Chapter 27 - The Cold War and the Fair Deal (1945-1952)

Truman

Truman

________ 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.