A) Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in the place that did not know democracy.
B) Acheson was urging the gathering of cotton planters to automate production, while the Democrats were pushing for fair wages for black farmworkers.
C) Acheson was delivering a speech meant for new African-American Democrats in Mississippi to a gathering of white supremacists.
D) The Under Secretary of State was warning the same audience against the Cold War that had already heard Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech a month prior.
E) Acheson had delivered the same speech to the council the year before.
G) B) and C)
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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.
G) None of the above
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B) False
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A) Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift.
B) Truman put American forces on high alert and threatened atomic war if Stalin did not lift the blockade.
C) Truman ignored it.
D) Truman asked the United Nations to place an embargo on all goods going to the Soviet Union.
E) American forces forced their way through the road blockade with a caravan of armored tanks.
G) A) and C)
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B) False
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A) attempted to unionize 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
O) A) and J)
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A) attempted to unionize 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
O) A) and L)
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A) The organization would keep both the United States and the Soviet Union in check.
B) NATO would prevent the expansion of the British empire as well as of American imperialism.
C) The pact would guard them against Soviet aggression as well as against the resurgence of a powerful Germany.
D) NATO would contain communism but also contain the costs of defense for European nations.
E) NATO would counterbalance Soviet influence and that of the United Nations.
G) A) and D)
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A) FDR had privately urged his advisers that the wartime friendly relationship between both nations could never last.
B) Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values.
C) It was clear as early as the Tehran conference that Stalin had never intended to follow through on any of the Grand Alliance agreements.
D) Exploitation of Iran's northern oil fields suggested the Soviet Union was already ahead of the United States in postwar economic development.
E) The Soviet Union had not fulfilled its obligations from the Yalta Conference.
G) A) and C)
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B) False
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A) was quite limited at the time.
B) was beneficial because the Urban League accepted communists into its ranks.
C) included government action against black leaders.
D) caused the NAACP to enlist the aid of the Soviets.
E) brought wider support for civil rights from southern Democrats who wanted to fight communism.
G) A) and C)
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A) attempted to unionize 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
O) C) and H)
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A) The president was an outspoken homophobe.
B) Joseph McCarthy's announcement that there were over fifty homosexuals in the State Department had forced Truman's hand.
C) Homosexuals were legally prohibited from working for the government.
D) Homosexuals were considered susceptible to blackmail and thought to be lacking the manly qualities necessary to fight communism.
E) Truman was alleged to be gay himself and sought to deflect any suspicions.
G) A) and E)
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A) She acted as the U.S. representative in attendance at the Nuremburg Trials.
B) She chaired the committee that drafted the United Nation's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
C) She became an outspoken critic of communist independence movements around the world.
D) She traveled to China in an attempt to broker an end to the bitter civil war.
E) She was the first U.S. official to visit Japan after the end of WWII.
G) A) and C)
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A) attempted to unionize 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
O) E) and M)
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A) The numbers were ever shrinking in proportion to northern Democrats.
B) The strong migration westward had significantly reduced the southern Democratic constituency.
C) President Truman used the convention to bolster the position of his fellow Democrats from the northeastern establishment.
D) Party liberals under the leadership of Hubert Humphrey had added a strong civil rights plank to the party platform.
E) The success of Republicans in the South was eroding the constituency base for southern Democrats.
G) B) and D)
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A) Members of the national press corps who covered the story of Strom Thurmond's breakaway from the Democratic Party.
B) Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."
C) Southern labor organizers who campaigned against passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.
D) Republicans who favored maintaining segregation in the South in support of the principle of states' rights.
E) Members of the Commission on Civil Rights.
G) B) and E)
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A) It made it difficult to discern legitimate postwar struggles for economic and political freedom from those simply motivated by American interests.
B) It suggested that the United States would align itself against postwar colonial independence movements in the name of anticommunism.
C) It prevented any long-term establishment of a diplomatic presence in Moscow.
D) It unfortunately positioned the United States as the leader in military aggression, rather than a beacon of peace.
E) A and B
G) C) and E)
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B) False
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