Questions: Chapter 27

1. The cold war was a period of disagreement and military build up between Russia and the US. It was caused by disagreemetn because they were communists and we were capitalists.

2. Tey are the same thing. It was a policy that the US adopted to contain Soviet communist expansionism. Focused on the need for National Security.

3. Truman set up a program to determine whether people in his administration were loyal to capitalism. It was implemented as part of Truman's containment plan.

4. Creation of the CIA, Air-force, and department of defense. The Marshall Plan fostered economic recovery in Europe, and fought communism. NATO was the US/Britain and CO. pact. Berlin Blockade failed.

5. Republican nomination: Dewey, Dem nomination: Truman, Progressive: Wallace, Dixicrats: Thurmond. It was unusual because it looked like like the democrats were doomed, but Truman pulled out an unlikely victory.

6. The fact that China, the most populus country and Russia, the largest country had both become communist, scared Americans. NSC-68 was aimed at bolstering public fear and developed a freedom v. slavery philosophy.

7. The Korean war was a war against Kim's communist government in Korea, because the communist country of North Korea was attacking a capitalist country, americans focused on anticommunism.

8. because americans were afraid of communist power, they limited the power of labor unions, limited the way they could boycott and made them swear they were not communist, HUAC went after communists in Hollywood because they were influencial.

9. He was the leader of the FBI during the policy of containemtn, he had broad power to uncover subversion, he could write his own list and detain any subversives in a national security emergency. '

10. Epitimized by the conviction and murder of the ROsenbergs. Used as scapegoats to explain how soviets made a nuclear weapon so quickly. McCarthyism was when McCarthy accuse people of being communist.

11. He expanded social security, civil rights, created a national healthcare system, reapealed the Taft-Hartlye Act, and subsidized farming more heavily, compromised programs like healthcare because congress was republican controlled.

12. The main victory for civil rights during Truman's administration was the desegregation of the army, navy, and marines. The desegregation of baseball also was a civil rights success although Jackie Robinson had to endure many racial insults.

13. The development of suburbs brough a feeling of affluence to American Society. The weere seen as "a people of plenty" Families were encouraged to do things together. Mothers were blamed for the increase in youth crime rate.