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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Truman asked for $___ million assistance for Greece and Turkey	400	100%
What was the headline of the Chicago Tribune that was a famous wrong prediction?	Dewey Defeats Truman	100%
The US banned communists from government posts in _____	Japan	100%
African Americans made up around __ % of the population of the USA	10	50%
The Korean war cost __% of the US GDP	14	50%
__ million tones of supplies flown in during the 324 day Berlin airlift	1.5	50%
The Marshall Plan gave $__ billion to european countries to rebuild	17	50%
Inflation rate in 1945\46 was __%	25	50%
The number of US military deaths in WW2	400,000	50%
By 1945, the USA had __ % of the worlds income	42	50%
By 1950, how much had unemployment risen by?	5%	50%
Of the 12 million soldiers returning, how many were initially demobalised?	9 million	50%
When was the first successful nuclear test in the soviet union?	August 1949	50%
Sales of ____ increased from 2.1 million to 7.9 million in 9 years as a result of the baby boom	Cars	50%
Country whose fall to Communism inspired congress to pass the Marshall Plan	Czechoslovakia	50%
Instead of supporting Vietnamese independance, Truman supported the ______ empire	French	50%
Scheme set up by Roosevelt that aimed to help returning soldiers but didn't apply to African Americans	GI bill	50%
This act of 1952 made it easier to migrate from Asia to the USA	Immigration and Nationality Act	50%
The Morgan v Virginia ruled that segregation on what?	Interstate buses	50%
British economist whose economic policy inspired much of the democrat economic policies	John Maynard Keynes	50%
George Kennan's letter to US secretary of state James Byrnes that inspired the Truman Doctrine was the ____ ________	Long Telegram	50%
What were the 2 main civil rights groups in Truman's presidancy?	NAACP/CORE	50%
18 of the 32 presidents prior to Truman had come from the _____ _______ states	North Eastern	50%
The top secret security policy document that suggested an increase in defence spending in order to carry out the policy of containment	NSC-68	50%
Who was elected as leader of South Korea?	Syngman Rhee	50%
What was the name of the report released by the presidents commitee on civil rights which was a scathing attack on all forms discriminaton?	To secure these rights	50%
Date that the Berlin blockade was installed	25th March 1948	0%
What campaign did explicitly linked victory over the Nazis to Racism at home?	Double V	0%
The house Un-American Activities Committee was formed to monitor what?	Extremist groups	0%
The Smith v Allwright case ruled African Americans in Texas to vote in what?	Primaries	0%