early cold war 1945-1960
which of the following were not among the key decisions made by roosevelt, stalin, and churchill at the yalta conference
the soviets and americans would militarily withdraw from europe after a peace treaty
the crucial origins of the cold war lay in a fundamental disagreement between the united states and the soviet union postwar arrangements in
eastern europe
one of the most significant strctural differences between the old league of nations and the new united nations was the the u.n.
gave a veto in the powerful secruity council to the five great powers
which of the following was not among the early success of the united nations
stopping the spread of atomic weapons
when the soviet union denied the united states, britain, and france access to berlin in 1984, president truman responded by
organizing a gigantic airlift of supplies to berlin
soviet specialist george k. kennan framed a coherent approach for america in the cold war by advising a
containment
president truman risked american access to middle eastern oil supplies when he
recognized the new jewish state of israel
republicans used the communist victory in the chinese civil war to claim dubiously that
pro communist elements in the truman administration had prevented the nationalist chinese leader jiang jieshi and his forces from winning the war
nsc-68 called for
a massive increase in military spending
the nsc-68 document reflected the american belief
in the limitless capabilities of the american economy and society to support a giant reamament program to expand the american military
president truman's action upon hearing of the invasion of south korea illustrated his commitment to forgein policy of
containment
in an effort to detect communists within federal government, president truman est the
loyalty review board
among anticommunists, senator joseph r. mccathy was the
one who most damaged free speech and fair play
a leading liberal american theologian who urged a vigorous american foreign policy and return to christian foundations was
reinhold niebuhr
as a result of senator mccathy's crusade agasint subversion in america
the state department lost a number of asian specialists eho might have counseled a wiser course in vietnam
the passage of the serviceman's readjustment act was partly motivated by
fear that the labor markets could not absorb millions of discharged veterans
in an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the truman administration did all of the following except
countine wartime wage and price control
in 1948, many southern democrats split from their party to support governor j. strom thurmond because
president truman took a strong stand in favor of civil rights
even by the end of 1948 presidential campaign, almost everyone expected governor thomas dewey to win because
president truman seemed umpopular and the democrats had split three ways
president truman's domestic legislative plan was dubbed the
fair deal
the post ww2 prosperity in the united states was most beneficial to
women
much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on the underpinnings of
colossal military budgets
the dramatically reduced number of american farms and farmers in the postwar era was accompanied by
spectacular gains in american agricultural productivity and food growing
since 1945, population in the united states has grown most rapidly in the
sunbelt
much of the sunbelt's new prosperity was based on its
tremendous influx of money from the federal government
all of the following encouraged many post 1945 americans to move to the suburbs except
development of fuel efficient automobiles
by 1960, the proportion of americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately
one out of four
population distribution after ww2 followed a pattern of
an urban suburban segregation of blacks and whites in major metropolitan areas
childern of the baby boom
all of these choices are correct