Chapter 38 Test Answers – Flashcards
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During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to tend the Korean War.
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personally got to Korea
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Dwight Eisenhower's greatest asset as president was his
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enjoyment of the affection and respect of the American people
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The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower's strongest commitment during his presidency was to
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social harmony
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In response to Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower
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publicly denounced him when he attacked General George Marshall
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Senator McCarthy rose to national prominence by
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charging that dozens of know Communists were working within the State Department
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As a result of Senator McCarthy's crusade against communist subversion in the US
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the state department lost a number of Asian specialists who might have might have counseled a wiser course in Vietnam
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Senator McCarthy's anti-communist crusade ended when he
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alleged that there were communists in the army
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In an effort to overturn Jim Craw laws ans the segregated system that they had created, African Americans used all of the following methods except
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appeals to foreign governments to pressure the US to establish racial justice
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Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other three
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Orval Faubus (related are nonviolent direct action, Martin Luther Kin, Jr., Rosa Parks, Mongomery bus boycott)
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The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because
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the constitution clearly prohibited any segregation
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In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court
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declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional
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The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems "inherently unequal" was
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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On the subject of racial justice, President Eisenhower
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publicly endorsed the 1954 Supreme Court school-desegregation decision
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As president, Eisenhower supported
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military budget cuts
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President eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as
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dynamic conservatism
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Eisenhower's policies toward Native Americans included
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a return to the assimilation goals of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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Richardson Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the
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hard line anticommunist
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In terms of politics, television did all of the following EXCEPT
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enable political parties to continue their role of educating and mobilizing the electorate
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Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the
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one who most damaged free speech
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The largest public works project during Eishenhower's presidency was
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construction of the interstate highway system
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President Eisenhower's "New Look" foreign policy in the 1950s planned for
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greater reliance on air power and the deterrent power of nuclear weapons
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In 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued dominatin by the Soviet Union, the US under Eisenhower
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did nothing to help to defeat the communists
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The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since WWI was
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Ho Chi Minh
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the 1955 Geneva Conference
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established a permanent division of Vietnam
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In 1956, the US condemned ____ as the agressors in the Suez Canal crisis
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Britain and France
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During the 1950 s the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both
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Iran and Guatemala
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The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of ___ that wanted help to resist communist aggression
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the Middle East
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Which of the following is least related to the other three?
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Landrum Griffith Act (related are launching of Sputnik, National Defense Education Act, the "missile gap', National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA))
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The Paris summit conference scheduled for 1960 was aborted by the
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U-2 incident
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What may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was
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his televised debates with Richard Nixon
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When Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961
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he remained an extraordinarily popular figure
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The affluent life style developed in AMerica during the 1950s stimulated mainly by
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the new technology of television
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All of the following were harbingers of the emerging new life style of leisure and affluence EXCEPT
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the maturity of radio
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Compared to WWI, the literacy outpouring from WWII can be best described as
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less realistic
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Many of the better known American poets in the post WWII ear
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ended their lives through suicide
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In the 1950s, the work force began to change when
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white collar workers outnumbered blue collar workers
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Between 1950 and 1980, the majority of newly created jobs in the clerical and service fields were held by
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women
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sports reflected the population shift toward West and the South
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when baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved to California
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In her book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan discusses
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the stifling boredome of suburban housewifery
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The bracero program between the US and Mexico involved
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sending illegal aliens back to Mexico
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In the 1950s, the key to economic growth rested in
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electronics
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When Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961
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he remained an extraordinarily popular figure
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The rapid upsurge in the employment of women after 1945 can be attributed mainly to
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the expansion of the service sector
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Prospects for a Democratic victory in the 1952 presidential election were poor for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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Truman's refusal to seek another term
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The cold war seemed to thaw a little when, in 1955, the Soviet Union agreed to
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end its military occupation of Austria
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In response to the launching of SPutnik by the Soviet Union in 1957
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President Eisenhower remarked that this event should not cause "one Iota" of concern
