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) A and B
F) A) and D)
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A) the Soviet Union.
B) Germany.
C) Japan.
D) Great Britain.
F) None of the above
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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.
F) A) and B)
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A) had the full support of the Senate during his anticommunist crusade.
B) successfully uncovered the communist infiltration of the federal government.
C) successfully uncovered the communist infiltration of the U.S. army.
D) was an embarrassment to his party by 1954.
F) All of the above
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A) Protests erupted in a number of cities over the required recitation of the Freedom Pledge and signing of the Freedom Scroll for access to the exhibit.
B) American Heritage Foundation members were unhappy the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were withdrawn from the documents to be displayed.
C) The Wagner Act, the law guaranteeing workers' right to form unions, was removed from inclusion in the documents display.
D) The international press criticized the spectacle accompanying the American train when millions of people were suffering amid the ruins of World War II.
F) B) and C)
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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.
F) A) and C)
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A) realpolitik.
B) massive retaliation.
C) containment.
D) dependency.
F) None of the above
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A) was aided by the United States in rebuilding its postwar industrial base to establish a strong economic counter to communism in the Far East.
B) was under the control of the supreme commander Douglas MacArthur from the end of the war until 1948.
C) was aided economically by the United States after the war, but saw very little interference with its political structure.
D) A and B
F) A) and B)
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A) They pointed to the interracial society of the Soviet Union as a warning sign.
B) They stressed the fact that African-Americans were twenty times more likely to be communist than whites.
C) They pointed out that the United States' only reliable ally against the Soviet Union was the apartheid regime of South Africa.
D) They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda.
F) B) and C)
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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.
F) A) and C)
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A) Puerto Rico.
B) The Philippines.
C) Wake Island.
D) Guam.
F) A) and C)
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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.
F) All of the above
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A) U.S. forces had hoped to include Poland in the western European security pact that later became known at NATO.
B) The Soviet Union had ruled Poland brutally prior to the war and was responsible for most of the killings that took place there in the war.
C) Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.
D) Americans feared that Soviet control of Poland would make it easier for the Red Army to capture and control all of Germany.
F) A) and C)
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A) the ideas of the American Revolution.
B) Radical Republicanism during Reconstruction.
C) actions of the United States in Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
D) the American justification for entering World War I.
F) B) and C)
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A) advocated expanded social welfare programs.
B) supported segregation.
C) supported Truman's civil rights proposals.
D) agreed with Truman's Cold War policies.
F) None of the above
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A) promoted the work of artist Norman Rockwell.
B) censored the work of modern artists.
C) funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.
D) sought to censor the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
F) A) and C)
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A) provided economic assistance to the Soviets.
B) was a U.S.-Soviet program to rebuild Europe.
C) offered economic assistance to noncommunist governments.
D) was limited in scope and focused on West Germany.
F) None of the above
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A) The United Nations authorized the use of forces to repel the North Koreans.
B) Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.
C) General MacArthur argued for an invasion of China and for the use of nuclear weapons.
D) Truman removed General MacArthur from his command when he publicly criticized Truman.
F) A) and C)
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