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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 The 1947 Taft-Hartley Act was the culmination of congressional disgust with the antics of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 The demand for labor in the US remained strong after the war, despite the huge numbers of returning veterans.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 President Truman's containment policy was based on the assumption that Soviet aggression was inevitable.
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 The 1947 Marshall Plan authorized the organization of NATO, a mutual-defense pact of Western nations.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 Officially, the Korean War was a police action of the United Nations against North Korean aggression.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision declared that segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 Bernard Baruch authored a plan to assist the growing nationalist movements in Africa.
   
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 The result of congressional endorsement of the Truman Doctrine in 1947 was the establishment of a right-wing, military-dominated government in Greece.
   
 
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