Truman Domestic Policy

Question 1

When was Truman sworn in as President?

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

When was Truman’s 21 point plan?

Answer 2

September 1945

Question 3

When was the Employment Act (inc. responsibility for economic stability on the federal government)?

Answer 3

February 1946

Question 4

When do the Republicans win control of Congress?

Answer 4

November 1946

Question 5

When does Truman request legislation to secure the civil rights of nations minorities?

Answer 5

1948

Question 6

When was Executive Order 9981 (desegregates Armed Forces)?

Answer 6

1948

Question 7

When is Truman reelected? And when do the Democrats retake the Senate and HoR?

Answer 7

November 1948

Question 8

When does Truman propose the Fair Deal?

Answer 8

January 1949

Question 9

When was NATO signed?

Answer 9

1949

Question 10

When is the Housing Act signed?

Answer 10

1949

Question 11

When do Congress raise minimum wage?

Answer 11

1949

Question 12

When is the Red Scare?

Answer 12

February 1950

Question 13

How many people does McCarthy accuse of being communists?

Answer 13

205

Question 14

When is the Social Security Amendments signed?

Answer 14

1950

Question 15

When are the Rosenbergs sentenced to death?

Answer 15

1951

Question 16

When did Truman block the steel strikes? (deemed unconstitutional in 6-3 vote in SC)

Answer 16

1952

Question 17

What percentage of the world population was the US in 1945 and what percentage of the world income did it have?

Answer 17

7% and 42%

Question 18

How many US citizens had died in WW2?

Answer 18

400,000

Question 19

What was Roosevelt’s approval rating when he died?

Answer 19

70%

Question 20

In Roosevelt’s 12 years of office, the US economy (GDP) rose by how much % annually?

Answer 20

8.5%

Question 21

What was the McCarran-Walter Act and when was it?

Answer 21

1952 - it made immigration easier

Question 22

How much did US loan the UK?

Answer 22

$31 billion

Question 23

How did Truman demobilise the army?

Answer 23

9 million in 1945 and reduced to 1.5 million in 1946

Question 24

What was the highest unemployment was under Truman?

Answer 24

5%

Question 25

What did the influx of men returning home have an impact on?

Answer 25

Led to a consumer boom and 25% rise in inflation

Question 26

What were some measures of the Fair Deal?

Answer 26

• inc minimum wage (40 to 75 cents)
• federal aid to education
• anti lynching laws

Question 27

What was Truman’s approval rate at the end of his presidency?

Answer 27

22%

Question 28

Why was there a fear of communism?

Answer 28

• economic fear, communism amongst rich
• military fear
• psychological need to have an enemy

Question 29

How many members did the US Communist Party have?

Answer 29

80,000

Question 30

What black newspapers became popular under Truman?

Answer 30

Chicago Defender

Question 31

By the time Eisenhower came to power, how many members did the NAACP have?

Answer 31

Over a million

Question 32

When was there a race riot in Detroit, how many were involved?

Answer 32

1943 and 100,000

Question 33

I’m the 1940s and 1950s how many black people left the south?

Answer 33

1.4 million and 1.1 million

Question 34

What groups were active in the north?

Answer 34

NAACP, CORE, the Urban League and the Nation of Islam

Question 35

When was Morgan v. Virginia (segregation on interstate buses was illegal)

Answer 35

1946

Question 36

When did Truman give a radical civil rights speech to Congress asking for measures against lynching, protection of the right to vote and better funded FEPC?

Answer 36

1948