History 1302 ch.27

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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

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

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe

Proved to be meaningless

The 1946 congressional elections resulted in

Republican control of congress

The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was

Richard Nixon

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

The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was

Thomas Dewey

As the 1948 election approached

Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble

The 1948 election is probably best remembered for

Truman's upset victory

UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about

a massive Chinese intervention

At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to

adopt a strong civil rights plank

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes

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

President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act

because he felt it promoted thought control

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

can veto any major proposal

One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his

decisive character

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

Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to

gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean

A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was

high rates of inflation

In retrospect, the cold war was probably

inevitable

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to

launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

moderate liberalism

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to

order the development of a hydrogen bomb

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in

peacetime alliances

One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the

racist nature of the enemies of the United States

The Hiss-Chambers case

resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage

State Department official George Kennan

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to

temporarily seize those industries

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded

that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?

the Congress of Industrial Organizations

In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in

the State Department

When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea

the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors

n 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

Inch'on was the site

where General MacArthur turned the war around with an amphibious landing


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