A) They were intended to most appeal to Dixiecrats and earn Truman their help and support on both foreign and domestic issues.
B) They passed more quickly than most legislation, as most of the programs concerned urgent national security measures against the Soviet Union.
C) Most of them were intended to wipe out the New Deal and completely eliminated policies such as the minimum wage, Social Security, and other forms of federal aid.
D) They virtually ignored the plight of African Americans and inadvertently helped establish Truman's lasting reputation as a communist sympathizer.
E) Most of them were simply extensions or enlargements of New Deal programs, and a bipartisan conservative coalition in Congress successfully stopped their passage.
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A) Jewish organizers for American support for Israel after the Second World War
B) spies for Communist China who left the country before being convicted
C) part of the Hollywood Ten called to testify about their relationship to communism
D) American citizens convicted for spying and passing atomic bomb secrets to the USSR
E) esteemed scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb
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A) Truman virtually ignored foreign affairs in Asia because, even once both the United States and the Soviet Union both had atomic weapons, the Soviet Union continued to pose the greatest threat and consume all of his attention.
B) Korea was left under the control of Japan as a gesture of consolation during the postwar negotiations in the wake of the dropping of the atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
C) Korea was placed under joint American and British occupation early on after the war in a decision that successfully prevented Soviet involvement in Asia and helped establish a close relationship between Korean officials and the United States.
D) Korea and Japan quickly emerged as regional powers, as Asia had experienced little destruction due to the war and remained the most stable region of the world compared to Europe and the United States.
E) Korea became divided into northern and southern halves, with the Soviets organizing a Communist government in the north and the Americans then helping to establish a democratic government in the south.
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A) It was an American commitment to using atomic bombs as a first line of defense.
B) It promised that the United States would only intervene in the Western Hemisphere if necessary.
C) It committed the United States to help "free peoples" facing pressure from communism.
D) It was a policy at odds with the "domino theory" and, thus, proved widely unpopular at the time.
E) It made it clear that the United States would not get involved in the affairs of Europe or Asia again.
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A) Mexican Americans tended to avoid racial discrimination entirely, especially due to the number of them who had fought during the war and demanded equality at home.
B) Mexican Americans tended to have the most advanced degrees of any minority group at the time, and unlike African Americans, they remained unaffected by poll taxes to vote.
C) In a number of southwestern states, schools segregated Mexican American children from white children, and Mexican American veterans often were denied benefits available to white veterans.
D) The U.S. military refused to accept Mexican Americans into its ranks during the war, which fueled widespread postwar stereotypes that they lacked patriotism.
E) The United States contained so few Mexican Americans that they were rarely subject to ethnic prejudice and enjoyed equality with white Americans in postwar social programs.
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A) East Asia.
B) the Middle East.
C) Latin America.
D) Western Europe.
E) Eastern Europe.
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A) the weakness of organized labor
B) declining birthrates that lowered consumer demand
C) high rates of inflation
D) the return of high unemployment
E) food shortages
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A) Truman and his aggressive policies
B) American economic imperialism
C) the efforts of the Soviets, led by Josef Stalin, to dominate the globe
D) mistakes and overreactions by both the United States and the Soviet Union
E) the collapse of British and French power at the end of the Second World War
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A) socialism.
B) bipartisanship.
C) the status quo.
D) social welfare programs.
E) staunch conservatism.
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A) Individuals who had dropped an atomic bomb were punished for war crimes.
B) Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to national prominence.
C) The Communist party in the United States and its leadership grew in strength.
D) Alger Hiss was convicted of lying about espionage.
E) Whittaker Chambers served a lengthy prison term.
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A) He was able to build bipartisan support on an unprecedented level.
B) He used his stunning upset victory in 1948 and public opinion to strong-arm Congress.
C) He was able to do it without a congressional declaration, bypassing a constitutional provision.
D) He opposed intervention but got involved because public opinion demanded it.
E) He supported the war even though it was completely contrary to the Truman Doctrine.
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A) for incompetence
B) because of party politics
C) for insubordination
D) for reasons that are still unknown
E) because of switching sides
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A) declare martial law.
B) temporarily seize those industries.
C) assert that the government had no role in labor-management disputes.
D) break the strikes through the intervention of unemployed veterans.
E) freeze transportation and energy prices.
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A) provoke an immediate war with the Americans and the British that would escalate into the third world war.
B) help them gain the rich natural resources of the Mediterranean countries and, thus, limit the claim European countries had.
C) be merely a game to test the strength of their diplomatic strategies and would not actually pose a threat to the United States.
D) allow for the fall of the other nations in eastern Mediterranean, followed by those in Western Europe, if unchecked.
E) free those countries from dictatorships and, thus, would ultimately prove beneficial to the United States.
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