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Question 1
What policy was a result of
the long telegram?
Containment policy
Question 2
What was the purpose of
Project Venona?
Crack the Soviet spy code
Question 3
The State’s Rights Party formed for
the 1948 election as a reaction to
what?
Truman’s support of civil rights
Question 4
To benefit from a cheaper
labor pool, some businesses
in the 1950s began to do
what?
Expand overseas
Question 5
Popular support for Joseph
McCarthy began to fade
when?
Millions watched him bully
witnesses in televised
hearings investigating the
Army
Question 6
U.N. troops in Korea were
driven back across the 38th
parallel in an attack by what
country?
China
Question 7
What was the purpose of the
Marshall Plan?
Help Western Europe recover
Question 8
What did the leaders agree
to at Yalta?
Divide Germany among the 4
Allied powers
Question 9
African Americans who lived
in urban centers in the
1950s often did what?
Remained stuck in low-paying
jobs
Question 10
Why did the Egyptians seize
control of the Suez Canal?
Use the canal’s profits to pay
for the dam
Question 11
The Eisenhower Doctrine
gave the President the
authority to do what?
Use armed force to help
Middle East nations resist
Communist aggression
Question 12
Where did the sounds of Rock
n Roll come from?
Rhythm and Blues
Question 13
NATO formed for the
purpose of what?
Mutual defense
Question 14
After WWII, labor unrest was
triggered by what?
Rising inflation
Question 15
In his book The Other
America, Michael Harrington
wrote about what?
poverty
Question 16
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
were charged with what?
Passing atomic secrets to the
Soviets
Question 17
Many of the early television
comedy shows were adapted
from popular what?
Radio shows
Question 18
What did the McCarran Act
allow?
The arrest of Communists in
case of a national
emergency
Question 19
When the U.S., Britain, and
France merged their zones
in Germany, the Soviet
Union responded how?
Blockading West Berlin
Question 20
After the launch of Sputnik in
1957, efforts began in the U.S.
to do what?
Improve math & science
Question 21
What did the Taft-Hartley Act
do?
Allowed right-to-work laws
Question 22
The Truman Doctrine
resulted in what?
Pledge to fight communism
Question 23
The development of the
transistor made possible what?
Miniaturization of radios
Question 24
President Truman ended the
miners’ strike by ordering
government seizure of the
mines while pressuring mine
owners to do what?
Grant most union demands
Question 25
What epidemic brought a
wave of terror to postwar
America?
Polio
Question 26
How did Joseph McCarthy
create the media frenzy that
began his witch hunt.
Saying that he had a list of
Communists employed by
the State Department
Question 27
As a result of the GI Bill,
many returning soldiers did
what?
Received low interest loans to
buy suburban houses
Question 28
According to John Galbraith,
postwar America had an
“economy of abundance”
because why?
New business techniques
&improved technology
Question 29
For many Americans, what
did the suburbs symbolize?
The American dream
Question 30
Why did Truman fire
MacArthur?
MacArthur demanded
Truman’s approval to
expand the war
Question 31
How did President
Eisenhower describe his
political beliefs?
Middle of the road
Question 32
Eisenhower used the term “creeping
socialism” to refer to what?
Federal aid to businesses
Question 33
To prevent Communist
revolutions in developing
countries, Eisenhower used
what?
Covert Operations
Question 34
Truman’s first meeting with
the Soviet Foreign Minister
marked a shift in SovietAmerican relations because
why?
Truman strongly confronted
Molotov
Question 35
Truman said the Truman
Doctrine and Marshall Plan
were essential for what?
Containment
Question 36
What was the most popular
T.V. show of the 1950s?
I Love Lucy
Question 37
The government unwittingly
encouraged residents of
public housing to remain
poor how?
Evicting them as soon as they
began to earn any money
Question 38
The federal government's
termination policy was
intended to do what?
Bring Native Americans into
mainstream society
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