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what was the Taft-Hartley act
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It outlawed the "closed" shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves and required leaders to take a noncommunist oath.
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and the point of Operation Dixie was to save the Southerners from a killer flood?
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no, even if that was true we would have let those suckers die anyway. So, it was a failed attempt to over come fears of racial mixing in 1948
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Service Mens Readjustment act of 1944
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AKA the GI bill. It kept those punks out of civilian jobs by throwing them hells AKA schools and maintaining them in the army
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Dr. Benjamin Spocks symoblized the effects of American Mobility in his book....
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The common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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FHA (federal housing adminstration)
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it gave out home loans but discriminated against minorities whom they said would have more difficulties paying back debts
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What occured at Yalta in 1945
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the Big Three met and they agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have their boundaries readjusted, they would have a representative govt. Stalin lied!!! bastard!
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what encouraged world trade by regulating currency exchange rates and founded the world bank
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IMF international monetary fund
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what could have ended the nuclear crisis
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Bernard Baruch's suggestion of a UN w/o the Veto power, and a UN w/power over atomic energy. But Russia really liked its veto and we liked Nuclear energy power so that yea...that was screwed over...bastards
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what was the 1948 doctrine that helped the Greeks fight those Turks..again
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The Truman Doctrine
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who was in charge of reconstruction in Japan
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MacArthur YEA!
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Dennis v. courts
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help up the convictions of commies who advoated a violent overthrow of the govt.
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who is Jian Jieshi
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he was forced to flee since Mao defeated him in 1949. The fall of China was blamed on Truman
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Truman ran in 1948 and called a fair deal did he win
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yes. 1st square deal then, new deal then fair deal
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the soviets helped to set up rivalry regimes below/above what parallel in Korea
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the 38th parallel. Truman attacked the N. korean army
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NSC-69
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quadruple defense spending
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