McCarthyism and the Red Scare

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?

• Membership in the U.S. Communist Party increased.

• U.S. citizens were arrested for being suspected communists.

• Recruitment procedures for the U.S. military branches were reformed.

• U.S. diplomats began to express dissenting political viewpoints more freely.

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Which of the following is most characteristic of the Cold War?

• The growth of nuclear arsenals in the United States and the Soviet Union

• The expansion of national borders by imperialistic European countries

• The implementation of isolationist foreign policies in Great Britain and China

• The rapid industrialization of many Southeast Asian countries

What prompted the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to target the “Hollywood Ten”?

• Support for American isolationism in the years leading up to World War II

• Increased political pressure from racial groups regarding civil rights legislation

• Growing anxiety related to the economic effects of the Great Depression

• Fear of communist infiltration within the American entertainment industry

What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century?

• The rapid influx of immigrants made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services.

• Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level.

• The economy was too tightly regulated to allow urban growth.

• Settlement houses failed to help immigrants adjust to life in the city.

Nineteenth-century nativist organizations advocated —

• limiting federal military power through the organization of local militias

• conserving natural resources through the creation of national parks

• globalizing the economy through participation in free-trade agreements

• promoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration