The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952

Truman’s responses to the aggressiveness of the Soviets took the form of ___.

The ___ grew in the postwar period.

What did the Employment Act of 1946 promote?

NSC-68 marked a major step in the demilitarization of American foreign policy. 

The ___ was a successor of the ___. 

Which of the following secretaries is under the Secretary of Defense?

Which of the following of the "Big Three" attended the Yalta Conference in 1945?

The Marshall Plan was a success. 

Large suburbs were often known as ___ in the 1950s.

What organization was created at the Yalta Conference?

Which of the following spies were convicted of selling nuclear secrets to Russia?

The National Security Council advises the president on security matters. 

The ___ called for giving over $400 million to boost the economy of Greece and Turkey. 

Containment doctrine said that Soviets were unpredictable and risky and would attack the US.

Which of the following were one of the "Big Four" powers?

Millions of people moved away from the Sunbelt in the postwar period to look for jobs.

The economy was stellar in 1946-47, and employment was at all-time highs. 

___ became common, requiring government employees to swear that they were not communists. 

The Us acquired its first H-bomb in ___; the Soviets acquired their first H-bomb in ___.

What was HUAC?

Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at the ___.

Convictions of communist activists were upheld in the Supreme Court case ___.

The Marshall Plan called for spending $___ over 4 years in 16 different countries.

The majority of the American people supported Joseph McCarthy and his actions. 

Which of the following did the Taft-Hartley Act do?

The first major conflict of the Cold War was the ___. 

What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act also known as?

___ won the Election of 1948.

___ led the reconstruction of Japan after WWII. 

Executive Order 9981 ___ the armed forces.

By 1960, 90%of American owned a ___.

Truman promoted a plan called the ___.

The GI Bill also created the ___.

NATO significantly militarized the Cold War. 

In 1948, the Democratic Party was split over the nomination of Truman.

The Korean War prompted a massive expansion of the US military. 

__ Germany was independent and influenced by the West. 

___ Germany and many Eastern European countries became satellite states of the USSR. 

Over 30 million people changed residences every year during the postwar period.

McCarthyism was the result of Cold War fears and paranoia.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was called was established at the ___.

The collapse of Nationalist China was a depressing defeat for America.

There was intense scrutiny on perceived ___ in the US after WWII. 

The ___ regulated the military draft and shaped the future of a generation of Americans. 

The ___ was formed to collect facts on foreign countries. 

The US Senate approved the United Nations Charter in 1945.

Japan adopted a ___ government during its Reconstruction by the US. 

Reconstruction in Japan was simpler than it was in Germany. 

Severe anti-communism actions and politics during the post-war period were called ___.

The movement of whites out of urban areas and into the suburbs was known as "___."

The GATT reduced trade barriers and formed the basis for economic globalization. 

China's Nationalist government was overthrown by __ in 1949. 

The Soviets eventually lifted the blockade on Berlin. 

___ was President of the United States at the end of WWII. 

In 1954, the ___ were watched by 20 million Americans at a time.

The Soviet Union accepted aid from the Marshall Plan. 

Economists thought the US would have another Great Depression after WWII.

Which of the following did Truman's Fair Deal contain?

Southern Democrats supporting Strom Thurmond in 1948 were called ___.

Hydrogen bombs are thousands of times more powerful than atomic bombs. 

Operation Dixie was a major success of unions looking to get settled in the South. 

The Cold War caused the Soviets to participate in world multilateral institutions. 

What did HUAC do?

The GI Bill spent $____ billion on education.

The “middle class” included 60%of American people by the mid-1950s. 

Richard Nixon led the investigation that tried and convicted ___. 

Americans,while being 6% of the world population, enjoyed 40%of its wealth by the 1960s.

By 1960,almost ___ new children had been born in the US during the previous decade.

During the ___, planes dropped thousands of tons of supplies a day into West Berlin. 

In 1973 the national income crossed the ___ dollar mark.

Monetary support from the US for struggling countries in Europe was called the ___. 

Under NATO, signatories promised to defend each other if attacked by the USSR. 

The US did not use nuclear weapons during the Korean War. 

The Soviets successfully tested an atomic bomb in ___.

NSC-68 requested requested that the US ___ its military spending. 

The ___ was the huge leap in the birthrate in the 15 years after WWII.

Congress passed the National Security Act in 1947,creating the Department of ___. 

A rivalry  emerged between communistic, totalitarian ___ and capitalistic, democratic ___.

American forces pushed the Koreans all the way to the Chinese border.

Chinese/Korean and American forces forced a stalemate around the ___.

The uniformed heads of each service were called the ____.

The tense standoff between the US and Soviet Union for 45 years was called __.

The GI Bill put soldiers in the  “52-20 Club” and paid for their schooling.