Ch. 37 - The Cold War Begins

Southern response to Truman's civil rights initiatives

linked to Soviet spy Dr. Klaus Fuchs, they were tried and executed for treason

Twelve of the accused Nazis swung from the gallows, and seven were sentenced to jail terms.

American pilots ferried supplies to the grateful Berliners, their former enemies

Which of the following would become a major problem of the Baby Boom?

provided generous educational benefits and loans to war veterans

increased population rate double that of the old industrial zones of the Frostbelt

secrecy and isolation that Stalin clanged down across Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

The Dixiecrats were southern Democrats who were in favor of Truman's civil rights laws

making it government policy “to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power"

This action taken by the US, GB, and France caused USSR to set up a military blockade of Berlin

support free people resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities/ by outside pressures”

the huge leap in the birthrate in the decade and a half after 1945.

Joseph Stalin's postwar security concerns focused on.....

The earliest failure of the United Nations was its inability to

The refusal of FHA loans to blacks resulted in

he successfully carried out the democratization of post-war Japan

called for spending $12.5 billion over four years in sixteen cooperating countries

The Marshall Plan called for.....

It outlawed the “closed” (all-union) shop, made unions liable for damages

All of the following nations have veto power in the United Nations EXCEPT

New Progressive Party candidate during the 1948 election; took an apparently pro-Soviet line

Post WWII prosperity was most beneficial to.....

divide Germany, free elections, Soviety help defeating Japan, United Nations, U.S. Aid

Henry Wallace opposed the policy of containment adopted by the Truman administration

defined as households earning between $3,000 and $10,000 a year, 2x from pre–Great Depression

discredited and censured by his unwarranted attacks on the U.S. military

investigated more than 3 million federal employees, 3,000 of whom resigned or were dismissed

aimed at unionizing southern textile workers and steelworkers, failed miserably

The baby boom generation created a problem in the future by.....

Why did Sen. Taft oppose the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

massed produced uniform/standardized housing; New Suburbia

created to investigate communist subversion of American institutions

The Taft-Hartley Act was passed to check the powers of.....

annihilation of any life on earth has been brought within the range of technical possibilities