control of Vietnam with near $2.6 billion

the US Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Defense Dulles advised President Eisenhower to employ nuclear weapons in support of the French in Vietnam

President Eisenhower refused to employ the US military directly in support of France and in opposition to communist troops under the control of Ho Chi Minh saying, “I can conceive of no greater tragedy than for the United States to become engaged in an all out war in Indochina.”

A and B

All of the first three

McCarthy’s staff member David Schine was drafted

Roy Cohn demanded "special treatment" for David Schine from the Army; no boot camp, and a private room. The Army refused.

Joseph McCarthy moved to investigate the Army which turned out to be his downfall.

All of the above

made it illegal to "substantially contribute" to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship,

required the registration of all communists, who could not receive a passport, nor work in national defense

was vetoed by Truman, but Congress over rode with votes from Richard Nixon, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson

A and B

All of the first three

True

False

intervening to prevent a communist takeover.

sending combat troops to the Middle East to stabilize Palestine.

supporting the United Nations humanitarian efforts in Europe.

reducing the size of the U.S. military abroad.

True

False

began June 26th 1948 and lasted until May12th 1949.

used C-147s or "gooney birds" at first then the heavier C-54s. There were 1,000 flights a day with 8,000 to 9,000 tons every 24 hours

witnessed on Black Friday, Aug. 13th 1948 the landing strip was fogged in there were 3 crashes -- from then on they circled back when the weather was bad.

The total cost $300 million and 65 lives.

All of the above

on Eisenhower’s threat to use atomic weapons against North Korea unless they were willing to negotiate a “truce” along the original dividing line between North and South Korea at the 38th Parallel

on Eisenhower’s use of a “southern strategy” -- by employing a “states rights” response to Truman’s civil rights agenda.

Both of the above

Neither of the above, Eisenhower won the election of 1952 because he was identified as the general that had defeated Germany in WWII.

Greece

Turkey

Iran

A and B

A, B and C

Set up a limited commitment by the US to Western Europe.

was intended as a call to military action everywhere that “communism” threatened to overthrow western style democracy and capitalist economies.

became ideological and promoted the idea of “good verses evil.”

was limited to strictly diplomatic pressure.

B and C

conducted the Motion Picture Probe in 1947

was refuted by the "Hollywood Ten" which included Dalton Trumbo and Daschle Hemet. Some of these people received jail sentences and others were "blacklisted".

J. Robert Parnell, the Chair of the Committee, was later convicted on payroll fraud.

A and B

All of the first three

of Truman’s endorsement of a plank on racial equality.

of Truman’s attack on the “do nothing 80th Congress” that was controlled by the Republicans.

Truman had rejected Henry Wallace as his running mate in 1948.

A and C

All of the first three

Truman agreed to this at Yalta knowing that with the Atomic bomb he could end the war before the Soviets entered it thereby canceling the agreement.

The agreement at Yalta also established the United Nations.

The agreement at Yalta also divided Poland and allowed for Soviet occupation until "free elections" could be arranged.

all of the above are true.

B and C are true.

Mass media

Hollywood witnesses

Accusations of homosexuals in the Army

Palestine was the country and it was accomplished through the CIA’s clandestine support of the Jewish terrorist groups, Haganah and Stern who killed 254 men, woman and children in an Arab village, Deir Yassin.

Vietnam was the country and it was accomplished by CIA secret operatives in Cambodia.

Iran was the country, and the CIA used the American Embassy in Tehran as the base of operations to successfully remove an Islamic fundamentalist named Mosaddeq.

True

False

Joseph McCarthy was elevated to a Permanent Committee on Investigations.

McCarthy hired as investigators for his newly formed committee Roy Cohn, David Schine, and Robert Kennedy

McCarthy’s approval rating was at 50%

All of the above

dramatically increased military spending from 5% to 20% of federal budget

included “covert operations” which to this day do not appear in the federal budget

resulted in military expenditures of $100 billion within the next few years

was in part what Eisenhower feared when in his farewell address in 1960 he suggested that the greatest threat to the US was “the military industrial complex.”

All of the above