1 .		The 1947 Taft-Hartley Act was the culmination of congressional disgust with the antics of Senator Joseph McCarthy. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		In the late 1940s and the 1950s, government tax policies encouraged home ownership and large families. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		President Truman's containment policy was based on the assumption that Soviet aggression was inevitable. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		The 1947 Marshall Plan authorized the organization of NATO, a mutual-defense pact of Western nations. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		After the communist victory in China in 1949, President Truman was strongly criticized by conservative Republicans for not giving the nationalist government there stronger support. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		Officially, the Korean War was a police action of the United Nations against North Korean aggression. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		In the 1952 presidential election, Dwight Eisenhower and the Republicans effectively used the Democrats' failure to enact national health insurance legislation to win the election. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		The 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" Supreme Court decision declared that segregated public schools were inherently unequal. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		A hoped-for plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons in the early postwar years was foiled when the United States refused to accept the United Nations' Baruch plan. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		The result of congressional endorsement of the Truman Doctrine in 1947 was the establishment of a right-wing, military-dominated government in Greece. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		President Truman sent U.S. troops to Korea in 1950 because American strategists had previously identified South Korea as America's first line of defense against communism in Asia. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		Egypt's President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal when President Eisenhower decided not to finance Egypt's Aswan Dam. [Hint]  True  False