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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -McCarthyism

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Fully discuss and examine the limitations placed on freedom during the Cold War. Then compare those circumstances with those during the Red Scare after World War I. What was the same? What was different? Were restrictions on civil liberties justified in both cases? Why, or why not? How did Americans react in each era?

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MATCHING -Truman Doctrine


A) unionization to the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy

N) None of the above
O) A) and D)

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MATCHING -Fair Deal


A) unionization to the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy

N) F) and I)
O) D) and L)

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In "Who Is Loyal to America?" Henry Steele Commager:


A) supports the efforts of people like Senator McCarthy.
B) favors the new meaning given to loyalty: conformity.
C) believes that the communists in America pose a serious threat.
D) is bitter since he was accused of having communist sympathies by HUAC.
E) believes that the narrow definition of loyalty denied freedom of thought.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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MATCHING -Henry Wallace


A) accused Alger Hiss of being a spy
B) Korean War commander
C) 1948 Progressive Party candidate
D) critic of the Cold War
E) prosecuted by HUAC
F) "Who Is Loyal to America?"
G) author of containment doctrine
H) black baseball star
I) Fair Deal
J) Senator from Wisconsin
K) chaired committee on Human Rights
L) convicted nuclear spies

M) E) and F)
N) A) and B)

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Operation Dixie was a failed attempt by organized labor to unionize the South.

A) True
B) False

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The principle of human rights-the idea of basic rights belonging to all persons because they are human-was introduced into international relations:


A) after the Holocaust.
B) after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
C) when NATO was established.
D) in the late eighteenth century during the American and French Revolutions.
E) when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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MATCHING -Long Telegram


A) unionization to the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy

N) A) and I)
O) J) and M)

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The Dixiecrats:


A) opposed segregation in the South.
B) opposed desegregation in the South.
C) dominated the Democratic Party in 1948.
D) were led by Hubert Humphrey.
E) supported Harry Truman in 1948.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Overall, despite good intentions the Marshall Plan was not very successful.

A) True
B) False

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Who did the States' Rights Party nominate for president in 1948?


A) Strom Thurmond
B) Henry Wallace
C) Joe McCarthy
D) George Wallace
E) Thomas Dewey

F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Describe how the Cold War helped to reshape freedom's meaning, identifying freedom ever more closely with anticommunism, free enterprise, and the defense of the social and economic status quo. You may wish to include information from the "Voices of Freedom" excerpts in your answer.

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All of the following are enactments of the policy of containment EXCEPT:


A) the Truman Doctrine
B) the Marshall Plan
C) the Berlin Airlift
D) the Korean War
E) the Warsaw Pact

F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

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MATCHING -NSC-68


A) unionization to the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy

N) C) and D)
O) G) and J)

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What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?


A) They were all communists and did want to indict themselves.
B) Ronald Reagan had threatened that they would lose their jobs if they cooperated.
C) They were all busy making movies and did not have time to attend the hearings.
D) They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.
E) As Republicans, they were insulted that their loyalty was being questioned.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Comment on Henry Luce's statement that "freedom" was the best word he could use to explain America to the rest of the world. Why do you think he picked that word? How did the Cold War affect that choice? How would you describe America to the rest of the world in 1952?

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The "Iron Curtain":


A) separated the free West from the communist East.
B) divided East and West Germany.
C) separated the United States from the Soviet Union.
D) separated Japan from the rest of Asia.
E) divided North and South Korea.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The 1948 presidential race:


A) was a three-way race.
B) was the last presidential race to occur before television forever changed campaigning.
C) ended the movement of southern Democrats into the Republican Party.
D) highlighted gender as a campaign issue.
E) was won by Strom Thurmond.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War.

A) True
B) False

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