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When did the Korean War Take Place? |
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| Who did Truman fire in 1951 |
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| Who is convicted of treason in 1951? |
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| When was the first US hydrogen bomb tested? |
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| When did the US Economy begin a positive growth? |
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| When did the Red Hunt Begin? |
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| Who started the Red Hunt? |
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| When was the Berlin Crisis? |
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| When was NATO established? |
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| When did the Communists defeat Nationalists in China? |
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| Who wins the election in 1948? |
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| When did the United States officially recognize Israel? |
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| When was the Truman Doctrine approved? |
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| When was the Marshall Plan approved? |
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| When was the Taft-Hartley Act approved? |
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| What did the National Security Act create in 1947? |
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| The Department of Defense, National Security Council (NSC), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| When were the Tokyo War Crimes Trials held? |
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| When was the Iran Crisis? |
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| What does the Employment Act create in 1946? |
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| The Council of Economic Advisers |
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| When were the Nuremburg war crimes trials in Germany? |
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| What does Spock publish in 1945? |
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| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care |
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| When is the Yalta Conference? |
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| When does the US end the Lend-Lease to the USSR? |
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| When was the United Nations established? |
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| When was the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill) enacted? |
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| When was the Bretton Woods economic conference? |
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| What were many homeward-bound GIs afraid of? |
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| They were afraid of the possibility of being unemployed again and be unable to support their families. |
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| What did the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 do? |
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It...
- outlawed the "closed" (all-union) shop
- made unions liable for damages that resulted in jurisdictional disputes among themselves
- required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath
As a whole, it slowed the growth of ogranized labor. |
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| What and when was the CIO's "Operation Dixie?" |
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| It was aimed at Southern textile workers and steelworkers to make them join a Union. It failed in 1948 to overcome the fears of racial mixing. |
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| What did the Democratic administration do in order to forestall an economic downturn in the period of 1945-1952? |
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| One of the most prominent things they did was sell its war factories and other government installations to private businesses at low prices. |
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| What did the Employment Act of 1946 do? |
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It made it gov't policy "to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power"
It also created a 3 member Council of Economic Advisers. |
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| What did the Council of Economic Advisers do? |
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| They provided the president with the data and the reccomendations to make the Employment Act a reality. |
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| What did the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (a.k.a. = GI Bill of Rights or the GI Bill) do? |
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- It made provisions for many of the former soldiers to go to school and further their education. (8 Million veterans took advantage of the GI Bill and costed around $14.5 Billion in tax-payers dollars)
- It also enabled the Veterans Administration (VA) to guarantee $16 Billion in loans for the veterans to buy homes, farms, and small businesses
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| How long did the US stay in an economic growth after WWII? |
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| The US stayed in an economic boom/growth for 20 years after WWII which lasted from 1950-1970. |
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| How long does the Cold War actually last? |
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| The Cold War lasts from 1945-1991 |
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Of all the beneficiaries of postwar prosperity, none reaped greater rewards than...
- Men
- Women
- Blacks
- Immigrants
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| Women did! After all, they were given plenty of jobs after the war was over. |
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| What propelled the unprecedented economic explosion after the war? |
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| The main thing that boosted our economy was the Second World War because we used the war to fire up our factories to make war items for other nations. |
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| Dr. Benjamin Spock published this book in 1945. |
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| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care |
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During this postwar economic growth, where did most Americans move to...
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Suburbs
The Federal Housing Administration made it more appealing to buy a home in suburbia then to rent out an apartment in the city. (Mortgage, Tax Deductions on payments) |
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| Why did the construction industry boom in the 1950s and the 1960s? |
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| The construction industry boomed during this time in order to meet the demand of people who wanted to move into a suburban area. |
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Which group of people were segregated from going into a suburban area?
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Migrating blacks from the south filled up the urban neighborhoods that were abandoned by the departing white middle class.
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The baby boom was the decade and a half after 1945. By the end of the 1950s nearly 50 million babies were born.
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| What happened to the fertility rates in 1973? |
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| In 1973 the fertility rates that dropped below the point necessary to maintain existing population figures. |
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| What happened to American elementary school enrollments in the year of 1970? |
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| During the 1970s the baby boomer generation was growing to a point where they had to enroll in elementary school. |
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| What happened as the baby boomers grew up? |
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| Not only did the baby boomers take jobs as they grew older but they also expanded the economy by causing different age range areas to grow beyond expectations. |
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| What was the some of the most important parts of the February conference in 1945 at Yalta? |
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1. Stalin agreed that Poland should have their representative government based on free elections ( a pledge soon broke)
2. Bulgaria and Romania were likewise to have free elections ( a promise also flouted)
3. The Big Three also announced the creation of the United Nations
4. Stalin agreed to attack Japan within three months after the collapse of Germany, the Soviets were promised that southern half of Sakhalin Island lost by Russia to Japan in 1905 as well as Japan’s Kurile Islands
5. Soviet Union was also granted joint control over their railroads of China’s Manchuria and of the two sea ports of Dairen and Port Arthur |
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| The big three were Stalin (Soviet Union), Roosevelt (US) and Churchill (United Kingdom or Britain) |
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| When did the U.S. government officially recognize the Bolshevik revolutionary government in Moscow? |
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| Until it was sixteen years old in 1933 |
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| What did the United States terminate in the year of 1945 to the Soviets? |
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| The U.S. terminated the lend-lease aid to the USSR |
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| What did the Cold War do? |
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| The Cold War shaped Soviet American relations, it overshadowed the entire post war international order in every corner of the globe and it also molded societies and economies and the lives of individual people over the planet. |
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| What was established at the meeting of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944? |
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| The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) |
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| What was the purpose of the International Monetary Fund? |
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| The purpose of the International Monetary Fund was to encourage world trade by regulating currency exchange rates. |
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| What was the purpose of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development? |
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| The purpose of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was to promote economic growth in war-ravaged and underdeveloped areas. |
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| When was the first United Nations Conference opened? |
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| What was the United Nations a successor to and what was its purpose? |
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| The United Nations was a successor to the old League of Nations and it was designed to prevent another great-power war. |
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| Who were a part of the Big Five powers? |
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| The United States, Britain, the USSR, France, and China. |
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| When did the Senate approve of the U.N. charter? |
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| What was started in the year of 1946? |
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| The Cold War started in the year 1946 and lasted for 45 years because the Americans and the Soviets didn’t trust each other with the use of nuclear warheads. |
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| What happened during the Nuremberg War Crimes trial from 1945 to 1946? |
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| The Allies tried 22 top-culprits at Nuremberg Germany. |
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| What happened to Austria and Germany after wars end? |
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| Austria and Germany were divided into four military occupation zones, each one assigned to one of the Big Four powers |
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| Who were a part of the Big Four powers? |
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| France, Britain, America, and the USSR |
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| What eventually happened to Germany after the war? |
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| Germany was indefinitely split into a western half and into an eastern half |
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| What did the Soviets do in May of 1949? |
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| The Soviets allowed rail and highway access back to Berlin. |
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| In 1948 what did the Soviets to Berlin that angered the Americans? |
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| The Soviets blocked off all rail and highway access to Berlin and the Americans organized a gigantic airlift in order to send goods to Berlin. |
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| What was one of the threats that became apparent in France and Italy and Germany? |
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| They were in grave danger of being taken over from the inside by communist parties that would exploit their hardships. |
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| Why did the president go before Congress on March 12, 1947? |
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| He requested the Truman Doctrine which asked for 400 million to bolster Greece and Turkey which Congress quickly granted |
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| In order to combat the communists and France, Italy and Germany what did President Truman propose? |
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| On June 05, 1947 George C. Marshall invited the Europeans to get together and work out a joint plan for their economic recovery. The joint plan was President Truman’s idea. It was later called the Marshall plan. |
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| What were the Americans worried about with the Marshall plan? |
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| The Americans were worried that the Russians would hug the Marshall plan to death so instead they made it harder for the USSR to accept. |
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| What did president Truman do despite Arab threats to cut off oil? |
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| President Truman officially recognized the state of Israel on May 14, 1948 |
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| In 1948 what did the United States join? |
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| They joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO which their main goal was to provide the reintegration of Germany into the European family. On attack on one was an attack on all. |
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| Who took over control of the democratization of Japan. |
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| General Douglas MacArthur took control of the democratization of Japan and the Japanese people cooperated to an astonishing degree as they saw the good behavior and the adaption of democracy would speed the end of the occupation. |
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| In 1946 what did Japan adopt? |
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| Japan adopted a MacArthur-dictated constitution as it renounced militarism and introduced western-style democratic government |
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| What happened in the year of 1949 in China? |
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| In 1949 the Nationalist government of Generalissimo Jiang Jieshi was forced to flee the country to the island of Taiwan when the communists led by Mao Zedong swept over the country |
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| Why was the fall of nationalists China depressing? |
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| It was depressing because America and its Allies in the Cold War watched as ¼ of the world’s population fell to communism |
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| What did the Soviet Union do in September, 1949 that surprised experts? |
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| The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb |
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| What did Truman order to do after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb? |
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| Truman ordered the creation of the H-Bomb |
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| When was the first H-bomb exploded? |
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| When did the Soviets explode their first H-bomb? |
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| In 1947 president Truman launched what to investigate the possibility of communist spies in the government? |
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| In 1949, 11 communists were sent to prison for violating the… |
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| In 1938 the House of Representatives established what to investigate “subversion?” |
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| They established the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) |
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| In 1948 who lead the Red Hunt for the eventual conviction of Alger Hiss |
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| In 1950 what did Truman veto which would authorize the president to arrest and detain suspicious people during an “international security emergency” |
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| The McCarran internal Security Bill which was passed by Congress when they overrode president Truman’s veto. |
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| In 1951 who were convicted and sentenced to death for stealing American atomic bomb plans and selling them to the Soviet Union? |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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| In 1948 who did the Republicans choose to run for president? |
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| They chose Thomas E. Dewey |
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| In 1948 who did the Democrats choose to run for president? |
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| The democrats chose Truman |
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| In 1948 who won the election? |
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| President Truman won the election even though he did not win the popular vote. |
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| In 1949 what did President Truman outline? |
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| He outlined the Fair Deal |
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| What did the Fair Deal call for? |
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| It called for improved housing, full employment, a higher minimum wage, better farm price supports, new TVA’s, and an extension on Social Security. |
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| What did the Fair Deal actually accomplish? |
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| The Fair Deal accomplished raising the minimum wage, providing for public housing in the Housing Act of 1949 and extending the Social Security Act of 1950 |
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| When Japan collapsed in 1945, what country was divided up into two different sections? |
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| Korea was divided up into two sections-the Soviets controlled the north above the 38th parallel and the United States controlled south of that line |
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| When did the North Korean Army invade South Korea? |
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| What did president Truman and ask to be approved in 1950? |
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| He recommended NSC – 68 which asked for the quadrupling of the United States defense spending |
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| On June 25th 1950, president Truman obtained this from the United Nations Security Council? |
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| It was a unanimous condemnation of North Korea as an aggressor. |
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| On September 15, 1950, who succeeded in pushing the North Koreans past the 38th parallel? |
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| Why did president Truman remove MacArthur from command on April 11, 1951? |
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| General MacArthur’s insubordination and disagreement with the Joint Chiefs of Staff about increasing the size of war. |
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