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Chapter 31: The Fair Deal and Containment
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Harry Truman:
a. replaced much of Roosevelt’s cabinet soon after becoming president.
b. was seen at first simply as a “caretaker” president.
c. had been involved in the clothing business, among other things, before
entering politics.
d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.
2. The domestic program that Harry Truman sent to Congress in September 1945:
a. was a setback for labor.
b. proposed to continue and enlarge the New Deal.
c. addressed only the problem of demobilization.
d. proposed to reverse most of his predecessor’s policies.
5. When railroad workers staged a strike shortly after the end of the war, President
Truman:
a. threatened to nationalize the railroads.
b. threatened to draft strikers into the armed forces.
c. suggested a pay raise of two cents an hour.
d. argued that the federal government could not interfere in what was
fundamentally a private business matter.
6. Price controls:
a. managed to keep prices high through the 1940s.
b. managed to keep prices low through the 1940s.
c. were established in 1946 to deal with the economic problems associated with
demobilization.
d. were phased out shortly after the war ended.
8. The Taft-Hartley Act:
a. was passed with Truman’s support.
b. set up the Council of Economic Advisors.
c. ended discrimination on the basis of race in hiring for defense-related jobs.
d. was generally a setback for labor.
10. The National Security Act created:
a. a local military council.
b. a national homeland security council.
c. private oversight of the military.
d. a new National Security Council.
11. Which of the following was not a permanent member of the Security Council of the
United Nations?
a. Britain
b. France
c. Japan
d. the Soviet Union
13. State Department official George Kennan:
a. predicted that the wartime alliance between the United States and Soviets
would continue.
b. said the United States should abandon Europe and focus on the defense of
the Western Hemisphere.
c. said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.
d. urged the use of military force to liberate Eastern Europe.
15. In its first application of the Truman Doctrine, Congress approved economic aid to:
a. Czechoslovakia.
b. Turkey and Yugoslavia.
c. Albania.
d. Greece and Turkey.
16. The Marshall Plan:
a. was an effort “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted
subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
b. set up the so-called Committee of National Liberation.
c. was “directed not against country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty,
desperation, and chaos.”
d. prevented a Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia.
17. East Germany was controlled after World War II by:
a. the United States, France, and Great Britain.
b. the United States, France, and Italy.
c. the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain.
d. the Soviet Union.
18. In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, Truman:
a. used armed convoys to supply the city.
b. used a massive airlift to supply the city.
c. conceded Berlin to the Soviets to save West Germany.
d. conceded Berlin to the Soviets to save East Germany.
20. When Jewish leaders proclaimed the independent state of Israel in 1948, the United
States:
a. refused to recognize the new state until democratic elections had been held.
b. broke diplomatic relations with most of the Arab states.
c. recognized the new state immediately.
d. offered military and financial aid to the Arab states.
21. America’s racial relations were transformed during the 1940s because:
a. of civil rights demonstrations.
b. or racial riots.
c. racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees was banned.
d. the Ku Klux Klan was banned.
22. Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:
a. New York Yankees.
b. Boston Red Sox.
c. Chicago Cubs.
d. Brooklyn Dodgers.
24. In the election of 1948:
a. conservative Republicans left their party and named Strom Thurmond the
candidate of the new States’ Rights Republican party.
b. “Dixiecrats” carried all of the former Confederate states.
c. Republicans finished third in the presidential race.
d. Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress in addition to winning
the White House.
25. Truman referred to the Taft Hartley Act as a:
a. “great piece of legislation for America’s workers.”
b. “setback for businessmen.”
c. “brilliant use of government power.”
d. “slave-labor act.”
26. The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:
a. China.
b. Korea.
c. Taiwan.
d. Vietnam.
27. When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:
a. South Korean forces were able to defeat the invaders.
b. the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
c. Truman got Congress to declare war on North Korea.
d. Stalin told the North Koreans to stop their aggression.
28. The National Security Council in 1950 recommended:
a. giving military aid to the French-supported regime of Bao Dai in Vietnam.
b. responding to the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia.
c. rebuilding America’s conventional military forces.
d. addressing the problem of Communists in South Korea.
29. The leader of the nationalists in China, as the communists attempted to take power,
was:
a. Mao Tse-tung.
b. Ho Chi Minh.
c. He Sho Choi.
d. Chaing Kai-shek.
30. The United States entered the Korean War:
a. against the wishes of President Truman.
b. without a declaration of war by Congress.
c. without sanction by the United Nations.
d. because of its interest in the oil deposits off the southern tip of the Korean
peninsula.
31. Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur:
a. because of popular demand.
b. because MacArthur did not want to fight an all-out war in Korea and China.
c. after a Senate investigative committee found that MacArthur had held secret
negotiations with Chinese officials.
d. because MacArthur openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight
Red China.
33. The Marshall Plan drew the nations of western Europe:
a. farther apart.
b. to talk with one voice.
c. closer to communism.
d. closer together.
35. Joseph McCarthy:
a. accused George C. Marshall of disloyalty.
b. was Truman’s vice president.
c. pronounced Richard Nixon’s charge of communism in the state department
“a fraud and a hoax.”
d. was the first director of the Atomic Energy Commission.
37. By the end of the Truman years, the United States had:
a. returned to its isolationist stance.
b. repudiated almost all its peacetime alliances.
c. become committed to a major and permanent national military
establishment.
d. repudiated the Monroe Doctrine.