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Harry Truman

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Served as a senator from Missouri, personally suffered by contrast to Franklin Roosevelt when he became president, was an artillery officer in WWI, was a partner in a clothing business.

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

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his determined, decisive character.

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The GI Bill of Rights provided

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financial assistance for home loans and college expenses.

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The GI Bill did all of the following:

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Provide educational benefits, provide housing loans, help prevent a postwar depression, provide medical treatment

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State Department official George Kennan said

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the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.

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Marshal Plan

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war damage and dislocation Europe invited Communist influence, Economic aid to all European countries offered in the European recovery program

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

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to launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.

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One major reason that WWII inspired postwar changes in race relation was

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the racist nature of the enemies of the United States.

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Baseball was integrated in 1947 when

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Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Truman won in major upset in

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the 1948 election.

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The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when

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Communists took over China.

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When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea

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the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.

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Whittaker Chambers, former Soviet agent,

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accused Hiss of passing secret documents

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Hiss convicted of

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Perjury

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Senator McCarthy was very effective in

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exploiting public fears.

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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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the most popular new household product of the 1950's was

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the television set.

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Suburban growth was spurred by

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federally insured loans, highway construction, increases in car ownership, and veterans' benefits.

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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 1950's, suburban life was marked by

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an increasing uniformity.

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The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was

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actually rhythm and blues.

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Elvis was especially controversial because of

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his suggestive gyrations on stage.

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In the Brown decision

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The Supreme Court struck down "separate but equal" in public education.

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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he

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divided the world into forces of good and evil.

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The First Indochina War ended when

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the French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

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in 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by

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erecting the Berlin Wall.

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The result of the 1960 election was

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a narrow victory for Kennedy.

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in its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court required

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than an accused person be informed of certain basic rights.

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Greensboro sit-ins based on

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King's "militant nonviolence" philosophy

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Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience

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mass arrests, mob violence, extreme verbal abuse, and growing public admiration.

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In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. declared

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his willingness to break unjust laws.

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was

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thoroughly bungled by the CIA

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the Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to

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nuclear war

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All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination

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the primary suspect was Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby shot and killed the suspected assassin, it occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and many of the related events were watched on television.

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Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson genuinely cared about the

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disadvantaged in society.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed

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segregation in public facilities.

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Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to

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those over age sixty-five.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 dramatically expanded

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black votes in the South.

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malcolm X said blacks should be proud of

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their African heritage.

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The Tonkin Gulf resolution allowed Johnson to

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escalate the war

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One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to

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avoid losing it to communism

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The Tet offensive of early 1968 dramatically affected public support for

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Johnson's war policy

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On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray

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shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr.

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Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" explained the unhappiness of

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so many middle-class women.

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The feminist movement suffered a setback with the failure of

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the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.

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One major impetus behind the rise of the Native American rights movement was

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the terrible levels of poverty that persisted in the Indian population.

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The "silent majority" supported

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politicians like Richard Nixon

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Nixon's policy of "vietnamization" involved gradually reducing the

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number of American troops in Vietnam.

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Shocking events at Kent State University involved

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the killing of four students by the National Guard.

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The Pentagon Papers revealed that the Johnson administration had

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deceived the public in regard to war policy.

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In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon insisted that

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he would pursue "peace with honor"

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Nixon's trip to the Soviet Union resulted in

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some limits on future missile construction.

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The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex had connections to

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The Nixon reelection campaign.

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Nixon's Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had

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ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in.

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Gerald Ford suffered terrible political dame when

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he pardoned Nixon.

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To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War

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The Organization of petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States.

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Jimmy Carter's victory in the 1976 election was aided by

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his electoral strength in the South, his non-Washington background in the aftermath of Watergate, his promise to be an honest president, Ford's less-than-impressive presidential record.

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