Truman dates

Question 1

36% of the Workforce female

Answer 1

1944

Question 2

unemployment jumps to 4%

Answer 2

1946

Question 3

By this time, only 1/5 of the 100,000 Black men who applied to the educational fund scheme through the GI bill had succeeded

Answer 3

1946

Question 4

Roosevelt dies

Answer 4

April 1945

Question 5

Creation of the United nations (UN)

Answer 5

October 1945

Question 6

Yalta conference

Answer 6

Feb 1945

Question 7

Potsdam conference

Answer 7

July 1945

Question 8

USA testing of the atomic bomb

Answer 8

16th June 1945

Question 9

Harry S Truman appointed President

Answer 9

April 1945

Question 10

End of WW2

Answer 10

2nd September 1945

Question 11

When was Kennan’s long telegram ?

Answer 11

Feb 22nd 1946

Question 12

When was the Truman Doctrine introduced ?

Answer 12

12th march 1947

Question 13

What duration of time did the Marshall plan last for ?

Answer 13

April 1948 - December 1951

Question 14

When did the Marshall plan start ?

Answer 14

3rd April 1948

Question 15

When did the Marshall plan end ?

Answer 15

December 1951

Question 16

When did the Berlin Blockade start ?

Answer 16

24th June 1948

Question 17

When did the Berlin Blockade lifted by Stalin ?

Answer 17

May 1949

Question 18

creation of NATO

Answer 18

April 1949

Question 19

When was the introduction of the policy of NSC-68 ?

Answer 19

April 7th 1950

Question 20

Emperor Hirohito announces the Japanese surrender

Answer 20

14th August 1945

Question 21

During this time, the Japanese economy grew by 7.1% annually.

Answer 21

1945-56

Question 22

The Civil war in China breaks out after talks between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Tse Tung fall apart

Answer 22

1946

Question 23

Jiang Jieshi fleets to Taiwan from china

Answer 23

December 1949

Question 24

When did Vietminh declare Independence from french colonial rule in Indochina

Answer 24

September 1945

Question 25

by This point, America had given France $785 million to help support them in IndoChina

Answer 25

1953

Question 26

French surrender to Vietminh in IndoChina

Answer 26

May 1954

Question 27

When did China turn communist ?

Answer 27

October 1949

Question 28

end of the Korean war ?

Answer 28

1953

Question 29

What election did Truman not stand in due to unpopularity ?

Answer 29

1953 election

Question 30

When was Inchon landings in korea ?

Answer 30

15th September 1950

Question 31

When was Dien Bien Phu

Answer 31

1954

Question 32

When did America establish a democratically elected government in Japan ?

Answer 32

1947

Question 33

Saigon (South Vietnam) falls to communism.

Answer 33

April 1975

Question 34

When was the Fair labour standards amendment act introduced under Truman as part of his Fair deal ?

Answer 34

1949

Question 35

When was the international monetary fund (IMF) created ?

Answer 35

1st July 1944

Question 36

When was the employment act passed under Truman demanding congress to work for full employment ?

Answer 36

1946

Question 37

When was the social security act passed under Truman as part of his fair deal ?

Answer 37

1950

Question 38

When did the production of Levittowns begin ?

Answer 38

1947

Question 39

By which date had the income of Americans rose by 40% per capita ?

Answer 39

1952

Question 40

By which date had war bonds matured thereby injecting $185 million into the economy ?

Answer 40

1948

Question 41

When did Truman boast to congress about the progress to financial mobilization the had made ?

Answer 41

1952

Question 42

What period was known as the ‘strike wave’ involving over 5 million Americans

Answer 42

1945-46

Question 43

When did 750,000 steel workers go on strike ?

Answer 43

1946

Question 44

When did Steelworkers threaten another strike after the 1946 strike ?

Answer 44

1952

Question 45

inflation at 25%

Answer 45

1945

Question 46

‘To secure these rights’ released

Answer 46

1947

Question 47

Truman gives a speech to the NAACP

Answer 47

June 1947

Question 48

Journey of reconciliation begins

Answer 48

9th April 1947

Question 49

EO 9981 (desegregation of federal gov) & EO 9980 (desegregation of army)

Answer 49

26th July 1948

Question 50

McCarthy makes his claims

Answer 50

Feb 1950

Question 51

McCarren internal security act

Answer 51

21st Sept 1950

Question 52

USA aid to France in IndoChina at $450million

Answer 52

1951

Question 53

HUAC formed

Answer 53

1938

Question 54

When was the Hollywood 10

Answer 54

1947

Question 55

Alger Hiss sentenced to 5 years in jail

Answer 55

1950

Question 56

Rosenbergs executed

Answer 56

1953

Question 57

Smith V. Allwright - voting right in primaries

Answer 57

1944

Question 58

LDF created by NAACP

Answer 58

Feb 12th 1940

Question 59

Morgan V. Virginia - segregation on interstate buses illegal

Answer 59

1946

Question 60

Shelley V. Kramer - estate agents could not refuse to show and sell to black clients

Answer 60

1948

Question 61

McLaurin V. Oklahoma state - McLaurin could enter University of Oklahoma

Answer 61

1950

Question 62

Sweatt V. Painter - second education case for law school of heman sweatt

Answer 62

1950

Question 63

Binding of Isaac Woodard

Answer 63

Feb 12th 1946

Question 64

CIA established by Truman

Answer 64

Sep 1947

Question 65

Detroit race riot involving 100,000 people and 34 deaths

Answer 65

1943

Question 66

First comprehensive civil rights bill into congress. (Not passed)

Answer 66

Feb 2nd 1948

Question 67

When was EO - 9808 (Presidential committee on civil rights) introduced ?

Answer 67

December 5th 1946

Question 68

While seeking re-election to the senate, Truman, in a speech, declared his belief of “Brotherhood” for Black and White men.

Answer 68

1940

Question 69

When was “To Secure these rights” Published ?

Answer 69

December 5th 1947