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