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All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he

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had an Ivy League education

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

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decisive character

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On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to

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enlarge the New Deal

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The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT

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pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military

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

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high rates of inflation

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

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temporarily seize those industries

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

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The Department of Homeland Security

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The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe

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proved to be meaningless

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All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT

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Japan

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

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George Marshall

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

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launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin

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In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States

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became the first country to recognize the Jewish state

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

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racist nature of the enemies of the United States

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In 1948, President Truman desegregated

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The military

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The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over

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China

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During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT

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abolishing social security

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In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT

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influence Truman to slow down on Civil Rights

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The 1948 election is probably best remembered for

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Truman's upset victory

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The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was

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Thomas Dewey

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By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals

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were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress

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

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order the development of a hydrogen bomb

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With the end of World War II, Korea

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became divided into northern and southern halves

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When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded

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that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

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UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about

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a massive Chinese intervention

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Truman fired MacArthur

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for insubordination

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In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from

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the federal government

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

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Richard Nixon

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Senator McCarthy was very effective in

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exploiting public fears

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President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act

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because he felt it promoted thought control

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

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peacetime alliances

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The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by

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cold war-related military spending

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During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks

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widened

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In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT

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The Price Is Right

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A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to

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Prevent the return of the Depression

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Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

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It's huge cost did not justify it's benefits

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While college enrollments soared in the postwar period

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black veterans encountered barriers to entrance

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The Baby Boom

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started in 1946

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Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under

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$6,900

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Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT

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New construction of mass public transportation

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Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in

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the rural south

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Blacks who moved to northern cities found

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New problems and forms of exploitation

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By the mid-1950s, most workers

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were white collar

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Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from

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excessive conformity

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Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was

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a white suburban housewife

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With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to

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give up their jobs to returning veterans

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Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that

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"books and babies don't mix"

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One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to

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The pledge of the Allegiance

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In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the

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persistence of poverty

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In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as

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"Homogeneous, postwar Hell"

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The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was

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Ralph Ellison

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Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as

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abstract expressionism

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The youthful rebels known as the Beats

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favored road trips, buddhism, and jazz

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Alan Freed was a notable

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disc jockey

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The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually

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rhythm and blues

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Elvis Presley's recordings

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blended a variety of musical styles

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In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower

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retained most and even expanded some of them

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In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower

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refused to halt their executions

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Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved

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averting war through the threat of nuclear force

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Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by

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France

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Adlai E. Stevenson was

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Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956

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