APUSH CH 37

Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?

There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.

After World War II ended, most American women

cared for their families and did not work outside the home.

The vast expansion of employment opportunities for women in the 1950s

All of these

The 1963 best-seller The Feminine Mystique

All of these

The impact of mass media on religion was reflected in the rise of religious televangelists like

Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.

The fundamental criticism directed against the new popular mass media culture in the 1950s, by such social critics as David Riesman and William H. Whyte,Jr., was that

Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves.

Which of these were NOT among the aspects of 1950s popular culture that conservatives found troubling?

Novels such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the

hard-line anticommunists.

Richard Nixon’s Checkers speech, during the 1952 presidential campaign

demonstrated the new power of television and kept him on the Republican ticket.

During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War.

blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria

In terms of politics, television did all of the following except

enable political parties to continue their role of educating and mobilizing the electorate.

Dwight Eisenhower’s greatest asset as president was his

enjoyment of the affection and respect of the American people.

Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the

one who most damaged free speech and fair play.

The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower’s strongest commitment during his presidency was to

social harmony.

In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist attacks, President Eisenhower

effectively allowed him to control personnel policy at the State Department.

Senator Joseph McCarthy first rose to national prominence by

charging that dozens of known communists were working within the U.S. State Department.

As a result of Senator McCarthy’s crusade against communist subversion in America

the State Department lost a number of Asian specialists who might have counseled a wiser course in Vietnam.

Senator McCarthy’s anticommunist crusade ended when he

attacked the United States Army for allegedly sheltering communists.

The new militancy and restlessness among many members of the African American community after 1945 was especially generated by

blacks’ increasing awareness during and after the war of the gap between American democratic ideals and racial practices.

In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregated system that they had created, African Americans used all of the following methods except

appeals to foreign governments to pressure the United States to establish racial justice.

When singer Paul Robeson began to criticize American racial policies in Europe

the State Department revoked Robeson’s passport.

Swedish writer Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma essentially argued that

America’s racial segregation was a hypocritical contradiction of its democratic ideals.

The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because

Congress and the presidency had largely abdicated their responsibilities by keeping hands off the issue.

In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court

declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.

The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems inherently unequal was

Brown v. Board of Education.

On the subject of racial justice, President Eisenhower

had advised against integrating the armed forces.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the

sit-in movement launched by young southern blacks.

As president, Dwight Eisenhower supported

putting the brakes on military spending.

President Eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as

dynamic conservatism.

Dwight Eisenhower’s policies toward Native Americans included

a return to the assimilation goals of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.

The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt’s New Deal was the

interstate highway system.

During his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower accepted the principle and extended the benefits of

the Social Security system.

As a part of his New Look foreign policy, President Eisenhower

called for open skies over both the United States and the Soviet Union.

As the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh’s communist forces in 1954, President Eisenhower

refused to permit any American military involvement.

President Eisenhower’s vehemently anticommunist secretary of state, through most of his two administrations, was

John Foster Dulles.

The basic military strategy of Eisenhower’s and Dulles’s New Look foreign policy in the 1950s aimed at

greater reliance on air power and the deterrent power of nuclear weapons than on the army and navy.

In 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued domination by the Soviet Union, the United States under Dwight Eisenhower

refused to admit any Hungarian refugees.

The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War I was

Ho Chi Minh.

The 1955 Geneva Conference

called for the two Vietnams to hold national elections within two years.

In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil, the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1953

staged a coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi as dictator-like monarch.

In 1956, the United States condemned ____ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal crisis.

Britain and France

During the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both

Iran and Guatemala.

The Suez crisis marked the last time in history that the United States could

use its oil weapon to make foreign policy demands.

The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of ____ that wanted help to resist communist aggression.

the Middle East

During his second term, President Eisenhower

took a more active personal role in governing.

In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957

the federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science and language education.

The Paris summit conference, scheduled for 1960, collapsed because of the

U-2 incident.

By the end of the 1950s, Latin American anger toward the United States had intensified because Washington had done all of the following except

provide encouragement to Fidel Castro’s communist government in Cuba.

The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was

his televised debates with Richard M. Nixon.

When Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961

he remained an extraordinarily popular figure.

Two postwar American fiction writers, who explored the problems and anxieties of affluence, were

John Updike and John Cheever.

The title of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man refers to a(n)

African American whose supposed supporters are unable to see him as a real man.

Compared to World War I, the literary outpouring after World War II tended to be

less focused on realistic portrayals of war.

Some of the better-known American poets in the post-World War II era

ended their lives through suicide.

The Beat Generation can be described in all of the following ways except

in founding their own movement, the hippies later rejected many of the Beat notions.