Studied by 1 personTruman
________ was more successful in expanding Social Security and, through executive orders, desegregating the military and banning racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees.
McCarthyism
________ flourished in the short term because the threat of a world dominated by Communist governments seemed all too real to many Americans.
Trumans Fair Deal
________ was proposed to expand the New Deal despite intense Republican opposition in Congress.
South Korea
When North Korean troops invaded ________ in June 1950, Truman quickly decided to go to war under the auspices of the United Nations.
Soviet Union
At the end of the Second World War, the ________ established "friendly "governments in the Eastern European countries it occupied behind an iron curtain of totalitarian control and secrecy Containment.
Cold War
The ________ was an ideological contest between the Western democracies (especially the United States) and the Communist countries.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
With the ________, he proposed giving economic and military aid to countries facing Communist insurgencies, such as Greece and Turkey
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
In 1949, the United States became a founding member of the ________, a military alliance of Western democracies united primarily against the Soviet Union.
Dixiecrats
Despite the Democrats’ majority in Congress, however, conservative Republicans and southern Democrats (________) joined forces to defeat these initiatives.
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Investigations by the ________ sought to find “subversives” within the federal government.
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