chapter 28 HIST 1302
The election of 1952 was a turning point in politics because
Eisenhower won several southern states
"One nation under God" was added to all U.S. currency in 1955.
False
"White flight" described the migration to the new sunbelt.
False
Eisenhower failed in his objective to abolish the Social Security program.
False
In December 1954, the Senate voted 67 to 22 to expel Senator Joseph McCarthy.
False
Most blacks who migrated to the North lived in the suburbs.
False
President Eisenhower strongly supported enforcement of the Brown decision
False
The GI Bill helped eliminate differences in the opportunities for blacks and whites in higher education.
False
The most popular household product after World War II was the air conditioner
False
"Dynamic conservatism" meant being conservative about money but liberal about people.
True
A major catalyst for the Suez War in 1956 was the cancelation by the United States of a major dam project in Egypt.
True
As a result of the Little Rock crisis, the city's high schools closed rather than allow integration.
True
Challenges to the Plessy decision's separate-but-equal doctrine were led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
True
John Foster Dulles advocated more than containment in foreign policy, namely the liberation of Eastern Europe.
True
The leader of the North Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh.
True
William Levitt's homes were not initially available to blacks.
True
The ideal for middle-class women in the 1950s was to be
a wife and mother
The "Sputnik syndrome" led to
all of the above
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. based his philosophy of nonviolent disobedience on
all of the above
Eisenhower said that the "biggest damnfool mistake I ever made" was
appointing Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court
The Geneva Accords involving Southeast Asia
called for elections to unify Vietnam
After World War II, a significant migration occurred from
cities to suburbs
The Hungarian revolt of 1956 was a victory for
communism
During the postwar prosperity, the
gap between the average incomes for blacks and whites increased
One likely cause of juvenile delinquency during the 1950s was the
greater mobility provided by cars
Two monuments to the Eisenhower presidency were
interstate highways and the St. Lawrence Seaway
Norman Vincent Peale was a leading exponent of
positive thinking
John Keats' The Crack in the Picture Window was a stinging critique of
suburban life
After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, Eisenhower
suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba
"Massive Resistance" is the term used for
white resistance to court-ordered integration of the schools
