How did US foreign policy change after WWII?

The US adopted a policy of containment.

What was the Manhattan Project?

The development of Nuclear Weapons (atomic bomb).

What is the the significance of the 1948 presidential election?

Truman won, The Dem Party supports anti-communism, and a strong fed govt.

What did FDR call for at the Yalta Conference? Select all that apply.

The Soviet Union to join the war against Japan., A new world organization to replace the failed League of Nations.

Which of the followimng best describes what was asked in the Truman Doctrine?

Orders to inject $400,000,000 into Greece&Turkey to stop communism spread.

How did the democratic party change in 1948?

They officially supported civil rights in their platform.

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1
Truman was the former sentaor of ____?
Missouri
Minnesota
Mississippi
Michigan
2
When did F. Roosevelt die?
4/19/1945
4/12/1944
4/12/1945
4/19/1946
3
How did US foreign policy change after WWII?
The US adopted a policy of containment.
The US develops a foreign policy of conatiners rent.
The US develops a policy of crippling debt.
The US adopts a policy of confinement
4
What was the Manhattan Project?
The construction of the Empire State Building.
The rebuilding of the Twin Towers.
An apartment complex facility being built in Manhattan during the cold war.
The development of Nuclear Weapons (atomic bomb).
5
Who says this? The time has arrived for the dem party ... to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights"
Herbert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Herbert Hoover
Hubert Goober
6
When did Japan Surrender?
9/3/1946
9/2/1947
9/2/1945
9/3/1945
7
Which two cities were bombed in Japan by the United States?
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Okinawa
Tokyo and Hiroshima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8
What is the the significance of the 1948 presidential election?
Truman lost
democrats weren't racist anymore
Truman won
Truman won, The Dem Party supports anti-communism, and a strong fed govt.
9
In 1946 Truman appoints the presidents committee on civil rights to investigate racism in America.
True
False
10
What did FDR call for at the Yalta Conference? Select all that apply.
He wants the US to vote for Truman as the next war coordinator.
The Soviet Union to join the war against Japan.
He proposed the Great Society
A new world organization to replace the failed League of Nations.
11
After the war, there was a huge boom in _____
Communism (The Economy)
Isolationist ideals
Consumerism (The Economy)
Containment (The Economy)
12
What day was VE Day?
5/9/1944
5/8/1945
5/8/1944
5/8/1944
13
Strom Thurmond, a dixiexrat, was incredibly racist.
False
True
14
Which of the followimng best describes what was asked in the Truman Doctrine?
Orders to inject $400,000 into Greece&Turkey to start communism spread.
Orders to inject $400,000,000 into Greece&Turkey to start communism spread.
Orders to inject $400,000,000 into Greece&Turkey to stop communism spread.
Orders to inject $400,000 into Greece&Turkey to stop communism spread.
15
How did the democratic party change in 1948?
They supported civil nights now.
They officially supported civil wrongs in their platform.
They sup[ported civil knights now.
They officially supported civil rights in their platform.
16
Truman was FDR's ____ vice president
1st
4th
3rd
2nd
17
Howe many people did Germany exterminate?
10 million
12 million
9 million
11 million

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