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23 Cards in this Set
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What was Truman's first action after becoming president?
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Creating the United States
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What program gave economic aid to Europe?
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The Marshall Plan
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What was the Soviet port in the Black Sea
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Yalta
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What gut off the East from the West?
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Iron curtain
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Who proposed the policy of containment?
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George Keynon
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What did the Berlin Blockade lead to?
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The Berlin Airlift
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What apposed NATO?
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The Warsaw Pact
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Who was expected too win the 1952 election?
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Dewey
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What is a rise in prices?
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Inflation
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Domestic reforms by Truman
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Fair Deal
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What outlawed "closed shop"?
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Taft-Hartley Bill
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Ending of separation of races
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Desegregation
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After the war ended the industries began making what?
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Consumer goods
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What did Truman threaten to do to strikers?
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Draft them into the army if they didn't return to work.
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What was the republican slogan?
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"Had enough?"
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Who won the 1948 election?
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Truman
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Truman improved the civil rights of___.
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African Americans
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Where did Tran live before living in the White House?
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Independence, Missouri
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Who once controlled North Korea?South?
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Soviet Union; United States
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Who once attacked UN forces?
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China
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What was the original goal of the UN forces?
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Push North Koreans back over the 38th parellel
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Capital of South Korea?
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Seoul
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What was the new goal of UN forces after North Koreans were pushed back?
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Unite Korea into a Democratic nation
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