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HIST 2322 - QUIZ 1 Correct answers latest update
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HIST 2322 - QUIZ 1Executive Order 8802 ANS✔✔ in June 1941, Pres. Roosevelt issued this order
which banned discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all
unions/companies engaged in war-related work
Containment ANS✔✔ strategic foreign policy used by the United States (and
created by Kennan) in the late 1940s to "contain" the USSR and prevent
Russian expansion through Europe
Truman Doctrine ANS✔✔ in March 1947, Pres. Truman established with the
Truman Doctrine that the United States would provide political, military and
economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or
internal authoritarian forces
Marshall Plan ANS✔✔ in April 1948, Pres. Truman signed the bill, which
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the
economic infrastructure of postwar Europe
NSC-68 ANS✔✔ a secret memorandum written by the U.S. government in
1950 which argued that Soviet aggression was one of the most pressing threats
confronting the United States and concluded that the Soviet threat would soon
be augmented by the addition of nuclear weapons, so the US should build up
their own arsenal
George Kennan/Long Telegram ANS✔✔ in 1946, he sent an 8000 word
telegram to the U.S. State Department containing policy recommendations and
analyzing the aggressive policy of Stalin; this is where containment originated
, Fair Deal ANS✔✔ the Fair Deal was a reform program established by Pres.
Truman beginning in 1945 which called for expanded social security, new
wages-and-hours and public-housing legislation, and a permanent Fair
Employment Practices Act
1946 Strike Wave ANS✔✔ a series of massive postwar labor strikes after
World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous
industries
Wagner Act/Taft Hartley Act ANS✔✔ passed in 1935, it proposed to create a
new independent agency—the National Labor Relations Board, made up of
three members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate-to
enforce employee rights rather than to mediate disputes, and gave workers the
right to form unions
Midterm Election of 1946 ANS✔✔ 1946 United States elections were
elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to
serve in the 80th United States Congress, and resulted in Republicans picking
up 55 seats to win majority control; they also won the Senate
Election of 1948 ANS✔✔ United States presidential election of 1948 was
between Democratic incumbent President Harry S. Truman and Republican
Thomas E. Dewey; most people assumed that the Republican candidate would
win the election
Dixiecrats ANS✔✔ members of a right-wing Democratic group in the 1948
U.S. presidential election organized by Southerners who objected to the civil
rights program of the Democratic Party
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