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WorksheetsRevision: Basics of US system and Truman
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 46mins
At the beginning of our topic, which political party dominated the 'Deep south'?
Democrats
Republicans
Who, within the US constitution had the power to declare war on other nations?
The President
Congress
Supreme court
What ambitious policy had Roosevelt been responsible for in order to allow the USA to recover from the Great Depression?
New Frontier
New Deal
Fair Deal
Which of these are correct reasons for many people believing that Roosevelt had increased the power of the Presidency.
Use of the Nuclear weapon
Role as commander in chief during WW2
Negotiations on the nations behalf at wartime conferences
Three election victories and 'fireside chats'
Who selected the candidates to sit on the Supreme court?
Congress
Senate
President (solely)
President (with approval by the senate)
What war time policy had seen the US financially support countries such as Britain and China with war materiel?
Lend-lease
Defenders of democracy
Taft-Hartley Act
Which of these were cities that had benefitted from the need to produce weapons quickly during WW2?
Pittsburgh
New York
Detroit
Chicago
WASPS were often the wealthiest and most politically dominant ethnicity within the USA. But, where were the poorest white communities in the USA?
Deep south
Vermont
Appalachian mountains
The 'dust bowl'
Which of these states were former 'slaveholding states' within the USA?
Texas
Arkansas
Florida
Virginia
New Mexico
The poorest African American inhabitants of the south often had to maintain place to live by ...
sharecropping
factory work
working on plantations
working as domestic servants
Where did the Native Americans live?
Kansas
Indiana
Reservations
Ghettos
What bill signed in 1944 offered low interest loans, 52 week unemployment pay for ex-servicemen and access to college or vocational courses?
Taft-Hartley
GI bill
Cessation
How many returning servicemen were there when war ended in 1945?
8 million
9 million
10 million
12 million
Up until WW2, US foreign policy would be described as ...
(a)
True or false: Harry Truman had served in France in WW1?
True
False
What state did Harry Truman grow up in?
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Missouri
What was the first wartime conference held between the main three allied powers?
Potsdam
Tehran
Yalta
Stalin believed that he had been promised influence over what particular territory at the Yalta conference?
Albania
Hungary
Poland
Czechoclovakia
Where did the US drop atomic bombs on Japan, in order to hasten the end of WW2?
Tokyo
Nassaka
Iwojima
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Why was there such distrust between Stalin and Truman by the time of the Potsdam conference?
The US had not informed USSR of Atom bomb creation (But Stalin knew through spies)
Kennan's long telegram
Stalin and Roosevelt had built up a personal relationship
Opposing ideologies (capitalism vs. communism)
What did Kennan's long telegram (1946) state about the Soviet Union?
That they only wanted to preserve communism in the USSR
That communism was 'expansionist'
That the USSR was hell bent on confronting capitalism
What famous speech given by Churchill at Fulton Missouri, demonstrated the West's view of the USSR?
(a)
Which two countries was Truman increasingly concerned would fall to communism by 1947?
Greece and Albania
Greece and Turkey
Italy and Greece
Yugoslavia and Greece
What term is used to describe the motives behind Truman's foreign policy?
(a)
What was the name of the speech given by Truman in 1947, explaining his willingness to defend Europe from the 'threat' of communism?
Truman doctrine
Eisenhower doctrine
Lend-lease
Truman famously stated that the Truman doctrine and Marshall aid were two halves of the same ...
(a)
How much money was distributed to help rebuild European nations as a result of the Marshall plan?
$12.5 billion
$12 billion
$13.5 billion
$14 billion
What political crises was sparked by the joining of three zones of occupation known as trizonia within Berlin?
Berlin wall crisis
Brain drain
Berlin blockade
Operation vittels
By what year had the Berlin blockade ended?
1948
1947
1949
What defence pact was agreed by Western European powers in 1949?
United nations
NATO
SEATO
What was the Warsaw Pact, set up in 1955?
An agreement to be directly ruled by Stalin
A defence alliance to match NATO
A way of providing economic aid
Who was the leader of nationalist China?
Chiang-Kai Shek
Kim Il Sung
Mao Ze Dong
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist party?
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Ze Dong
Kim Il Sung
What island did nationalist forces hang onto, China still believes it is part of their land?
Korea
Taiwan
Taipei
Tibet
In 1948, the US government gave how much money to the Chinese nationalists?
$500 million
$2 billion
$400 million
$13.5 billion
On the 25th June in what year did the Korean War begin?
1947
1948
1949
1950
What organisation did Truman use to declare war in Korea?
NATO
SEATO
United nations
Select the reasons why the Asian powers in the UN could not stop a declaration of war in Korea.
The UN had been established by the United states at the end of the war
Soviet Union had no seat within the UN
Communist China was not represented in the UN
Soviets couldn't veto because they were not present as protest at Communist China not having own seat
Where in Asia did Truman support imperial powers in their quest to maintain power?
Japan
North Korea
Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
In 1945, Korea had been divided between the USA and the USSR at what parallel?
17th parallel
18th parallel
25th parallel
38th parallel
Who was originally in charge of the UN forces in Korea?
General Eisenhower
General Marshall
General Douglas Macarthur
True or false: At the beginning of the war the communist northern forces managed to take the southern capital Seoul
True
False
Who was the leader of North Korea?
Josef Stalin
Kim Il Sung
Mao Ze Ding
Select the reasons why the United states fought in Korea.
By 1949 the USSR also had an Atomic bomb
Defence paper NSC 68 stated need for US military action
Failure of containment in Asia could damage strength of Europe
Easy to use the UN and gain support from other allies
What year had Truman lost China to communism?
1948
1946
1949
Select the differences in US behaviour towards Japan compared to elsewhere in Asia.
Those involved in WW2 hunted down mercilessly
A no-war clause was put into constitution
$500 million put into the country to westernise and rebuild
How high was inflation by 1946?
20%
25%
30%
Which organisation (that could have frozen prices) did Truman fail to get renewed in congress?
Office for fixation administration
Office of Price Administration
NRA
By 1945 what percentage of US workers were in a Union?
25%
35%
28%
38%
Which of these statements are true of the Taft Hartley Act?
The president could order a cooling off period before a strike
The Republicans overrode the Presidential veto to pass the act
Unions were no longer able to sign up working members
The whole of the USA steel industry stopped as a result of the act
True or false: Truman was able to get a majority of his legislation through congress
True
False
Why was Truman able to win the 1949 election?
The rural vote (Truman came from a farming state)
Thomas E Dewey's speeches were too simple
Truman's whistle stop tour saw him travel 30,000 miles
Southern democrats campaigned on behalf of Truman
Who was the Southern Democrat that ran against Truman in 1949
George Wallace
Orval Faubus
Strom Thurmond
Truman's fair deal did have some successes including:
Medicare health care insurance
Social security extended
Minimum wage increase
Urban housing for lower income
Who was in charge of the FBI in the 40s and 50s and helped increase the red scare?
Joseph McCarthy
J Edgar Hoover
Herbert Hoover
HUAC stood for ...
House Uncommunist action committee
House un-american activities committee
House ultra-anti-communist committee
What prominent Republican politician was a member of HUAC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Senator McCarthy
True or false: McCarthyism and HUAC are separate, but both concerned about communism
True
False
Which US group in particular gained a lot of scrutiny from HUAC
African-Americans
Communists
Hollywood
Washington
Which of these are true of McCarthy
He was a war hero
He was from a poor Irish farming background
He defeated election opponents using anti-communist propaganda
He gave his 'enemy from within speech' in 1950
Which play was written by Arthur Miller as a criticism of HUAC and McCarthy
Salem witch trials
Crucible
Two men and a door
Which of these are the names of spies unearthed during Truman's presidency
Alger Hiss
Ethel Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg
Fidel Castro
Which of these are reasons as to why McCarthy was able to get away with the hysteria he created
Land in Asia was being lost to communism
Truman needed a scared country to pass many of his foreign policy objectives
McCarthy was fed information from J. Edgar Hoover
Fear o Communism and been widespread from as far back as the 1920s
Which of these latin terms means 'in law'?
De jure
De facto
Which of these terms means 'in reality'?
De facto
De jure
Which of these factors prevented African Americans from voting in the South?
White officials controlled voting system
Physical intimidation
It was illegal for African Americans to vote
Impossible questions were asked such as 'how many bubbles in a bar of soap?'
Taxes were levied making it economically difficult to vote
Why were African Americans less likely to benefit from the GI Bill of rights?
They weren't allowed to it was only for whites
Giving out the benefits was the responsibility of the states
Not always made aware of higher education chances
The candidates had to earn a certain amount before qualifying
What did the 'Plessy Vs. Ferguson' case show to be legal according to white southerners?
Jim Crow
Lesser voting rights
KKK
Which of these groups were actively campaigning for Civil Rights improvements under Truman?
SCLC
SNCC
CORE
NAACP
Which of these cases by the NAACP successfully showed segregation in interstate travel to be illegal
Sweatt vs, Paynter
Morgan vs. Virginia
Shelley vs. Kraemer
Which of these NAACP cases proved that covenants banning ethnic minorities from living in certain neighbourhoods were illegal
Sweatt vs. Paynter
Morgan vs. Virgina
Shelley vs. Kraemer
Truman showed moral leadership over Civil Rights. True or false?
True
False
What was the name of the Civil Rights report administered by Truman in 1947?
'To secure our hopes'
'To secure these rights'
'To secure our rights'
In 1947 CORE insitigated their 'rides of reconciliation' campaign. In what ways was this different from the actions of the NAACP?
Relied solely on challenging in court
Aimed at provoking southerners to break laws
Wanted to prove that de facto and de jure were completely different
In 1948, Truman issued an executive order that did what?
Ban segregation in armed forces
ban segregation in armed forces and federal work places
Ban Jim Crow
What was the name of the African American soldier assaulted on a bus when returning from WW2?
Emmett Till
Isaac Woodard
Bernd Rustyn
Select the successes of Truman's presidency
8 million veterans went to college
Unemployment very low
By end of the 1940s 80% of world's cars made in USA
Minimum wage had increased
Korean war had been ended
