byu push semester 2
What was the immediate cause of the Korean War in 1950?
North Korea's military invasion of South Korea
What did The Other America declare in its findings?
Over a fifth of American families lived below the poverty line.
Which of these happened in the United States during the Korean War?
Spending on the war helped keep the economy stable at a time when many feared recession.
Which of the following is true of the campaign of 1952?
Television played a role in shaping public perception of the candidates.
What happened as a result of the Korean War?
The American public worried something was wrong with their country.
What happened in the election of 1948?
The Democratic Party split in three.
What did traditional historians of the Cold War generally believe?
The Soviet Union was primarily responsible for the start of the rivalry.
Which of the following events happened by the end of 1950?
The United States agreed to aid most Western European nations if they were attacked.
Which of these events happened by the end of 1950?
The United States gave away $13 billion to help European economies rebuild.
Which of these breakthroughs did NOT happen by 1960?
The United States launched a human pilot into space.
What did revisionist historians believe regarding the Cold War?
The United States was more responsible for the Cold War than traditionalists thought.
Which of these happened in the 1950s?
The development of Levittowns allowed many Americans to move to the suburbs.
Which of the following happened in the Korean War?
The early fighting was very mobile, but later there was mostly stalemate.
What happened to the American economy in the 1950s?
The economy more than doubled in size.
During the Truman administration, which of these was true of the federal government's crusade against Communist espionage?
The government prosecuted and convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of spying on the Manhattan Project.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the larger effect of the policy stated in this speech on reshaping the role of the United States in global affairs?
The nation became the political and economic leader of the Western world in the following years.
Which of these statements was true for farmers in the 1950s
The number of farmers in the nation was shrinking swiftly.
What happened following the decisions in the 1954 and 1955 Brown v. Board of Education cases?
The precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson with respect to education was overturned.
Which of the following is true about negotiations among the Americans, British, and Soviets at the Yalta Conference?
These countries gave themselves and others a veto on the Security Council.
Which of these is true about the actions of the United States in the early Cold War?
They kept the country in a position of global leadership after its intervention in World War II.
Which statement is true of American inner cities in the 1950s?
They struggled with the consequences of ghettoization.
Which of these is true of labor unions in the 1950s?
They struggled with the corruption that accompanied wealth.
Which of these places events in the correct chronological order?
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, McCarthyism
Which of these trends happened after World War II?
U.S. labor unions were more likely to go on strike.
In 1949, President Harry S. Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass ________.
aid for public housing
After World War II, what did the Soviet Union seem to want?
an international order in which the great powers controlled spheres of influence
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ________.
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all
All of these helped create or popularize early rock 'n' roll EXCEPT which one?
declining record sales
During World War II, the U.S. and the USSR ________.
disagreed at the Teheran Conference about Poland
Which broad U.S. policy goal of the mid-twentieth century was supported by the implementation of the policy proposed in this speech?
political and economic resistance to the spread of Soviet Communist influence abroad
All these were important causes of the civil rights movement of the 1950s EXCEPT which one?
presidential and congressional leadership
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of containment was ________.
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years
The beats often criticized which of these?
the conformity of American life
What did President Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal call for?
the creation of national health insurance
What was the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947?
the movie industry
At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, what basic disagreements remained?
the postwar government of Poland
After World War II, the United States hoped for a world based on ________ .
the principles of the Atlantic Charter
What was the purpose of Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal?
to expand Social Security and create national health care
When did President Harry S. Truman initially decide to "get tough" with the Soviet Union?
when he had been in office for only a few days
Why did President Harry S. Truman relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command in 1951?
MacArthur publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.
Which of these is true about recreation in 1950s America?
Many people watched television shows that reinforced suburban values.
What happened during Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in the government in the early 1950s?
McCarthy never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a Communist.
Which of the following provides the best rationale for the policy being supported in the above speech?
A swift economic recovery of the war-devastated countries would provide political stability against Communism.
Which group had the largest number of people migrate into cities from 1940 to 1960?
African Americans
Which of these was a consequence of the Korean War?
Close to 10 percent of Korea's population was killed.
What started the Korean War?
Communist North Korea invaded non-Communist South Korea.
Which of these scientific achievements did NOT happen by 1960?
DDT killed malaria-causing parasites and farm pests without harming humans.
What happened during the civil rights movement in the late 1950s?
Despite some Supreme Court rulings, segregation persisted.
What happened in the 1948 presidential election?
Early polls seemed to indicate that Harry S. Truman would lose.
Which of these is true regarding what happened in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955?
Economic pressure and Supreme Court rulings ended some kinds of segregation
What happened at the Tehran Conference in late 1943?
Franklin D. Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months.
Which statement is true regarding the actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s?
He hoped to detect and remove Communist sympathizers from government positions.
Which of these actions did Truman take in his second term as president?
He issued an executive order to desegregate the military.
How was General Douglas MacArthur involved in the Korean War?
He led the UN counterinvasion that drove the North Koreans out of South Korea.
What happened when Harry S. Truman became president?
It became apparent that Germany would remain divided in the foreseeable future.
Which statement was true of the American policy of containment after World War II?
It supported the actions of the Truman Doctrine.