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Harper's Weekly 1881 series on Newton Creek - CORRECT ANSWER * Publishes series of writings that exposed the health and safety conditions surrounding Newtown Creek from oil refineries' pollution * Caught major attention from public and the NY State Board of Health to take steps to fix situation * Symbolized significance and power of media that allowed public to see the fearful situation * Saw the negative impact that big businesses had on residential neighborhoods Munn & Scott Scandal ...

Notes compiled from several resources compiled during my A Levels- helped my to gain an A* Includes: The United States in 1945 and the legacies of the world war: the powers of the presidency; the main political parties; post-war prosperity; regional, ethnic and social divisions The USA as a Superpower: Truman’s character and policies; post-war peace making; the Cold War and ‘containment’ in Europe and Asia; the response to the rise of Communism in Asia Truman and post-war reconstructio...

Harper's Weekly 1881 series on Newton Creek - CORRECT ANSWER * Publishes series of writings that exposed the health and safety conditions surrounding Newtown Creek from oil refineries' pollution * Caught major attention from public and the NY State Board of Health to take steps to fix situation * Symbolized significance and power of media that allowed public to see the fearful situation * Saw the negative impact that big businesses had on residential neighborhoods Munn & Scott Scan...

Red Scare Questions and Answers Already Passed When did the Red Scare occur? During cold war How long did the Red Scare last? Ten years The Cincinnati Reds baseball team changed there name to what? Red Legs What was McCarthy first name? Joseph What is McCarthyism? Campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy Who was the head FBI director during the Red Scare? J. Edgar Whats Hollywood blacklist? Denying employment ...

Postwar America Unit Test Q&A Latest 2024 Despite agreeing to remove Soviet troops from Eastern Europe and hold elections, Stalin kept them there. What did this signal? - the beginning of the Cold War What was the Iron Curtain? - the imaginary wall separating communist countries from democracies American diplomat George F. Kennan urged the U.S. government to adopt a policy "firmly opposing Soviet expansion and keeping communism in check." What was this policy called? - containment ...

Postwar America Practice test Question and Answers Accurately Solved Harry Truman - became president when FDR died and made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan Douglas MacArthur - becomes in charge of rebuilding Japan with Emperor Hirohito and named the Defacto Emperor George F. Kennan - an advocate of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War George Marshall - Leading planner of strategy for the Allies in WWII and served as secretary of sta...

APUSH AMSCO 26 Questions and Answers Rated A+ Which one of the following best reflected the policies advocated in the above excerpt? The Truman Doctrine of aid to Greece and Turkey In what way did the Marshall Plan best implement the goals of George Kennan? It used U.S. aids to block the appeal of Communism in western Europe To implement the policies based on this excerpt, the US for the first time had to Create permanent peacetime alliances with other nations Levittown is most closely associ...

The compromise of 1820 averted sectional conflict by: a. removing federal troops from the south b. preserving the balance of power between free and slave states c. implementing a more stringent fugitive slave las ing tariff rates e. eliminating the constitutional ban on the importation of the slaves. - Answer-B. preserving the balance of power between free and slave states The compromise of 1820, also known as the missouri compromise, admitted Maine as a free slave and Missouri as a sla...

This document is a summary of all topics discussed in history HL topics. This document talks about the red scare, McCarthyism, the cuban missle crisis, the effects of Castro, the korean war, delente, the marshall plan, the cold war, and US foreign policy from 1945 to 1950. There are summaries and bullet points and key figures involved. The essay is very informative and helpful for people reviewing before a test. This document is good for memorizing background information for paper 1 (source pape...