chapter 27
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:
Brooklyn Dodgers.
As a result of the Truman Doctrine:
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism.
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:
Thomas Dewey.
As the 1948 election approached:
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble.
With the end of World War II, Korea:
became divided into northern and southern halves.
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
each have veto power over major UN decisions.
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
expand the New Deal.
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's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.
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.
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
In early 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:
the state Department
When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
threaten to draft the strikers.
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
Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of supplying secret U.S. documents to the Soviets.
true
Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.
true
