Douglas MacArthur

According to your textbook, in 1959 this percentage of Americans had no financial assets to their name.

25 percent

Which of the following was not part of Kennedy's domestic program?

Abolishing welfare

After World War II, this minority group immigrated to the North in record numbers.

African American

This organization was created to assist Native Americans during the 1960s.

American Indian Movement

His account of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts was really an allegory for the McCarthy hearings.

Arthur Miller

A new group to emerge in the 1950s that rejected traditional values and materialism were the

Beats

For 11 months, this program provided food to the people of West Berlin while it was blockaded by Soviet forces.

Berlin airlift

During the cold war, this agency was used to influence world events.

CIA

When the United Nations forces drew too close to the North Korean northern border, which nation attacked them?

China

In working with the Russians, President Nixon pursued a policy of

Detente

Because of his behavior, President Truman fired this general during the Korean War.

Douglas MacArthur

Which of the following was not passed during President Nixon's administration?

Equal Rights Amendment

In an attempt to provide for the returning United States soldiers after WWII, Congress passed the

GI Bill of Rights

Who ran as an American Independent in the 1968 presidential election?

George Wallace

What did President Kennedy do after his disastrous performance at the Vienna Summit?

He called up National Guard units to protect West Berlin

What did President Ford do that started off his presidency on the wrong foot?

He pardoned Nixon

The American GI Forum was created after World War II to deal with issues facing

Hispanics

The first African American to play baseball for a major league team was

Jackie Robinson

The "father" of Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation was

John F. Dulles

Dismissed by the Kennedy brothers as a buffoon, he would succeed President Kennedy after his assassination.

Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson's plan to provide health insurance for the elderly is known as

Medicare.

Founded in the 1960s, this group worked to promote the advancement of women

NOW

What increased the anti-war protests in the fall of 1969

Nixon's increased air war

This individual was the most requested speaker during the 1950s because of his promotion of the "good news" and his book The Power of Positive Thinking.

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the first pieces of legislation signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, it lowered the tax rate by 20 percent.

Revenue Act

The meeting between President Nixon and the Soviet Union resulted in the ___________ treaty.

SALT I

During the Eisenhower administration, all but which one of the following were desegregated in Washington, D.C.?

Schools

his document gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to prevent further aggression in Vietnam toward the United States.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The United States ship that was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin was

The U.S.S. Maddox

What occurred immediately after World War II ended in the United States?

The United States reverted to the Great Depression

What was not one of the factors that occurred after WWII that led to the Cold War?

The return of fascism in Italy, forcing a division in the United Nations

During the Cold War, what did Soviet agents use to draw attention to defects in the American way of life?

The treatment of minorities

Cesar Chavez is best associated with which group?

UFW

In the Korean War, who supplied South Korea with war material

United States

The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union came down to differences between the ideologies of _____________ and ___________.

capitalism, communism

The most important issue of President Kennedy's administration was

civil rights.

President Nixon's New Federalism plan promoted

sending federal monies to the states to spend as they saw fit.

The defining moment for baby boomers was

the Vietnam War.

Nixon's plan for winning the presidency was known as

the southern strategy