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 Question 1 5 out of 5 points The three major growth industries in the decades after World War II were health care, government programs, and _____________. Selected Answer: b. education. Correct Answer: b. education.  Question 2 5 out of 5 points Truman adviser Bernard Baruch proposed a plan for U.S.-led international control of atomic energy that the Soviets rejected. Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: Tru e  Question 3 5 out of 5 points What was the “Munich analogy”? Selected Answer: d. You dare not appease aggressors. Correct Answer: d. You dare not appease aggressors.  Question 4 5 out of 5 points This was the massive American relief package for rebuilding war-torn Europe. Selected Answer: b. The Marshall Plan. Correct Answer: b. The Marshall Plan.  Question 5 5 out of 5 points What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan? Selected Answer: d. To provide financial aid to rebuild Europe’s war-torn economies. Correct Answer: d. To provide financial aid to rebuild Europe’s war-torn economies.  Question 6 5 out of 5 points General Douglass MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea because he Selected Answer: d. publicly opposed Truman’s policy of limited war in Korea. Correct Answer: d. publicly opposed Truman’s policy of limited war in Korea.

 Question 7 5 out of 5 points President Eisenhower proposed to follow a course that politically would “take that straight road down the middle.” By the 1950s, “the middle” meant all EXCEPT Selected Answer: a. rejecting communist ideology while recognizing the value of allowing leftists to advocate their beliefs in a pluralistic, free society Correct Answer: a. rejecting communist ideology while recognizing the value of allowing leftists to advocate their beliefs in a pluralistic, free society  Question 8 5 out of 5 points This was Truman's solution to Stalin's attempt at forcing the western powers out of the Soviet occupied zone in Germany. Selected Answer: d. The Berlin Airlift. Correct Answer: d. The Berlin Airlift.  Question 9 5 out of 5 points This Supreme Court decision effectively overturned the principles advocated in Plessey v. Ferguson. Selected Answer: d. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Correct Answer: d. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.  Question 10 5 out of 5 points The GI Bill offered which of the following? Selected Answer: c. Paid tuition for college or vocational training. Correct Answer: c. Paid tuition for college or vocational training.  Question 11 5 out of 5 points The McCarran Act of 1950 required _____________ to register with the government. Selected Answer: c. Communists Correct Answer: c. Communists  Question 12 5 out of 5 points Which of the following was a landmark civil rights case from 1954 in that it challenged the premise

behind Plessy v. Ferguson ? Selected Answer: b. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Correct Answer: b. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.  Question 13 5 out of 5 points Among the “shocks of 1949” was the Selected Answer: a. fall of China to Mao Zedong’s Communists. Correct Answer: a. fall of China to Mao Zedong’s Communists.  Question 14 5 out of 5 points Senator Joseph McCarthy’s popularity in his crusade against domestic Communists finally began to slide after McCarthy Selected Answer: d. was televised badgering witnesses and mocking Senate procedures during senate hearings. Correct Answer: d. was televised badgering witnesses and mocking Senate procedures during senate hearings.  Question 15 5 out of 5 points _____________ was the surprise winner in the four-way presidential campaign of 1948. Selected Answer: c. Harry S. Truman Correct Answer: c. Harry S. Truman  Question 16 5 out of 5 points In the absence of sufficient U.S. troops to confront the Soviet army in Eastern Europe, what defense strategy was developed by the late 1940s? Selected Answer: a. nuclear deterrence Correct Answer: a. nuclear deterrence  Question 17 5 out of 5 points President Truman became the first president to make civil rights a moral issue to be addressed by the federal government when he did this? Selected Answer: c. Created the President’s Committee for Civil Rights which issued the report To Secure These Rights .

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Correct Answer: c. Created the President’s Committee for Civil Rights which issued the report To Secure These Rights .  Question 18 5 out of 5 points _______________coined the phrase the "_______________" in his speech to the American public in Fulton, MO Selected Answer: c. Winston Churchill; Iron Curtain Correct Answer: c. Winston Churchill; Iron Curtain  Question 19 5 out of 5 points All of the following forces stymied Truman’s efforts to revive the New Deal EXCEPT Selected Answer: c. un-met demands of veterans. Correct Answer: c. un-met demands of veterans.  Question 20 5 out of 5 points Which of the following set the tone for the foreign policy of the United States for much of the second half of the 20 th century? Selected Answer: d. The Truman Doctrine. Correct Answer: d. The Truman Doctrine.

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