HIS 122 Chapter 27 Study Guide

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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


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