HIS 122 (U.S. History II) Unit 11/Chapter 27 Study Guide
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over
China.
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in
Eastern Europe.
Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War II.
False
J. Strom Thurmond was from New York.
False
The Fair Deal was President Truman's name for his approach to foreign policy in the early days of the cold war.
False
As a result of the Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism.
All of the following were original North Atlantic Treaty Organization members EXCEPT
Japan.
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded that
Stalin and the Soviets were behind it.
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was
Thomas Dewey.
In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.
True
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.
True
Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of supplying secret U.S. documents to the Soviets.
True
Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.
True
As the 1948 election approached
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble.
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for
Truman's upset victory.
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about
a massive Chinese intervention.
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT
abolishing Social Security.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes.
With the end of World War II, Korea
became divided into northern and southern halves.
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state.
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his
determined, decisive character.
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to
expand the New Deal.
Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to
gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean.
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he
had an Ivy League education.
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation.
During the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT
influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.
Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for
liberalism.
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to
order the development of a hydrogen bomb.
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe
proved to be meaningless.
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States.
At the 1948 Democratic Convention
segregationist delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walked out of the convention in protest.
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT
the Office of Homeland Security.
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
In 1948, President Truman desegregated
the military.
When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to
threaten to draft the strikers.
Truman fired MacArthur
to preserve civilian control of the military.
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress.
Inchon was the site
where General MacArthur turned the war around with a surprise attack
