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HIST1302 Test 3
Chapters 22, 23, 24
Question | Answer |
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Wendell Willkie | One World- racial equality; defeated by FDR pres election 1940; supported peacetime draft and New Deal social leg. |
A. Phillip Randolph | March on Washington; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; black labor leader |
Francisco Franco | Spanish general; facist govt; Spanish Civil War |
Gunnar Myrdal | An American Dilemma- about country's racial past; American Creed- equality, justice, equal opp., freedom; Swedish social scientist |
Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain; Big Three Conference |
Henry Luce | published the American Century, Life & Times magazines |
Joseph Stalin | signed non-aggression pact with Hitler; Big Three Conference |
Norman Rockwell | illustrated Four Freedoms in Saturday Evening Post |
Friedrich Hayek | The Road to Serfdom; Austrian economist |
Harry Truman | replaced VP Henry Wallace; senator from MO; replaced FDR after stroke; atomic bomb; Big Three Conference |
Robert Jackson | Justice; disagreed with Korematsu decision about Japanese internment camps |
Adolf Hitler | wanted to control all of Europe; violated Treaty of Versailles; Nazi |
Alger Hiss | high ranking state official; accused of perjury and sentenced to 5 years; pursued by Nixon |
Walter Lippmann | journalist; critical of Truman's policies; objected to turning foreign policy into "ideological crusade" |
Joe McCarthy | senator of WI; McCarthyism; leveled charges against so-called Communists |
Douglas MacArthur | "supreme commander" in Japan; American General; Inchon, S Korea; criticized Truman and was removed from command |
George Kennan | Long Telegram; laid foundation for policy of containment |
Harry Truman | senator from MO; policy of containment; FREEDOM; Truman Doctrine; CIA |
Jackie Robinson | first black baseball player- Dodgers; Rookie of the Year |
Henry Wallace | Progressive Party pres. nom. 1948; against segregation and for social welfare |
Rosenbergs | charged with passing secret of atomic bomb to Soviet; conspiracy charge--death penalty |
Henry Steele Commager | "Who is Loyal to America"--anticommunism=conformity |
Whittaker Chambers | editor @ Time; testified against Alger Hiss |
Eleanor Roosevelt | led Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Thurgood Marshall | NAACP leader; attorney; challenged Plessy vs. Ferguson |
Jack Kerouac | "On the Road"; The Beats |
William Levitt | Levittown--suburbs; didn't want to sell to blacks |
Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of Vietnemese movement against Frnech rule |
David Reisman | "The Lonely Crowd"--other-directed people; sociologist |
John F. Kennedy | Deomcratic pres. nom. 1960--won; senator from MA |
Earl Warren | Chief Justice; ruled segregation of schools unconstitutional |
John K Galbraith | "The Affluent Society"--aginst materialism & lack of money spent on public goods |
Richard Nixon | Repub. pres. nom. 1960; lost to JFK |
Ray Kroc | McDonalds franchise |
Milton Friedman | economist; "Capitalism and Freedom"; free maket |
Will Herberg | "Protestant-Catholic-Jew"; free enterprise |