How did the United States redefine national security after 1945? ...

[Mr.Thesaxman]

Question 1

Between 1947 and 1961, the national income increased by __________ percent.
 
  A) 20
  B) 40
  C) 60
  D) 80

Question 2

Discuss the impact of the Red Scare on American politics and civil liberties.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What was NSC-68 and how did it help produce the American national security state?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

How did the United States redefine national security after 1945?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[nyrave]

Answer 1

Answer: C

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In a pattern that became known as McCarthyism, mostly Republican conservatives blamed liberal Democrats in the administration for communist successes abroad.
  


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  Despite his general support for civil liberties, Truman helped set the tone for pursuing suspected traitors.
  


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  Truman established a federal employee loyalty program in March 1947.
  


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  Attorney General Tom Clark drew up a list of supposedly subversive organizations.
  


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  The federal courts ruled that words alone could be treasonable.
  


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  The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated Hollywood, the television industry, and universities as well as the executive branch of the U.S. government.
  


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  Senator Joseph McCarthy led the Republican effort to discredit Democrats as unpatriotic.
  

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In 1949, China became a communist country and the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons.
  


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  In light of these developments, President Truman asked for a complete reevaluation of U.S. foreign policy.
  


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  The result was the top-secret National Security Council document 68 (NSC-68).
  


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  NSC-68 argued that the United States had entered an era of permanent crisis because of the expansion of communism and the hostile intentions of the Soviet Union.
  


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  Americas worldwide interests meant that it must oppose revolutions or radical change anywhere on the globe.
  


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  This armed struggle necessitated secrecy and centralization of power in the hands of the federal government.
  


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  The National Security Act of 1947 and its 1949 amendments created the institutions of the new national security state.
  

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  At the end of World War II, U.S. policymakers were determined to revive the global capitalist economy.
  


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  American prosperity and freedom, they believed, depended on a world system of free trade.
  


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  From this perspective, American national security was seen to be at stake almost everywhere around the globe.
  


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  The primary threat to that security came from the Soviet Union.
  


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  The danger lay in Soviet encouragement of revolutions that rejected market economies and individualist ethics.
  

[Mr.Thesaxman]

Thank you!

[nyrave]

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