Chapter 27
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about:
a massive Chinese intervention.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:
allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes.
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.
Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War II.
False
J. Strom Thurmond was from New York.
False
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.
All of the following were original North Atlantic Treaty Organization members EXCEPT:
Japan.
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.
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:
Thomas Dewey.
At the end of World War II, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel.
True
Harry Truman was born and raised in Missouri.
True
In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.
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
As the 1948 election approached:
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble.
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:
each have veto power over major UN decisions.
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
had an Ivy League education.
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
high rates of inflation.
During the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:
influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:
order the development of a hydrogen bomb.
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:
proved to be meaningless.
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States.
In 1948, President Truman desegregated:
the military.
When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
threaten to draft the strikers.
Truman fired MacArthur:
to preserve civilian control of the military.
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress.
