AP US History Chapter 26

This helped veterans find stability after WWII through home ownership and free education.

• Taft Hartley Act

• GI Bill

• 22nd Amendment

• Employment Act of 1946

Which of the following was a continuation of FDR's New Deal Liberalism?

• Fair Deal

• NSC 68

• Iron Curtain

• Truman Doctrine

Which of the following was a reason Republicans said Truman was weak on communism

• Iron Curtain Speech

• Fair Deal

• Reestablishment of 38th parallel

• The Berlin Airlift

The policy of containment, justified by George Kennan’s 1947 analysis of the international situation, called for

• liberating Eastern Europe form communism

  
  

• destabilizing the Soviet Union

  
  

• curbing United States foreign investment to limit involvement in world conflict

  
  

• • blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence

Which of the following was most responsible for bringing to an end Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign?

• President Truman publicly criticized McCarthy.

  
  

• Television audiences witnessed his manner of leveling unsubstantiated charges.

  
  

• The federal courts issued an injunction against further accusations by McCarthy.

  
  

• McCarthy proved his charges of communist subversion.

  
  

The initial response of the United Stated to the outbreak of war in Korea was to

• seek the cooperation of the People’s Republic of China to end the fighting

  
  

• encourage Japan to rearm

  
  

• increase American aid to Indochina to meet the threat of communist aggression

  
  

• seek collective action against North Korea through the United Nations

  
  

The main goal of the Marshall Plan was to

• speed the economic recovery and democratization of Japan

  
  

• create a strong military alliance between the United States and Western Europe

  
  

• defend Greece and Turkey from communist subversion

  
  

• finance the economic reconstruction of Western Europe

  
  

Which of the following migration patterns had the greatest impact on United States society in the 1950s?

• Immigration of East Asians to the West Coast

  
  

• Migration of Americans from urban centers to the suburbs

  
  

• Migration of American Indians from the Dakotas to California

  
  

• Immigration of eastern and southern Europeans to the United States

  
  

The purpose of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 was to

• retake Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union

  
  

• create an atmosphere of trust in which negotiation with the Soviet Union would have the best chance for success

  
  

• prevent communism from spreading further through military aggression

  
  

• decrease the risk of nuclear war by placing atomic weaponry under the control of the United Nations

  
  

The principal reason for the formation of the Dixiecrat party in 1948 was the opposition of dissident Democrats to President Truman’s

• call for an investigation of the loyalty of all federal employees

  
  

• proposal for civil rights legislation

  
  

• support for the Taft-Hartley Act

  
  

• removal of General MacArthur from his military command