When President Truman took a hard line against striking workers in the years immediately following World War II, he:
"had little understanding of the plight of laborers in the post-war years."
During the first months of his administration, he became involved in a struggle between coal miners and railroad workers. It took several meetings, and fierce arguments, to get them to agree, and end the strike.
This is a multiple choice question, so try including the possible answers as well.
1. 22 million
2. 3 million
3. northeners
4. free southeners
5. 9 million
The United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war in 1962 over Soviet missile bases in Cuba. This was referred to as the "Cuban Missile Crisis". The US was mostly concerned about the very close proximity of the missiles to its shores.
