HIS 122 Chapter 27 Study Guide
Truman fired MacArthur:
for insubordination
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:
the Department of Homeland Security
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War II.
False
In the closing days of World War II, Truman threatened to bomb the Soviets if they did not abandon Poland.
False
In the early months of the Korean War, UN forces encountered little resistance until they reached the Chinese border
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
In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:
Inevitable
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:
proved to be meaningless
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:
China
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
high rates of inflation
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:
Eastern Europe
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was
George Marshall
All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT:
Japan
The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
Stalin's quest for world domination
At the end of World War II, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel.
True
Harry Truman was born and raised in Missouri.
True
Israel's creation in 1948 was followed immediately by a war with its Arab neighbors.
True
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.
True
Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in the steel, coal, and railroad industries
True
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
had an Ivy League education
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
State Department official George Kennan:
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:
that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:
the State Department
In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from:
the federal government
In 1948, President Truman desegregated:
the military
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to
enlarge the New Deal
Senator McCarthy was very effective in:
exploiting public fears
