History 27 quiz

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During the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.

State Department official George Kennan:

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.

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.

By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:

were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress.

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

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.

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall.

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

During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

abolishing Social Security.

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

liberalism.


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