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Ch. 27-1 Postwar USA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This law was designed to help ease veterans’ return to civilian life. | G.I. Bill of Rights |
| In response to the postwar housing crisis, developers offered standardized, mass-produced homes in small residential communities known as __________. | suburbs |
| This was a suburb of standardized, mass-produced housing built by William Levitt. | Levittown |
| This law prohibited a closed shop, made union officials take a loyalty oath, and gave the President the power to use injunctions to delay strikes. | Taft-Hartley Act |
| He threatened to draft striking workers in the railroad, steel, and coal-mining industries into the army. | Truman |
| This branch of government refused to pass civil rights legislation. | Congress |
| He broke the color barrier in baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. | Jackie Robinson |
| This party was a splinter of the Democratic party who opposed civil rights. | Dixiecrats |
| This southern Democrat ran against Truman in the 1948 election as a Dixiecrat. | Strom Thurmond |
| He was a surprised loser of the 1948 presidential election. | Thomas Dewey |
| This was the name of Truman’s economic program that included proposals for a nationwide system of health insurance and farm aid. | Fair Deal |
| This Republican and WWII general won the 1952 presidential election. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| This Democrat lost to Ike in the 1952 and 1956 elections. | Adlai Stevenson |