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| Americans feared that the end of WWII would bring |
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| another depression, then war with USSR |
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| The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by |
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| outlawing the "closed" shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath |
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| The passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) was partly motivated by |
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| fear that the employment markets would never be able to absorb 15 million vets at a war's end. made generous provisions to send vets to war |
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| The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was passed to check the growing power of |
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| The growth of organized labor in the post-WWII ear was slowed by all of the following |
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| the separation of service sectors, fears of racial mixing |
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| In an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the Truman administration did all of the following |
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passed the GI Bill
spent money making munitions |
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| The post-WWII prosperity in the US was most beneficial to |
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a majority of citizens (60%)
the middle class, women |
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| One striking consequence of the postwar economic boom was |
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| the jobs created for women |
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| the long economic boom from WWII to the 1970s |
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| WWII, colossal military budgets, cheap energy, changes in nation's basic economic structure, Korean War |
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| much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on the underpinnings of |
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| colossal military budgets |
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| one sign of the stress that the widespread post-WWII geographic mobility placed on American families was the |
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| popularity of advice books on child-rearing |
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| The dramatically reduced number of American farms and farmers in the postwar era was accompanied by |
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| unmatched productivity gains |
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| Since 1945, population in the US has grown most rapidly in the |
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| Much of the Sunbelt's new prosperity was based on its |
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| waterfall of federal donors |
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| All of the following encouraged many Americans to move to the suburbs |
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| the FHA and VA made it more fiscally attractive, highways |
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| Which of the following did not contribute to the rapid rise of suburbia in post-WWII America? |
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| segregation, businesses leaving cities to go to suburbs |
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| By 1960, the proportion of Americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately |
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| The continued growth of the suburbs led to |
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| the baby boom, automobile construction, drive-in-locations (movies, restaurants) |
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| Population distribution after WWII followed a pattern of |
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| The refusal of the FHA to grant home loans to blacks contributed to |
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| a solidified racial separation |
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| The huge post-war baby boom reached its peak in the |
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| Before he was elected VP of the US in 1944, Harry S Truman had served as all of the following |
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| farmer, artillery officer in France in WWI, haberdasher, judge, US Senator |
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| Harry Truman possessed all of the following personal characteristics |
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| trim, bespectacled, graying hair, friendly grin |
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| In early 1945, the US was eager to have the USSR participate in the projected invasion of Japan because |
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| they would reduce the number of US casualties with their causalties |
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| The origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the US and the Soviet union over postwar arrangements in |
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| politics, war tactics which brought on postwar suspicion, USSR wanted to protect itself |
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| The US and the Soviet Union resembled on another in that they |
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| both had been very isolated prior to WWII, also had a kind of missionary diplomacy |
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| Unlike the failed League of Nations, the new United Nations |
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| succeeded. formed an assembly, and no member of the Security Council could have taken action w/o its consent |
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| The earliest and most serious failure of the UN involved its inability |
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| to agree on the atomic bomb situation |
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| The victorious WWII Allies quickly agreed that |
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| they needed to remove Nazism and punish Nazi leaders |
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| When the Soviet Union denied the US, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by |
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| Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of |
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| America's postwar containment policy was based on the assumption that the Soviet Union was fundamentally |
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| The immediate crisis that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to the threat of a communist takeover in |
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| Greece and Turkey in 1947 |
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| Under the Truman Doctrine, the US pledged to |
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| support free peoples who are resisting takeover |
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| lend money to underdeveloped places to help themselves |
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| look out for each other as if looking out for themself |
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| help endangered countries stay free |
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| joint plan for economic recovery |
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| President Truman risked American access to Middle Eastern oil supplies when he |
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| officially recognized the state of Israel on its day of birth |
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| American membership in the NATO did all of the following for the country |
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| kept Russians out, Germans down and Americans in |
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| The US' participation in NATO |
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| was a huge departure from American diplomatic convention and isolationism |
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| adopted a MacArthur dictated constitutino |
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| Which of the following was true of the new Japanese government installed by General Douglas MacArthur in 1946? |
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| renounced militarism, provided for women's equality, introduced deomcracy |
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| Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mas Ze-dong mainty because |
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| of the ineptitude and corruption within Jiang's regime |
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| In an effort to detect communists within the federal government, President Harry Truman established the |
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| In 1948, many southern Democrats split from their party to support Governor J. Strom Thurmond because |
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| the didn't like Truman supporting black civil rights. |
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Match each 1948 presidential candidate with his political party:
J. Strom Thurmond
Henry Wallace
Harry S Truman
Thomas E Dewey |
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Dixiecrat
progressive
deomcrat
republican |
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| President Truman's domestic legislative plan was dubbed the |
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| President Truman's action upon hearing of the invasion of South Korea illustrated his commitment to a foreign policy of |
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| quadrupling the defense spending |
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| The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief |
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| of almost limitless possibility that pervaded postwar American society |
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