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A) Members of the national press corps who covered the story of Strom Thurmond's breakaway from the Democratic Party.
B) Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."
C) Southern labor organizers who campaigned against passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.
D) Republicans who favored maintaining segregation in the South in support of the principle of states' rights.
F) A) and C)
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A) the Fair Deal included a provision to expand public housing.
B) Congress passed Truman's Fair Deal to raise the standard of living for Americans.
C) the Fair Deal included a provision to increase the minimum wage.
D) the Fair Deal included a provision to create a national health insurance program.
E) the Fair Deal included a provision to expand Social Security coverage.
G) All of the above
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A) Returning veterans had been given preferential treatment in hiring and promotion.
B) The millions of women who had worked in defense industries were refusing to leave their jobs.
C) The postwar wave of deflation was dramatically reducing the value of worker's wages.
D) The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers' real income.
E) American workers had accumulated months of vacation and overtime during the war years.
G) C) and E)
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A) accused Alger Hiss of being a spy
B) Korean War commander
C) 1948 Progressive Party candidate
D) critic of the Cold War
E) prosecuted by HUAC
F) "Who Is Loyal to America?"
G) author of containment doctrine
H) black baseball star
I) Fair Deal
J) senator from Wisconsin
K) chaired committee on human rights
L) convicted of spying
N) B) and G)
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A) the Cold War reshaped immigration policy.
B) the Cold War promoted the rapid expansion of higher education.
C) Cold War policy supported scientific research in medicine and computers.
D) the Cold War contributed to the dismantling of segregation.
E) Cold War military spending weakened the economy.
G) A) and D)
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A) especially evident in the movies.
B) limited in scope.
C) discouraged in the public schools.
D) widely criticized by the news media.
E) felt mostly in the cities.
G) B) and C)
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B) False
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A) was immediately ratified by Congress.
B) was honored by both the United States and the Soviets.
C) included freedom of speech and religion.
D) was drafted by President Truman.
E) did not address economic rights.
G) A) and B)
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A) It caused millions of Americans to be jealous and get curious about the Soviet Union.
B) It inspired American politicians to invoke the example of the Soviet Union in order to push for bolder reincarnations of the New Deal.
C) In the climate of anti communist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism.
D) It gave Americans comfort to know that their own emphasis on social and economic rights placed them far ahead of the Soviet Union.
E) It secured voting rights for women along with a quota system for political leadership positions.
G) B) and D)
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A) The communist nation had suffered more than 20 million casualties, along with immense devastation.
B) Stalin was eager to demonstrate to eastern Europeans the pacifist credentials of his communist regime.
C) The Soviet Union had made enormous territorial gains during the war and had every interest in securing them first.
D) Stalin was shocked and appalled by the American use of the nuclear bomb in Japan and vowed to his people never to sink to that level.
E) The Soviet politburo had replaced the warmongering Josef Stalin with the decidedly pacifist Nikola Khrushchev.
G) A) and E)
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B) False
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A) advocated a return to isolationism.
B) was an alliance between the United States and Great Britain.
C) called for more cordial relations with the Soviet Union.
D) committed the United States to fighting communism only in Asia.
E) committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.
G) B) and E)
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A) attempted to unionize the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy
O) A) and E)
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A) attempted to unionize the South
B) deported illegal aliens
C) Greece and Turkey
D) Dixiecrats
E) outlined containment policy
F) "slave labor" bill
G) recommended increased spending on defense
H) first peacetime alliance for the United States
I) Truman's domestic program
J) economic aid to Europe
K) Harry Truman
L) set quotas on immigrants
M) downfall of McCarthy
O) E) and G)
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