Ch 31-32
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- What was the international state of affairs post WWII?
- USSR vs. US for 3rd world country influence, Anti-colonial uprisings in Asia and Africa – threatened to strip Britain and France of their empires
- Truman grew up in what City/State?
- Kansas City, Kansas
- How did Truman serve in WWI?
- Captain of an artillery battery
- What program of Truman’s was an attempt at “out-dealing the New Deal?â€
- His 21-points program
- When the railroad and coal workers went on strike post WWII, what actions were taken by federal gv’t to resolve the issue?
- The gv’t used its wartime powers to seize the mines and Truman’s interior secretary accepted almost all of the union’s demands.
- Delegates from 50 nations met in the San Francisco opera house in 1945 to draw a charter to create what?
- The United Nations
- What was Truman’s requested $400 million to “contain†communism, and where did it go?
- Truman Doctrine; Greece and Turkey => committed the US to intervene for “containment†purposes
- What was the Marshall Plan?
- US Aid towards European economic recovery in the form of $13 billion
- Truman Doctrine; Greece and Turkey => committed the US to intervene for “containment†purposes
- European economic recovery in the form of $13 billion US Aid towards
- Soviet leaders resented what two things, resulting in the restriction and eventual halting of all traffic into West Berlin?
- The Marshall Plan and political unification of West Germany
- Up until May 1949, when the Berlin wall fell, how was West Berlin supplied?
- Airlift of 13,000 tons/day of food, medicine, coal, and equipment
- What Treaty was signed April 4, 1949, and by what major nations?
- North Atlantic Treaty; US, Britain, France (9 others as well)
- What was the North Atlantic Treaty?
- It pledged that an attack against any of the members would be considered an attack against all and provided for NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- Who was the first black baseball player to be introduced to the major leagues?
- Jackie Robinson
- What were the major platforms of Truman’s reelection campaign of 1948?
- Secure human rights, protect human resources, and increased aid to citizens for the unemployed, retired, and federal aid to education.
- What were five things included in Truman’s Fair Deal?
- Higher minimum Wage, expanded Social Security, extension of rent controls, increased farm subsidies, and a slum-clearance/public-housing plan
- What was Point Four? Was it a success?
- A global Marshall plan; No-never accomplished its goals b/c other international problems arose.
- What were the consequences in US policy when it was discovered that the Soviets had tested an atomic bomb in 1949?
- NSC-68 document: called for the rebuilding of America’s conventional military forces to provide options other than nuclear war
- What was the major precedent set by the declaration of war on North Korea in 1950?
- The war was by order of the president, NOT by vote of Congress
- In 1948, what contributed to the “Red Scare in America?â€
- Alger Hiss- secret documents; several Communist leaders were discovered in America and put on trial
- Who ran in the 1948 election?
- a.Truman (D) b.Dewey (R) c.Truman (Dixiecrat)
- Who was the best salesman of this gospel of reassuring “good news?â€
- Reverend Norman Vincent Peale
- What is neo-orthodoxy?
- The reevaluation of standard doctrine in a more positive light.
- Who was a major spokesman for neo-orthodoxy, who said that “undue complacency and conformity†had settled over postwar life?
- Reinhold Neibuhr- Spiritual peace involves a pain “caused by love and responsibility†for the well-being of the entire human race.
- What was David Riesman’s image of individuals within modern American society?
- The “lonely crowdâ€- individuals without internal values (Death of a Salesman)
- Who were the Beats?
- A controversial group of young writers, poets, painters, and musicians trying to discard traditional conventions.