chapter 30- HIST 1302 – Flashcards
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After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, Eisenhower
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suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba
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One likely cause of juvenile delinquency during the 1950s was the
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greater mobility provided by cars
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As a result of the Little Rock crisis, the city's high schools closed rather than allow integration.
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True
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"White flight" described the migration to the new sunbelt.
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False
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Most blacks who migrated to the North lived in the suburbs.
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False
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After World War II, a significant migration occurred from
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cities to suburbs
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William Levitt's homes were not initially available to blacks.
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True
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A major catalyst for the Suez War in 1956 was the cancelation by the United States of a major dam project in Egypt.
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True
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John Keats' The Crack in the Picture Window was a stinging critique of
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suburban life
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The GI Bill helped eliminate differences in the opportunities for blacks and whites in higher education.
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False
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The "Sputnik syndrome" led to
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all of the above
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Eisenhower failed in his objective to abolish the Social Security program.
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False
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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. based his philosophy of nonviolent disobedience on
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all of the above
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Two monuments to the Eisenhower presidency were
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interstate highways and the St. Lawrence Seaway
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Eisenhower said that the "biggest damnfool mistake I ever made" was
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appointing Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court
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The Geneva Accords involving Southeast Asia
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called for elections to unify Vietnam
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The most popular household product after World War II was the air conditioner
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False
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John Foster Dulles advocated more than containment in foreign policy, namely the liberation of Eastern Europe.
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True
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"Dynamic conservatism" meant being conservative about money but liberal about people.
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True
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During the postwar prosperity, the
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gap between the average incomes for blacks and whites increased
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The ideal for middle-class women in the 1950s was to be
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a wife and mother
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"Massive Resistance" is the term used for
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white resistance to court-ordered integration of the schools
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The Hungarian revolt of 1956 was a victory for
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communism
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Challenges to the Plessy decision's separate-but-equal doctrine were led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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True
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"One nation under God" was added to all U.S. currency in 1955.
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False
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The leader of the North Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh.
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True
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President Eisenhower strongly supported enforcement of the Brown decision
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False
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In December 1954, the Senate voted 67 to 22 to expel Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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False
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Norman Vincent Peale was a leading exponent of
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positive thinking
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The election of 1952 was a turning point in politics because
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Eisenhower won several southern states
