history 1302 chapter 27

The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:

Republican control of Congress

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded that:

Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to

Threaten to draft the strikers

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.

True

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.

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

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

china

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

each have veto power over major UN decisions

Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War II.

false

J. Strom Thurmond was from New York

false

All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:

had an Ivy League education

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

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

liberalism.

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.

Truman fired MacArthur:

to preserve civilian control of the military.

Israel's creation in 1948 was followed immediately by a war with its Arab neighbors.

true

Inch'mon was the site

where General MacArthur turned the war around with a surprise landing