What was the real target of the second Red Scare? A) Liberal ...

[scienceeasy]

Question 1

How did African Americans challenge racial discrimination in the years immediately following World War II?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What role did civil rights for African Americans play in the election of 1948?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What was the real target of the second Red Scare?
 
  A) Liberal Democrats
  B) African Americans
  C) Socialists
  D) Fascists

[emily12345]

Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Once the war was over, African Americans were laid off from factory jobs in favor of returning white veterans.
  


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  Blacks were expected by others to retreat into deference.
  


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  Black veterans spearheaded the resistance to such expectations.
  


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  African American efforts to overcome discrimination met fierce, often violent, white opposition in 1946 and 1947.
  


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  The retreat of European colonialism and American competition with the Soviet Union nonetheless encouraged many white Americans to acknowledge racial discrimination.
  


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  A series of Supreme Court decisions chipped away at segregation and discrimination.
  


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  Popular culture moved in the same direction of breaking down racial barriers.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Truman campaigned for reelection in 1948 on a platform of support for civil rights that was unprecedented in the White House.
  


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  In the summer of 1948 he ordered the desegregation of the armed forces and the federal civil service.
  


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  Alienated by the civil rights plank, white Southerners walked out of the Democratic convention and ran South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond as an independent candidate.
  


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  African American voters in Chicago, Cleveland, and other northern cities played a key role in swing states.
  


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  African American votes proved the difference in the election.
  

Answer 3

Answer: A

[scienceeasy]

Great answer, keep it coming

[peter]

Excellent