History 1302 ch.27
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
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
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was
George Marshall
As a result of the Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe
Proved to be meaningless
The 1946 congressional elections resulted in
Republican control of congress
The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was
Richard Nixon
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
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was
Thomas Dewey
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
At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to
adopt a strong civil rights plank
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
President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act
because he felt it promoted thought control
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
can veto any major proposal
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his
decisive character
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
Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to
gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation
In retrospect, the cold war was probably
inevitable
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:
moderate liberalism
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to
order the development of a hydrogen bomb
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in
peacetime alliances
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
The Hiss-Chambers case
resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage
State Department official George Kennan
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded
that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it
Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?
the Congress of Industrial Organizations
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in
the State Department
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors
n 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
Inch'on was the site
where General MacArthur turned the war around with an amphibious landing
