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| What was the name of the first and second Bikini Island tests? |
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| What type of test was Abel and what type was Baker? |
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Abel=atmospheric
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| What was the biggest test at Bikini Island and what type of bomb was it? |
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| Where did most of the US bomb tests take place? |
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| Nevada Test Site (NTS/Nevada Proving Grounds) |
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| What two countries could GB no longer provide financial aid to? |
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| Why is the US concerned with Greece and Turkey? |
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| They are both being pressured by communists |
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| Did the US help Greece and Turkey not fall to the communists? |
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| Who said that if Greece and Turkey fell then communism would spread as far as Iran and India? |
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| Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson |
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| What the Truman Doctrine state? |
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| That it must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures |
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| What does bi-partisan mean? |
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| Both parties (Reps and Dems) |
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| Who came up with the policy of containment? |
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| Foreign Service officer George Kennan, |
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| Who proposed the Marshall Plan? |
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| Secretary of State George C. Marshall |
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| What did the Marshall Plan do? |
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| Billions of dollars to the countries for the economic recovery of Europe but they had to buy American goods and provide investment opportunities for American capital |
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| What was the objective of the Marshall Plan? |
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| To improve living conditions of Europe end the need for continued American relief funds |
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| What were the achievements of the Marshall Plan? |
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| Promoted miraculous economic recovery, furthered political stability, reduced communist influence, encouraged the economic unity of Western Europe |
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| A global ideological conflict between democracy and communism |
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| A movement of anti-communist hysteria that reached its peak in the 1950s |
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| What did the Truman administration promulgate in 1947? |
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| A loyalty security program that barred communists or people who associated with communists from govt. jobs |
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| Why did the Truman administration and Supreme Court allow the civil rights of citizens to be threatened and limited during the Red Scare? |
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| Primarily because of the widespread belief that communism so endangered the nation’s security that the rights of individuals, especially those supposed to be communists, could be ignored |
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| How was anti-communism used for partisan purposes? |
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| Republican Party sought to capitalize on the alleged communist infiltration of the New Deal |
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| HUAC: Full name, year established, main objective, 3 major things it did |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee, 1937, Main objective was the investigation of Un-American and subversive activities, loyalty oaths/KKK/Hollywood |
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| What were required by loyalty oaths? |
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| All govt. employees were required to take loyalty oaths and declare that they were not nor ever had been communists |
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| Did HUAC ever do anything to the KKK and why? |
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| No, many in HUAC supported the KKK |
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| When did HUAC investigate Hollywood? |
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| What did HUAC decide about Hollywood? |
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| Declared that Hollywood filmmakers employed subtle techniques in pictures glorifying the communist system |
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| What was the Hollywood Ten? |
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| Ten of the 41 people called in by HUAC refused to answer the question “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?” |
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| What was decided about HUAC and the Hollywood Ten? |
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| HUAC and the courts during appeals disagreed and all were found guilty of contempt of Congress and each was sentenced to between 6 and 12 months in prison |
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| When your name was added to a blacklist drawn up by Hollywood film studios (normally because you were suspected of communism or refused to name names of communists) and you would not be hired |
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| What were the three main demographic changes in the post-WWII era? |
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| Mobility, Sunbelts, Movement to the suburbs |
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| Describe the mobility demographic change. What was a result of it? |
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| Americans moved more freely and the distance between families grew, parents did not recieve instruction from their parents on how to care for their children |
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| Texas to Arizona and Virginia to Florida |
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| Why did people move to the Sunbelts? |
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| Jobs, it’s warm, more land, cheaper land, lower taxes, defense contracts went to these places, federal funding helps the growth of the sunbelts |
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| Who moved to the suburbs? |
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| Upper and middle class whites |
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| What two organizations made it economical to own a house in the suburbs? |
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| Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and the Veterans Administration Home Loan Guarantees |
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| What was Levittown, where was it, and who built it? |
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| Levitt brothers built Levittown on NY's Long Island, built hundreds of the same designed houses in a single project |
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| What was the movement of white Americans moving to the suburbs called? |
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| Who fills the void in the cities left by the White Flight? |
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| What happens to cities because of the White Flight? |
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| They are left black, barren, and broke (business moves with the whites) |
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| What was the deal with Alger Hiss (when, who, what happened)? |
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| In August 1948 Whittaker Chambers told HUAC that Alger Hiss (president of the Carnagie Endowment for International Peace) was a communist spy |
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| Who was responsible for the Alger Hiss trial going further? |
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| By what name did Hiss know Chambers? |
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| Where were Chambers' "secret documents" and what were they known as? Were they important? |
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| In a pumpkin in a field near his farm, called the "Pumpkin Papers", not important |
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| What was Hiss eventually convicted for? |
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| What did people begin to believe with Alger Hiss' conviction? |
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| That communists had infiltrated the government |
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| Election of 1948: candidates, parties, who won it, what was its significance? |
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| Thomas Dewey (Rep), Truman (Dem), Henry Wallace (3rd party), Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrats) Truman won, it was a major upset because everyone believed Dewey would win |
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| What paper put out early results saying that Dewey beat Truman? |
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| What was Dewey's platform in the 1948 election? |
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| Basically nothing, meant to not offend anyone, said agriculture is important/our rivers are full of fish/can't have freedom without liberty/the future lies ahead |
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| Who were the Dixiecrats and what was their official name? |
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| A division within the Democratic Party that left due to Truman’s civil rights policies, oficially called the States Rights Democratic Party |
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| What is the Dixiecrats main platform? |
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