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1. Americans feared that the end of World War II would bring mainly
b) a return to the Depression
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2. The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by
d) outlawing the �closed� (all-union) shops
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3. On the home front in 1946, the post-war United States was characterized by
c) an epidemic of labor strikes
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4. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was passed to check the growing power of
c) labor unions
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5. The growth of organized labor in the post-World War II era was slowed by all of the following except
d) the reduced number of women in the work force
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6. In an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the Truman administration did all of the following except
e) continue wartime wage and price controls
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7. The post-World War II prosperity in the U.S. was most beneficial to
c) women
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8. The feminist revolt of the 1960s was sparked by
d) a clash between the demands of the traditional role of women as wives and mothers and the realities of employment
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9. The long economic boom from World War II to the 1970s was fueled primarily by
a) low energy costs
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10. Much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on
e) colossal military budgets
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11. One sign of the stress that the immediate growth of post-World War II geographic mobility placed an American families was the
b) popularity of advice books on child-rearing
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12. Post-World War II American workers made spectacular gains in productivity owing to
e) their rising educational levels
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13. Since 1945, the population in the United States has grown most in the
c) Sunbelt
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14. Much of the Sunbelt�s new prosperity was based on its
a) tremendous influx of money from the federal government
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15. All of the following encouraged many Americans to move to the suburbs except
a) development of fuel-efficient automobiles
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16. The rapid rise of suburbia in post-WWII America can be attributed to
e) all of the above
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17. By 1960, the proportion of Americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately
b) one out of four
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18. The continued growth of the suburbs led to
c) an increase in urban poverty
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19. Population distribution after World War II followed a pattern of
e) an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and white in major cities
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20. The refusal of FHA administrators to grant home loans to blacks resulted in
b) driving many blacks into public housing
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21. The huge �baby boom� crested in the ________________ and has been declining ever since.
c) late 1950s
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22. The baby-boom generation will create a major problem in the future by
b) placing an enormous strain on the Social Security system
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23. Harry Truman possessed all of the following personal characteristics except
a) willingness to admit mistakes
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24. The U.S. believed that it was desirable to have the Soviet Union participate in the projected invasion of Japan because
c) Soviet help could reduce the number of American casualties
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25. The origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in
e) Eastern Europe
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26. Joseph Stalin�s postwar security concerns focused primarily on
d) Eastern Europe
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27. The responsibility for starting the Cold War rests with the
e) United States and Soviet Union
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28. The earliest and most serious failure of the United Nations involved its inability to
c) control atomic energy, especially in the manufacture of weapons
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29. In regard to postwar Germany, the Big Three allies agreed that
b) high-ranking Nazis should be tried and punished for war crimes
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30. When the Soviet Union the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by
d) organizing a gigantic airlift of supplies to Berlin
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31. Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of
c) containment
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32. The postwar policies adopted by the Truman administration toward the Soviet Union were based on the assumption that the Soviet Union was inherently
e) expansionist
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33. The immediate concern that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to events in
b) Greece and Turkey
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34. The immediate concern that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to events in
d) Czechoslovakia
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35. Under the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. pledged to
d) support those who were resisting subjugation by communists
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37. Truman�s defenders argue that he exaggerated the Soviet threat because he
b) received bad intelligence from the CIA
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38. President Truman�s Marshall Plan called for
a) military aid for Europe
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39. The Marshall Plan finally passed Congress largely because it was perceived there as
e) economically beneficial to the United States
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40. All of the following objected to President Truman�s support for the establishment of Israel except
c) America�s European allies
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41. American membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did all of the following for the country except
b) help reintegrate Germany into the European family
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42. The U.S.� participation in NATO
e) all of the above
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43. Postwar Japan
a) was, like Germany, divided into Allied occupation zones
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44. The United States, under the North Atlantic Treaty pact,
a) assumed a moral commitment to aid any signatory assaulted by the Soviet Union
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45. Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Ze-dong mainly because
e) the communists were closer to traditional Chinese culture
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46. In an effort to detect communists within the government, President Harry Truman established the
c) Smith Act
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47. In 1948, many southern Democrats split from the party because
c) President Truman took a strong stand in favor of civil rights
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49. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Berlin airlift, (B) Korean War, (C) fall of China
e) C, B, A
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50.Arrange the following in chronological order of their appearance: (A) Marshall Plan, (B) Truman Doctrine, (C) NATO
e)A, B, C
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