chapter 27

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Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:

Brooklyn Dodgers.

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall.

The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:

Thomas Dewey.

In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.

True

Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.

True

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.

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.

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 viewed his victory as a mandate for:

liberalism.

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.

At the 1948 Democratic Convention:

segregationist delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walked out of the convention in protest.

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:

the Office of Homeland Security.

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 a surprise landing.


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