in this, newspaper said that Thomas Dewey defeated Truman. It would not have been a surprise, since Dixiecrats and Progressives formed their own party and took away Democratic votes. But actually, Truman won despite all odds.

what Truman did to the military in 1948

this was ratified in 1947, due mostly to FDR being elected four times; it basically only allows the president to be elected twice

the fear of communists, socialists, immigrants, and liberal leftists; the first time—the late 1910s and early 1920s—may have been more of a witch hunt than substantive; this 1950s version, however, may have been justified to some degree

has become synonymous with “witch hunt”; named after a Wisconsin Congressman who claimed to know the names of many known communists within the federal government; was so silly that it even ended up seeing the accusation of George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower

the British government arrested German Klaus Fuchs in early 1950; it was soon learned that these two and David Greenglass had helped Fuchs transmit a-bomb secrets to the Soviets; these two were executed for their part in this treachery in 1953

originally created in 1938 to seek out Nazi sympathizers, it turned in the 1940s to investigating communists within the government and Hollywood; Richard Nixon was a major player in it

a group of writers, directors, producers who refused to cooperate with HUAC when investigated in 1947; held in contempt of court, fined, imprisoned; shouting matches with Congress; this case received national attention from the media

not fully convicted by HUAC, he was found guilty of perjury in 1948 because he claimed, while under oath, that he did not know Whitaker Chambers; Richard Nixon made a name for himself by questioning and investigating him; apparently he hid some "government secrets" inside a hallowed out pumpkin, and they were thereafter called the Pumpkin Papers

this is what HUAC stands for

seeking reelection in 1952, this Senator made a name for himself by claiming to know the names of known communists in the US; targeted groups with little power—gays, blacks, Jews, immigrants, and civil rights groups; few of his accusations had any factual basis; his accusations probably worked because America was fearful of the real Soviet threat…when people are emotional, they will believe ridiculous things (“better dead than red”); he was, it should be remembered, only the most vocal critic of communism

a key leader of HUAC, this Congressman made a name for himself for his role in the investigation of Alger Hiss in 1948

circulated by movie producers, these kept people from being hired within Hollywood if they were on it; you could find your name on this if you were suspected of having communist ties

accusing this organization of hiding numerous communists was what brought Joseph McCarthy's downfall

during the Truman administration, many federal government employees were required to take these in order to prove that they were not Nazis or communists

while Truman did not battle McCarthyism as strongly as he could have, Eisenhower was very vocal, telling the nation to not "join the book-burners." Eisenhower became president because of this term below

Which of the following things were advances in Civil Rights during the Truman years? Select all that are correct

a huge population explosion that occurred in the US after WWII that led to the largest generation of Americans in recent history growing up during the 1950s and 1960s

the model of a post-WWII (late 40s and 1950s) suburb

this writer did not tell parents to spoil their children, but he did insist that children be permitted to express themselves openly in family meetings; some of his opponents have said that children raised under his methods ended up being the spoiled generation of the 1960s protest movement; others say that he helped move America away from a culture of child abuse

he developed a vaccine for polio, which helped provide a defense against a disease that crippled many Americans, including FDR and Mr. Beavers' grandfather

this law reflected the fact that Americans were more mobile and needed better roads when travelling long distances; it also had Cold War implications, as overpass bridges had to be high enough to allow huge missiles to be transported underneath

the unofficial, non-shooting conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States (1945-1991)

established in 1944 as an international peacekeeping organization, one that would be better than the League of Nations; the US, China, France, USSR, and Britain all had veto power

prosecuted Nazi war criminals; a high point of post-WWII American-Soviet relations

was occupied by Britain, France, and the US after WWII; it eventually became a democracy that Stalin felt threatened by

the location of a Jewish homeland that was established in Palestine, in 1947, by the UN; Muslim Arab Palestinians were displaced from their homes in some areas and there have been issues there ever since; Egypt led a coalition of Arab countries to attack this place, but the Arab nations were defeated

occupied by the Soviets after WWII, this country became communist; it also had inside it the city of Berlin, which was half democratic and half communist

the American foreign policy statement that worked to keep communist influence from spreading any further than it had up to 1946

also called the European Recovery Program; brainchild of former Army Chief of Staff and Truman Secretary of State; established in response to fear that Italy and France would go communist; massive amounts of money funneled to war-torn Western Europe in order to rebuild; less likely to go commy if aided at this crucial time

from 1948-49, Stalin blockaded Berlin when West Germany was unified out of the former occupation zones; no Western influence was allowed in or out; Truman responded not with bombs, but with supplies flown in; eventually the Soviets backed down, although East Berlin remained under communist control; ended when Stalin agreed to a conference on the future of Germany, but this ended in stalemate when Stalin refused to accept a reunified Germany

Truman’s pledge of U.S. support for the pro-Western governments of Greece and Turkey—and, by extension, any similarly threatened government. His argument was that the United States had a duty to support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

its creation in 1949 was spurred on by the Berlin crisis and the fall of Czechoslovakia; it is a mutual defense alliance of Western democracies (Western Europe, Canada, US); it was meant to be a counter to Soviet power and to be a way to protect all member nations in the case of a Soviet attack

Winston Churchill’s speech in Missouri in 1946 in which he said that half of Europe was free, the other half was dominated by tyrannical Soviet influence

Truman had hoped that ALL nuclear power and weapons would be placed under UN control, but the Soviets rejected this plan in the Security Council in 1946; instead, the Soviets proceeded to construct their own atomic bomb, with the help of stealing secrets from the Americans; they tested their first a-bomb in this year

according to Content Statement 23 from the End of Course exam curriculum, having a nuclear arsenal basically made America the only _______________; when the Soviets got their own nukes in 1949, they became the world's second ____________

a conflict in China that lasted from the 1920s until 1949; the two sides included Chiang and Mao; Mao and his forces won in 1949 and suddenly it didn't look like containment policies were working!!!

the North invaded the South in 1950; the North almost won early on, pushing the South back to the Pusan defensive zone; MacArthur led UN troops to liberate the South; his amphibious landing at Inchon started to turn the tide of the conflict; when MacArthur's troops got too close to the Yalu River, China got involved on the side of the North and pushed back to the original North-South divide near the 38th parallel; Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 and got the US out of this conflict in 1953

Who led the American forces in the Pacific during WWII, essentially wrote the new Japanese constitution on an American ship, led the UN forces during the Korean War, was fired by Truman, and then "faded away"?