AMH 2020-Chapters: 27, 28, 29 and 30
The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:
Alger Hiss
Jack Kerouac's style of writing is commonly grouped into this type of literature:
Beats
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:
Brooklyn Dodgers
The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:
Buddhists
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 30
Within a year after taking control of the South, the Vietnamese Communists were at war with the:
Cambodian Communists
Nixon's new relationship with China was made possible by:
China's growing fear of the Soviet Union
All of the following became critical of Johnson's Vietnam policy EXCEPT:
General William Westmoreland
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
Long Island, New York
The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
Stalin's quest for world domination
As the 1948 election approached:
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble
Jimmy Carter's victory in the 1976 election was aided by all of the following EXCEPT:
a huge voter turnout
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
abolishing Social Security
At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to:
adopt a strong civil rights plank
By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:
belonged to a church
Elvis Presley's recordings:
blended a variety of musical styles
In the early 1970s, angry protests began to erupt in cities outside the South over:
busing
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
can veto any major proposal
In his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Martin Luther King:
declared his willingness to break unjust laws
The most important factor behind the sexual revolution of the 1960s was the:
development of birth-control pills
In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:
erecting the Berlin Wall
Senator McCarthy was very effective in:
exploiting public fears
Truman fired MacArthur:
for insubordination
Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:
genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
had an Ivy League education
In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:
inevitable
Dwight Eisenhower considered himself a:
moderate Republican
Blacks who moved to northern cities found:
new problems and forms of exploitation
Nixon's Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had:
ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:
persistence of poverty
Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:
poverty
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
Changes in immigration law in 1965:
removed quotas based upon national origin
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:
resulted in massive rioting in the streets
In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:
retained most and even expanded some of them
The Pentagon Papers:
revealed that the Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to war policy
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
significantly increased
One major impetus behind the rise of a Native American rights movement was the:
terrible levels of poverty that persisted in the Indian population
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:
that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:
the State Department
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
the U.S. Army
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors
In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from:
the federal government
In 1948, President Truman desegregated:
the military
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
the passage of a large tax cut
To punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):
threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States
In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:
was the site of a free-speech movement (FSM)
The Bay of Pigs invasion:
was thoroughly bungled by the CIA