Study Guide Sixteen

United States Domestic Politics, 1944-1960

FINAL EXAM

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the final exam. The material below consists of important material from the lecture. Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

Terms (definition and significance):

Harry Truman

National Security Act of 1947

National Security Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947

Dixiecrats

Strom Thurmond

Henry Wallace

Red Scare

Alger Hiss

Rosenberg Trial

Dwight Eisenhower

John Foster Dulles

rollback

AFL-CIO

McCarthyism

Army-McCarthy Trials

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

Earl Warren

Civil Rights Act of 1957

right to work laws

Questions to Think About:

How did Truman reorganize the US military to fight the Cold War?

What did the Republicans do to lose the support of the American voters in the election of 1948?

What were the causes and consequences of the Red Scare?

Why did Eisenhower win the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956 and what were his policies?

What was the nature of the economic problems of the 1950s?

What was McCarthyism and how did it influence the US government and society?

How and why did Civil Rights become an important issue in the second half of the 1950s?