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In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of

"the military-industrial complex."

Between 1945-1957, the growth of American consumerism was aided by

All these answers are correct.

Between 1945-1959, the United States policy in the Middle East saw the

CIA engineer a coup that brought the Shah of Iran to power

In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because

MacArthur publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.

Of the following, the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss primarily helped the political career of

Richard Nixon

Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Joseph McCarthy burst to national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the

State Department

In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

Winston Churchill

In his 1956 book on corporate America, The Organization Man, William Whyte Jr. contended

a worker's most valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along

In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by

beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees

In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful

In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for

each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others.

Following World War II, American scientists made a critical contribution to the development of penicillin by

finding methods for its mass production and commercial distribution.

During the 1950s, the United States government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

for the long-range delivery of weapons.

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave housing and education subsidies to veterans.

Following World War II, the American economy

grew nearly ten times faster than the population between 1945 and 1975.

Beginning in the late 1940s, William Levitt used mass-production techniques to sell

houses.

A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would

in the long run, do more good than harm

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War

In 1954, the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of

polio.

Michael Harrington's 1962 book, The Other America, focused on the problems of

poverty.

During the Korean War, the American invasion at Inchon

prompted President Truman to try and push communists out of North Korea

All of the following statements regarding the use of DDT are true EXCEPT that

scientists during WWII knew the pesticide had a long-term toxic effect on humans and animals.

The election of 1952 saw

television play a significant role in the campaign.

The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance.

In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas required

the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders.

In 1954, under John Foster Dulles's concept of "massive retaliation," the United States would

use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.