The prosperity of the"golden age" of the 1950's helped blind many Americans to the fact that:
C. More than 30 million Americans continued to live in poverty
During the 1950's and 1960's, the American economy saw all of the following developments increase except:
D. Decrease in supply of consumer products
By 1960, the amount of the nation's population that lived in the suburbs was:
A. One third
During the 1950's, television developed many examples of all of the following program types except:
B. Daytime talk shows
Though he made a few films such as Rebel Without a Cause, the 1950's "bad boy" actor whose image became the icon for the era was:
D. James Dean
By the early 1960's, almost half of the poor in the US were:
D. Children
The GI Bill was designed to:
C. Ease the transition from military life to civilian life
After World War II, working-class Americans
D. Began to accumulate discretionary income
Which of the following statements describes an effect of the baby boom in the 1950's?
B. It fueled the economy
In keeping with the new policy of termination, the United States government:
C. Turned over thousands of acres of Native American land to business interests
The economic expansion of the 1950's and early 1960's was caused by all of the following developments except:
D. An increase in the national birth rate
A consumer culture appeared in the 1950's because of all of the following developments except:
C. Fear of a nuclear attack and a desire to "be prepared"
The growth of suburbs resulted from all of the following except:
B. The desire of people to isolate themselves from the sense of community that often developed in the crowded cities
Which of the following did NOT lower McCarthy's popularity?
C. When he was proven to be a Communist
Due to the rise in popularity of religious affiliation, the government added the phrase "_________" to its currency in the 1950's.
In God We Trust
Wrote the Feminine Mystic- a critical look at the role of women in 1950's society
Betty Friedan
Was a program for migrant workers aimed at decreasing illegal immigration into America and increasing US farm production.
Bracero
Led the beat movement.
Jack Kerouac
Michael Harrington made the argument that poverty was worse in the 1950's than in the __________.
Great Depression
The minority group that was subject to the worst conditions of poverty was the ___________.
Native Americans
During American involvement in World War II, African-American leaders tried to end discrimination by:
D. All of the answers below
What was the purpose of the War Production Board?
A. Limit the production of materials not essential to the war effort
For most of the war, major labor unions:
C. Pledged not to strike for higher wages
Compared with women who worked outside the home before 1939, the new working women of World War II were more likely to be:
E. Engaged in heavy industrial work
Because of angry emotions stirred by World War II, Americans treated immigrants to the United States from the enemy country of ___________ very harshly.
E. Japan
The US government interned many Japanese Americans in "relocation camps" because:
C. Many American military leaders unjustly regarded them as a threat to the security of the West Coast
During World War II, the Allies split Europe into two theaters of operation, with:
D. The Americans and the British fighting in the western half and the Soviets fighting in the eastern half
The economic pressures placed on Japan by the United States in response to Japanese aggression in Asia led to:
A. Offensive action by Japan against the US
The American Strategy designed to defeat Japan in the Pacific was to:
D. Concentrate on more important islands
During World War II, changes to American domestic life included:
D. An increase in people's ability to save money
Lifelong pacifist who was the sole vote against the US entering World War II.
Jeanette Rankin
General _________ led the major Allied invasion of France across the English Channel that began on June 6, 1944.
Eisenhower
Effects of the launching of Sputnik included:
D. Calls for more funding for science education in America
The Eisenhower administration's policy in the Middle East included all of the following except:
D. Support for the British and French invasion of the Suez
Success for the 1961 American-aided invasion of Cuba depended on:
C. An anti-Castro uprising in Cuba
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when:
B. Kennedy accepted Khrushchev's offer to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade the island
Because emerging nations were loyal neither to the Soviet Union nor the US, they:
D. Became a new Cold War battleground
The South Union was not present for the Security Council's vote on whether to intervene in South Korea because:
D. They were protesting the removal of their ally from the UN
The Atlantic Charter outlined a vision of the postwar world that would:
B. Set up a post war world in which all countries had the right to self-determination
During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States:
A. Continued to support Chiang Kai Shek with money and weapons even when it became clear that the resources were not being used properly
Truman's policy of "containment" called for the United States to:
B. Support free people who were resisting communist expansion
Above all other reasons, policy makers supported the Marshall Plan because they:
B. Feared that the shaky pro-American governments in western Europe might fall under communist control
The Marshall Plan adopted policies towards communist countries that:
E. Offered assistance to the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, but they refused
In 1948, Stalin initiated the Berlin Blockade in response to:
C. The merging of the American, British, and French zones of Germany to create a new West German Republic
The history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization involved all of the following except:
C. The United States Senate did not ratify the charter until a decade after the organization was formed
The United States refused to support the British, French, and Israelis in the 1956 Suez invasion because:
E. It feared that the Arab nations would become allies of the Soviet Union
The term "massive resistance" was a slogan and policy most closely associated with:
C. Orval Faubus and Southern opposition to the Brown decision
The most significant accomplishment of the Montgomery boycott was that it led to:
A. The elevation of Martin Luther King Jr., to prominence as a civil rights leader
This organization was founded by those involved in the first sit-in protests.
C. SNCC
"Freedom riders" in the early 1960's aimed at:
D. The desegregation of interstate buses
Following the racial violence in Alabama and Mississippi in 1962 and 1963, President Kennedy:
A. Introduced legislation to end segregation in public accommodations
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed after the staging of which protests?
A. March from Selma to Birmingham
"With all deliberate speed" refers to the desegregation of:
D. Schools
The "sit-in" movement of protest in the early 1960's resulted in:
C. The integration of some public eating facilities
The tenets of the philosophy of "Black Power" led to all of the following developments except:
D. The consolidations of civil rights organizations
Which of the following describes President Eisenhower's initial public attitude towards segregation?
C. Opposed segragation
Stokely Carmichael differed from Martin Luther King Jr. in that Carmichael:
B. Believed in violent confrontation
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided for the:
D. End of literacy tests in voter registration
The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to:
B. Defy the Supreme Court
In 1957, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by:
A. Deploying the National Guard
The organization founded by student civil rights activists was:
C. SNCC
Who was the first United States President to support Civil Rights legislation:
A. JFK
After his pilgrimage to Mekkah, Malcolm X concluded that:
C. An integrated society was possible
List the four steps of Civil Disobedience:
1. Investigation
2. Negotiation
3. Self-Purification
4. Direct Action
The Supreme Court Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who made sweeping reforms concerning civil liberties
Earl Warren
The Supreme Court Case that mandates a warrant be provided prior to a search and seizure
Mapp vs. Ohio
The Supreme Court case that mandates all suspects are read their rights upon being taken into custody is:
Ernesto Miranda
The Supreme Court case that forbids school prayer is:
Engle vs. Vital
During the 1960 election campaign, television aired its first:
C. Presidential Debate
The Republican nominee for president in the 1960 election was:
A. Richard Nixon
The resolution of the Cuban missile Crisis involved 3 key decisions:
1. The Soviet Union promised to remove missiles from Cuba
2. The US promised never to invade Cuba
3. The US promised to:
A. Remove missiles from Turkey
Kennedy's "flexible response" plan called for:
B. A commitment to negotiation
Kennedy was unable to pass many of his domestic programs because:
C. The Republicans held a large majority in the House of Representatives
The Alliance for Progress was a:
B. Series of cooperative aid projects with Latin American countries
Johnson's domestic program centered upon the issues of:
C. Social welfare
The reform program of Lyndon Johnson became known as the:
D. Great Society
Preschool programs for the disadvantaged:
D. Head Start
Government-funded health insurance for the elderly:
A. VISTA
Put young volunteers to work in poor neighborhoods:
E. VISTA
Provided college preparation for low-income teenagers:
G. Upward Bound
Helped young, unemployed people acquire employment skills: