McCarthy and his followers attacked the US Information Agency because...

USIA contained integrationist literature.

Recent research tends to suggest that the Rosenbergs were...

Almost certainly guilty as charged.

Latin American states reacted to the Truman Doctrine with...

Calculation; it might be an avenue to secure Marshall aid.

HUAC was originally organized by Congress to investigate...

The Klan and Domestic Terrorism

The Smith Act (1940) made it illegal to...

Belong to an organization that advocated violent revolution.

Which of the following statements best describes Truman's view of Latin American importance.

Latin American republics were the lowest priority.

The Allies responded to the blockade with the Berlin Airlift, because..

The Allies felt they needed to show resolve., The Allies didn't want to provoke an open war.

The Rio Conference of 1947 established...

A Collective Security Agreement among American states.

Truman responded to anti-communism by...

Issuing Executive Order 9835, investigating communists.

Klaus Fuchs was arrested...

in Britain, passing atomic secrets.

The "defection" of Whittaker Chambers, and his cooperation with HUAC reinforced that...

Drastic action was needed to stem inflitration., That homosexuality and espionage were linked.

The 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act required...

Members of the Communist Party to register with the Feds.

After WWII, anti-Communism increased because...

Soviet military might frightened many., It became a powerful election issue.

NATO was formed in response to...

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin

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1
McCarthy and his followers attacked the US Information Agency because...
USIA contained integrationist literature.
The USIA had a woman as its first head.
USIA defended Social Security
The USIA defended free speech for "radical" parties.
2
Recent research tends to suggest that the Rosenbergs were...
framed for political purposes.
Almost certainly guilty as charged.
inadvertently guilty.
guilty, but not of the crimes they were accused of.
3
Latin American states reacted to the Truman Doctrine with...
Revulsion, because of Soviet aid.
Calculation; it might be an avenue to secure Marshall aid.
Studied indifference; it mattered not.
Enthusiasm; most feared Soviet expansionism.
4
HUAC was originally organized by Congress to investigate...
Italian Syndicalists
Communist Infiltration
The Klan and Domestic Terrorism
Nazi sympathizers
5
Walter Lippman criticized the Truman Doctrine as...
Proto-Fascism.
Deliberately provocative.
Too narrow a response.
Too open ended a commitment.
6
The Smith Act (1940) made it illegal to...
Removed sexual deviants from government employ.
Made it a crime to challenge segregation in the military.
Belong to an organization that advocated violent revolution.
Spread atomic secrets to the Nation's enemies.
7
Much of McCarthy's and Nixon's rhetoric fell back on tropes of ________.
anti-Chinese sentiment
containment
contempt for agricultural socialism
class resentment
8
One of the highest visibility domestic HUAC prosecutions was...
The Scottsboro Boys
The Schneiderman Case
The Sacco & Vanzetti Case
The "Hollywood 10"
9
Which of the following statements best describes Truman's view of Latin American importance.
Latin America was a top priority.
Latin America recieved the same aid as Europe.
Latin America got the same aid as East Asia.
Latin American republics were the lowest priority.
10
The Allies responded to the blockade with the Berlin Airlift, because..
US troops were stuck in West Berlin.
The Allies felt they needed to show resolve.
West Berlin was militarily necessary to the Allies.
The Allies didn't want to provoke an open war.
11
The main agency charged with investigating American citizens by FDR was...
The FBI
The ATF
The CIA
The IRS
12
The Rio Conference of 1947 established...
A Collective Security Agreement among American states.
A substantial US economic investment in Latin America.
Little, as the conference broke apart in scandal.
A radical break between the US and Latin America
13
Truman responded to anti-communism by...
Publicly accusing McCarthy and HUAC of being "the gestapo"
Refusing to cooperate with investigations.
Issuing Executive Order 9835, investigating communists.
Ordering an end to HUAC investigations.
14
Klaus Fuchs was arrested...
in Washington DC in a gay scandal.
in France, sharing national defense plans.
in Idaho, with a list of US security agents.
in Britain, passing atomic secrets.
15
The "defection" of Whittaker Chambers, and his cooperation with HUAC reinforced that...
The Democratic Party was in league with the Soviets.
That S.O.S. Adolph Berle had a communist circle.
Drastic action was needed to stem inflitration.
That homosexuality and espionage were linked.
16
The 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act required...
States to register homosexuals and "other subversives."
Members of the Communist Party to register with the Feds.
The Federal government to investigate employees.
Americans to Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
17
The Berlin blockade dates to...
1948
1955
1945
1951
18
After WWII, anti-Communism increased because...
Soviet military might frightened many.
There is objective evidence of Communist subversion.
It became a powerful election issue.
President Truman championed HUAC's investigations.
19
NATO was formed in response to...
The Soviet occupation of Poland.
The Prague Spring.
The Construction of the Berlin Wall
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
20
McCarthy's influence was broken by...
McCarthy's attack on Dean Acheson
Calling Truman a collaborator.
McCarthy's famous "Black Communists" speech.
The Army-McCarthy Hearings
21
Alger Hiss was convicted of...
Perjury
Passing atomic secrets to Soviet handlers.
Membership in a registered party.
Subversion of the US government in the 1930s.
22
One of Joseph McCarthy's closest allies was...
Adlai Stephenson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower

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