History test 1950-1970

The Twenty-second Amendment:

prohibited presidents from serving more than two terms

In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court

required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

The Hiss-Chambers case:

resulted in Hiss's conviction for perjury

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

retained most and even expanded some of them

The baby boom:

started in 1946

To President Eisenhower, the most important reason to construct the interstate highway system was to:

strengthen national defense

In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:

the Department of Homeland Security

One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:

the Pledge of Allegiance

In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:

the State Department

All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT

the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen

Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:

the gross national product almost doubled

Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to

those over age sixty-five

Kennedy's legislative program:

was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress

By the end of the Eisenhower years, public school integration

was still massively opposed in the Deep South

The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960:

were largely ineffective

All of the following were sources of Dwight David Eisenhower's political appeal EXCEPT his:

years as a leader in Congress

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:

became the first country to recognize the Jewish state

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

belonged to a church

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions

The Cuban missile crisis

brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war

All of the following are true of Sputnik 1 EXCEPT that it:

carried a nuclear warhead

In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as

consumers

One major way Eisenhower's conservatism was revealed was in his determination to:

cut taxes and government spending

The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to

deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba

John Foster Dulles criticized the containment policy because it:

did not seek to liberate Eastern Europe from communism

The 1954 Geneva Accords:

divided Vietnam until elections two years later

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

dramatically expanded black votes in the South

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

each have veto power over major UN decisions

On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:

expand the New Deal

Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:

gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to

give up their jobs to returning veterans

The purpose of Kennedy's proposed tax cut was to

help the economy by stimulating consumer spending

In the immediate postwar period, much of Africa and Asia was swept by movements devoted to:

nationalism

Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

new problems and forms of exploitation

In the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater

offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies

Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the

Brooklyn Dodgers

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

China

By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:

Eastern Europe

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the

Great Society

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism

T/F At the end of World War II, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel.

True

T/F Henry Wallace ran for president in 1948 as the Progressive party candidate.

True

T/F Many adults, having experienced the Depression and wartime rationing, were eager to consume more in the 1950s.

True

T/F The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to coins and currency in the 1950s.

True

Ho Chi Minh's primary goal was:

Vietnamese independence

The arrest of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 inspired

a massive bus boycott

Elvis Presley's recordings

appealed equally to all ages and generations

One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to

avoid losing it to communism