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After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United states was: |
the Soviet Union. |
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The policy of "containment" can best be described as: |
preventing the spread of communism worldwide. |
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The "Iron Curtain" |
separated the free West from the communist East. |
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Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan? |
They were afraid that if they did not help with he recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence. |
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The Berlin Blockade was: |
the reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a separate currency in western Berlin’s occupied zones. |
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Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for? |
A permanent military buildup and a global application of containment. |
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Why did the United States back away from pressuring its European allies to grant self-government to colonies in Asia and Africa? |
American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War. |
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The impact of the Cold War on American culture was: |
especially evident in the movies. |
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: |
included freedom of speech and religion. |
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How did the Soviet focus on social and economic rights in the Cold War human rights debate affect American attitudes? |
In the climate of anticommunist hysteria, it prompted many Americans to condemn these rights as a first step to socialism. |
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Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946? |
The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers’ real income. |
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President Truman’s civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT: |
reparations. |
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All of the following statements about the Cold War’s impact on American life are true EXCEPT: |
Cold War military spending weakened the economy. |
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Operation Wetback: |
was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation. |
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How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric? |
They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda. |
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Civil rights initiatives after 1948: |
waned, given widespread American sentiment that any criticism of American society smacked of "disloyalty." |
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The Taft-Hartley Act: |
outlawed the closed shop. |
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What about the golden age of capitalism between 1946 and 1960 was most beneficial for Americans? |
Most monetary gains reached ordinary citizens through rising wages. |
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Which of the following is NOT true about the growth of the postwar West? |
Washington and Oregon eclipsed California’s population, due to unprecedented employment opportunities in the defense industry. |
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Why did auto manufacturers and oil companies vault to the top ranks of corporate America in the 1950s? |
The consumer demand for the automobile boomed in this decade. |
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Why were American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated? |
Residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred the sale to non-white residents. |
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Between 1950 and 1970, suburbanization: |
hardened racial divisions in American life. |
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How did American companies contribute to the influx of Puerto Rican migrants by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the 1950s? |
The increasing control of land by U.S. sugar companies on the island pushed small tobacco and coffee farmers off the land and into a search for jobs on the mainland. |
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The new conservatives: |
emphasized tradition, community, and moral commitment. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed which kind of individuals to his cabinet? |
Wealthy businessmen to run the government like an efficient business. |
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How did President Dwight D. Eisenhower surpass the New Deal in Government involvement in the economy? |
He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways. |
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’s policy of massive retaliation: |
declared that any Soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack. |
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Why did the Soviet Union strongly support the national independence movements in the new Third World? |
They hoped to convince new nations to ally themselves with the eastern bloc against European and American imperialists. |
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Ngo Dinh Diem: |
was backed by the United States in his decision to ignore the Geneva Accords’ plan for elections in Vietnam. |
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What made Elvis such a popular celebrity? |
He brought the rhythms and sexually provocative movements of black musicians to white audiences. |
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What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi? |
The idea of peaceful civil disobedience. |
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Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School: |
with defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out. |
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The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon: |
highlighted the impace of television on political campaigns. |
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Which event did President John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration? |
The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. |
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In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans about: |
the military-industrial complex. |
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The Freedom Rides of 1961 traveled through which of the following states? |
Alabama and Mississippi |
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The 1963 March on Washington: |
was a high point in black and white cooperation. |
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What did President John F. Kennedy have in common with his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower? |
Both tended to view the entire world through the lens of the Cold War. |
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During the Bay of Pigs invasion: |
the CIA failed in its mission. |
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Which of the following was NOT true of the Cuban Missile Crisis? |
The crisis was part of a dispute between the United States and he Soviet Union after a U.S. Navy vessel carrying nuclear warheads was intercepted off the coast of Turkey. |
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Why did John F. Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation? |
He found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States’ claim for leadership of the free world. |
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During Freedom Summer: |
a coalition of civil rights groups launched a voter registration drive in Mississippi |
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What did the defeat of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater show? |
The civil rights movement had redrawn the political map and opened the South to he Republican Party. |
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On what grounds could foreign nationals apply for immigrant status in the United States after 1965? |
Their family ties to U.S. citizens or other immigrants. |
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Which of the following statements best describes the legacy of the War on Poverty? |
It helped significantly reduce America’s incidence of poverty. |
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The free speech movement: |
began in Berkeley to protest a campus ban on political groups convening and distributing literature at a central meeting place. |
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Why did the United States continue to support South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem’s corrupt and weak regime? |
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson feared losing Vietnam to communism. |
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After the Stonewall riot: |
a militant gay liberation movement was born. |
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In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v Arizona that: |
those in police custody had certain rights. |
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The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision: |
created a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. |
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