History 1302 Chapter 29

Front 1

Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War 2.

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False

Front 2

The servicemen's Readjustment Act was also know as the GI Bill of Rights.

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True

Front 3

Within a few months of the end of WW2, there were strikes and other labor disputes in the steel, coal, and railroad industries.

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True

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In the closing days of WW2, Truman threatened to bomb the Soviets if they did not abandon Poland.

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False

Front 5

In the civil war that broke out in Greece after WW2, the United States assisted the British supported gov't.

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True

Front 6

Israel's creation in 1948 was followed immediately by a war with its Arab neighbors.

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True

Front 7

The Fair Deal was President Truman's name for his approach to foreign policy in the early days of the war.

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False

Front 8

At the end of WW2, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel.

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True

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In the early months of the Korean War, UN forces encountered little resistance until they reached the Chinese border.

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False

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Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of supplying U.S. secret documents to the Soviets.

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True

Front 11

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to

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B. Temporarily seize those industries

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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

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B. Allowed the president to impose a "cooling off" period during major strikes

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Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

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E. can veto any major proposal

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The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe

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A. proved to be meaningless

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In 1948, President Truman desegregated

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E. the military

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The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over

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A. China

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At the 1948 Democratic Convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to

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C. adopt a strong civil rights plank

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The second place finisher in the 1948 election was

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Thomas Dewey

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With the end of WW2, Korea

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became divided into northern and southern halves

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UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about

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a massive Chinese Intervention

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Thomas E. Dewey

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was the Republican presidential candidate in 1948

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Alger Hiss

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was convicted in 1950 of lying about espionage

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Hubert Humphrey

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gave civil rights speech at 1948 Democratic convention

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George F. Kennan

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wrote influential article on cold war policy Foreign Affairs

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George C. Marshall

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was the secretary of state in 1947

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Douglas Macarthur

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said, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"

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Joseph R. McCarthy

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was a senator from Wisconsin

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Matthew Ridgeway

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led UN forces in Korea after April 1951

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J. Strom Thurmond

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was the Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948

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Henry A. Wallace

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formed a new Progressive party