What impact did the Cold War have on the presidency?

Question 1

What did the growth of the Cold War change?

Answer 1

The position of the president

Question 2

What did USA’s involvement in NATO ensure for the president?

Answer 2

Truman could go to war/make treaties without Congress’ permission

Question 3

Why did the USA felt committed into going against the USSR?

Answer 3

Size, wealth and their increasing nuclear weapons

Question 4

What was the act in 1947?

Answer 4

1947 National Security Act

Question 5

What did the 1947 Act do?

Answer 5

Reorganised US military forces under a new Defence Department

Question 6

What was the result of reorganising the US military forces?

Answer 6

Armed forces greatly enlarged

Question 7

What could the president do after 1950?

Answer 7

Move the armed forces around without the perms of Congress

Question 8

What created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?

Answer 8

1947 National Security Act

Question 9

What created the National Security Council?

Answer 9

1947 National Security Act

Question 10

What could the CIA and National Security Council do instead now?

Answer 10

Report to the White House, not to Congress

Question 11

What did the existence of nuclear weapons mean?

Answer 11

A war could happen at any moment -
President has to have power to react at once w/o Congress perms

Question 12

What things did Truman do without consulting Congress?

Answer 12

1948 Berlin Airlift, went to war in Korea, placed permanent US bases in other countries