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Return to American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context 3e Student Resources
True or False Chapter 25 Self Quiz 1
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Harry Truman received the news of the first successful explosion of a nuclear bomb in New Mexico in the middle of negotiations with the Allies in Potsdam, Germany.
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George F. Kennan formulated the original idea of Cold War containment in an 8,000-word telegram from Moscow to Washington, DC in 1946.
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South and North Korea had lived in peace and prosperity prior to North Korea's attack in June 1950.
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A massive Chinese army forced U.S. troops to retreat from North Korea in the winter of 1950â1951.
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In 1945, President Harry S. Truman faced the first Republican majority in Congress since the Hoover administration.
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As southern politicians vied for federal programs within the military industrial complex, they began to dismantle their archaic Jim Crow laws.
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Truman's decision to make civil rights part of his agenda benefited him enormously in national politics.
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Even in the South, African American soldiers were greeted as heroes on their return from fighting Nazi Germany.
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Even in the South, African American soldiers were greeted as heroes on their return from fighting Nazi Germany.
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Even though news reports of Europeans starving and freezing to death abounded in the winters after World War II, Americans had little interest in supporting massive aid programs for the people of the old continent.
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