What key contributions did Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy make to the strategy of containment?
What will be an ideal response?
Truman negotiated the partition of Germany at Yalta, established the Truman Doctrine, instituted the Marshall Plan, joined NATO and stationed U.S. troops to Europe, broke the Soviet blockade with the Berlin Airlift, and committed the country to the Korean War. Eisenhower commissioned large quantities of nuclear-armed ICBMs (intercontinental missiles). Kennedy got nuclear missiles removed from Cuba.
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A. depressions. B. bull or bear markets. C. recessions. D. business cycles.
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A. after serious racial rioting broke out in several northern industrial cities. B. to help southern African Americans move to northern cities to take war jobs. C. by President Roosevelt after black protesters threatened a massive march on the capital. D. in response to significant protests led by the Congress of Racial Equality. E. and led by A. Philip Randolph.
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A) millions of dollars of American capital in the Cuban sugar industry. B) establishment of a Cuban fund-raising junta in New York City. C) guerilla tactics used by the Cuban revolutionaries. D) atrocities that accompanied Spain's reconcentration policy.