Eisenhower and Truman

Question 1

How long was Truman’s whistle-stop tour?

Answer 1

30,000 miles

Question 2

Why did people like Truman?

Answer 2

-Brought the family out (personal)
-Appealed to farmers as he was one
-Positive stance on Civil rights

Question 3

What was Truman nicknamed?

Answer 3

Common mans man

Question 4

How many new NAACP members were there after the war?

Answer 4

Before the war, 50,000-500,000 members

Question 5

What happened in the Journey of Reconciliation?

Answer 5

-16 Black CORE students stayed on the bus as long as possible to see how far they could get
-Didn’t get far, and they were met with violence
-Challenged bus segregation laws

Question 6

When did Truman desegregate the military, and what executive order is it?

Answer 6

-1948
-9981

Question 7

What did Truman describe discrimination as?

Answer 7

‘Disease’ in a Speech, 1946

Question 8

What did Truman ask congress?

Answer 8

Pass laws:
-Lynching
-Stop voter suppression
-Equal employment
Congress blocked most of these.

Question 9

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 10

-Contain communism
-Offer economic aid
-Gave $300 million in aid to Greece and Turkey

Question 11

When was the Marshall Aid?

Answer 11

1948

Question 12

What was the Marshall Aid?

Answer 12

-Economic aid program launched to help rebuild Western Europe after WW2
-US gave $13billion to 16 countries
-USSR blocked it, calling it Dollar Imperialism

Question 13

When was Nato established?

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

When were the Bombs dropped?

Answer 14

6th August Hiroshima
9th August Nagasaki

Question 15

When did the Korean War start?

Answer 15

25th June 1950

Question 16

Explain the narrative of the Korean War?

Answer 16

-Korea is divided along the 38th parallel
-The USA sent troops led by General Douglas MacArthur to land in Inchon.
-MacArthur pushed the North Koreans back over the 38th parallel
-China invaded the South and drove UN forces back. MacArthur requested an atomic bomb, but Truman denied it.
-1952 Ike visits Korea and uses Brinkmanship
-1953 armistice signed

Question 18

When was the Berlin blockade?

Answer 18

1948

Question 19

What were the events of the Berlin Blockade?

Answer 19

-Germany was split into 4 zones at Potsdam
-The USSR wanted to see Germany act as a further buffer zone between them and capitalist states.
-Trizonia made in 1949
Stalin closed all roads, rail, and power supplies.

Airlift
-US drops 2.3 million tons of supplies
-Planes land at Templehoff every minute
-Lasted 11 months

Question 20

What was the Fair Deal?

Answer 20

Policy agenda
-Expand social security
-Increase the minimum wage
-Abolition of poll taxes
-Anti lynching laws

Question 21

How many people moved from East to West Germany due to better jobs?

Answer 21

2.7 million

Question 22

How many people were on McCarthy’s list?

Answer 22

205

Question 23

How did Eisenhower win?

Answer 23

-War hero
-Hates communism
-Adlai was a democrat. Voters wanted a change after 20 years of Democratic rule
-I like Ike advertising 90% of USA had TV

Question 24

How many votes did Ike get from electoral colleges?

Answer 24

442

Question 25

How many houses were built in the suburbs?

Answer 25

11/13 million

Question 26

Who were the brothers who made houses and how many did they make?

Answer 26

Levitt brothers 17,000 homes

Question 27

When was the interstate highway built?

Answer 27

1956

Question 28

What is Dynamic conservatism?

Answer 28

Conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to the people.

Question 29

What did dynamic conservatism do?

Answer 29

-Raise the minimum wage -Increased social security benefits -Federal aid to education

Question 30

How much did the interstate cost?

Answer 30

$26 billion

Question 31

When were the Montgomery bus boycotts?

Answer 31

1955

Question 32

What happened during the Montgomery bus boycotts?

Answer 32

-Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man -The NAACP organised a bus boycott. 50,000 people joined it, leading to desegregated buses, but just the Montgomery buses

Question 33

When was little rock 9?

Answer 33

1957

Question 34

Events of Little Rock 9?

Answer 34

-9 students refused entry into Little Rock Central High -Faubus ordered the National Guard to keep them out -Ike sent 101 Airborne after 3 weeks

Question 35

When did the students of little rock have their full day?

Answer 35

Sep 25th 1957

Question 36

When was Ikes first civil rights bill and what did it do?

Answer 36

-1957 - Protected voters rights

Question 37

When was the second civil rights bill and what did it do?

Answer 37

-1960 -added 3%

Question 38

When was the greensboro sit ins and how many students took part?

Answer 38

-1960 -70,000 -desegregated woolworths

Question 39

What happened during the U2 spy plane?

Answer 39

-1960 -Gary Powers shot down over the USSR -Ike lies and says it's a weather forecast machine -Khruschev stormed out of Geneva conference because he doesn't get an apology

Question 40

What happened at the 1954 Geneva conference?

Answer 40

-Ike proposed an Open Skies plan that allows aerial surveillance of others to build trust. -USSR rejected it

Question 41

What happened between Vietnam and France?

Answer 41

-Ho Chi Minh led the fight for independence against the French, given $ 2 billion by the USA -1954 Dien Bien Phu battle French begged for an airstrike Ike refused. -The war ended with the Geneva Accords and was divided along the 17th parallel

Question 42

When was the Hungarian uprising?

Answer 42

-1956

Question 43

What were the events of the Hungarian uprising?

Answer 43

-Protests began, people wanted change from Rakosi's harsh rule -Violent protests happen, so change the leader to Imre Nagy -He had reforms, such as he wanted to leave the Warsaw Pact, which alarmed the soviet union -USSR sent tanks into crush revolution -Thousands were killed around 200,000 fled the country -Nagy killed -West didn't do anything

Question 44

What was the Taft Hartley Act?

Answer 44

restricted power of work unions

Question 45

how much did USA spend on japan?

Answer 45

$2billion