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| ID THE PROBLEMS HARRY TRUMAN FACED AS AN ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT |
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| The new president confronted domestic problems that the New Deal had not solved—how to sustain economic growth and avoid another depression without the war to fuel the economy—and international challenges that threatened to undermine the nation's security and called for bold international initiatives. |
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| EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF A COLD WAR AND THE ISSUES THAT LED TO THE DETERIORATION OF US-SOVIET UNION RELATIONS AT THE END OF WWII |
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| This war was said to be "cold" because the hostility stopped short of armed (hot) conflict, which was warded off by the strategy of nuclear deterrence. |
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| U.S. foreign policy developed after World War II to hold in check the power and influence of the Soviet Union and other groups or nations espousing communism. |
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| the political, ideological, and military barriers that separated Sovietcontrolled Eastern Europe from the rest of Europe and the West following World War II. |
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| DEFINE DOMINO THEORY AND TRUMAN DOCTRINE |
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DOMINO THEORY- U.S. foreign policy from the early cold war until the end of the Vietnam War. The theory was that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries also would fall under Communist control.
TRUMAN DOCTRINE - President Harry S. Truman's assertion that American security depended on stopping any Communist government from taking over any non- Communist government—even nondemocratic and repressive dictatorships—anywhere in the world. Beginning in 1947 with American aid to help Greece and Turkey stave off Communist pressures, this approach became a cornerstone of American foreign policy during the cold war. |
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| EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE AND OUTCOME OF THE MARSHALL PLAN AND ANALYZE THE SOVIET RESPONSE |
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| the United States spent $13 billion to restore the economies of sixteen Western European nations. Marshall invited all European nations and the Soviet Union to cooperate in a request for aid, but as administration officials expected, the Soviets objected to the American terms of free trade and financial disclosure and ordered their Eastern European satellites likewise to reject the offer. |
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| IDENTIFY THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND THE US RESPONSE |
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the Soviets retaliated by blocking roads and rail lines between West Germany and the Western-held sections of Berlin
for nearly a year, U.S. and British pilots airlifted 2.3 million tons of goods to sustain the West Berliners. Stalin hesitated to shoot down these cargo planes, and in 1949 he lifted the blockade. |
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| ANALYZE THE CONCEPTS OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE , COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND NATO |
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NUCLEAR DETERRENCE The strategy of deterrence dictated that the United States would maintain a nuclear arsenal so substantial that the Soviet Union would refrain from attacking the United States and its allies out of fear that the United States would retaliate in devastating proportions. The Soviets pursued a similar strategy.
COLLECTIVE SECURITY An association of independent nations that agree to accept and implement decisions made by the group, including going to war in defense of one or more members. The United States resolutely avoided such alliances until after World War II, when it created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
NATO the United States joined Canada and Western European nations in its first peacetime military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), designed to counter a Soviet threat to Western Europe |
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| ID THE NEW FEDERAL AGENCIES CREATED BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT OF 1947 |
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National Security Council (NSC) to advise the president
Department of War became the Department of Defense,
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) not only to gather information but also to perform any “functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security” that the NSC might authorize. |
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| CHARACTERIZE THE FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES FACED BY TRUMMAN IN EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST |
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| EVALUATE THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF TRUMAN'S FAIR DEAL |
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| EXPLAIN THE PROBLEMS OF CONVERTING FROM WARTIME TO A PEACE TIME ECONOMY |
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| Inflation, not unemployment, turned out to be the most severe problem in the early postwar years. |
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| ID THE MAJOR PARTICIPANTS AND ACTIVITIES OF POST WAR CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS OF MEXICAN AMERICANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS |
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Committee on Civil Rights, Congress rebuffed Truman's proposals for civil rights legislation, but eleven states outlawed discrimination in employment, and eighteen banned discrimination in public accommodations.
the American GI Forum - |
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| EXPLAIN THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT'S IMPACT ON LABOR |
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| the law reduced the power of organized labor and made it more difficult to organize workers. it put the government more squarely between labor and management. |
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| EXPLAIN THE PROBLEMS PRESIDENT TRUMAN FACED IN THE 1948 ELECTION |
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| resurgent Republican Party headed by its nominee, Thomas E. Dewey, but also two revolts within his own party |
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| DEFINE DIXIECRATS AND ID PROMINENT ONES |
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| South Carolina governor J. Strom Thurmond headed the States' Rights Party—the Dixiecrats—formed by southern Democrats who had walked out of the 1948 Democratic Party convention when it passed a liberal civil rights plank. |
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| EXPLAIN THE RISE AND FALL OF MCCARTHYISM IN THE US |
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Revelations of Soviet espionage gave some credibility to fears of internal communism.
Army-McCarthy hearings made him loose popularity |
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| analyze the impact of mccarthyism in the us |
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| McCarthyism caused untold economic and psychological harm to individuals innocent of breaking any law. Thousands of people were humiliated and discredited, hounded from their jobs, even in some cases imprisoned. The anti-Communist crusade violated fundamental constitutional rights of freedom of speech and association, |
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| explain the issues and participants in the korean war and why it was officially a un police action |
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Having expelled the Japanese, who had controlled Korea since 1904, the United States and the Soviet Union created two occupation zones separated by the thirty-eighth parallel
The Soviets supported the Korean Communist Party in the north, while the United States backed the Korean Democratic Party in the south.
the United Nations sponsored elections in South Korea. |
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| id the isssues and candidates in the 1952 presidential election |
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The Republicans General Dwight D. Eisenhower (won)
The Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson |
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