50s test
The McCarran International Security Act:
Barred ¨totalitarians" from entering the United States
During the 1950s, television:
Became an effective advertising medium
The war in Korea
Began in 1950,when North Korean forces invaded South Korea
Elvis Presley's recordings
Blended a variety of musical styles
Which state become the most prominent symbol of the postwar suburban boom?
California
The Korean War
Ended in a stalemate
The baby boom
Is correctly represented by all the above statements
All of the following are enactments of the policy of containment EXCEPT
The Korean War
After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was
The Soviet Union
William Levitt is best associated with:
The suburban revolution
What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearing?
They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment
The Eisenhower Doctrine pledge support:
To any middle eastern country resisting communism or nationalism
How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift
In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin,Truman
Used a massive airlift to supply the city
The Marshall Plan:
Was a U.S soviet program to rebuild Europe
Along with a home and a TV, what become part of the "standard consumer package" of the 1950s
A car
President Truman's Fair Deal included:
A national health insurance plan
Joseph McCarthy
Accused George C.Marshall of disloyalty
Who did Whittaker Chambers accuse of being a Soviet spy during a HUAC hearing?
Alger Hiss
Which of the following statements about the original Levittown is not true?
Children were not allowed until after 1963.
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:
China
The Marshall Plan moved the nations of Western Europe
Closer to Communism
Alan Freed:
Coined the phrase "rock 'n' roll"
In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as
Consumers
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation:
Declared that any soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack
The youthful rebels known as the Beats
Favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz
The person usually credited with formulating the doctrine of containment was
George F.Kernan
All the following were Beats except
George Meany
The Taft-Hartley Act:
Outlawed the closed shop
Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?
Philippines
The Hiss-Chambers case
Resulted in Hiss's conviction for perjury
In its first application of the Truman Doctrine, Congress approved economic aid to :
Greece and Turkey
As a result of the Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
All of the following were original NATO members except
Japan
In the "China tangle ", Chiang Kai-shek fought against
Mao Tse-tung
Among the factors that cushioned the economic impact of demobilization after World War II were all the following except:
Reductions in business investments
State Department official George Kennan:
Said the United States should abandon Europe and focus on the defense of the Western Hemisphere
President Eisenhower used the CIA to overthrow which Middle Eastern government in the early 1950s, in large part because this government attempted to nationalize British-owned oil fields?
Iran
All the following factors promoted the growth of the suburbs except
Laws forbidding residential segregation by races.
In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon's Checkers speech:
Reflected the growing importance of television in American life
The "Iron Curtain"
Separated the free West from the communist East
The main economic problem faced by Truman in his first term was:
Inflation
What set a precedent for American assistance to anti communist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?
The Truman Doctrine
Which of the following was not a major stimulant to the post-1945 economy?
The movement of women into the workforce
The North Atlantic Treaty
Was originally signed by twelve nations
The Beats
Were, like the abstract expressionists, motivated by a desire to liberate self-expression
According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the:
United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism
The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s"
Was a major cause of the growth of the suburbs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Were executed for supposedly giving the Russians the secret to the atomic bomb
During Eisenhower administration , US-Soviet relations:
Were made worse with the introduction of the policy of massive retaliation
The United States entered the Korean War
Without a declaration of war by congress
The Marshall Plan of economic aid:
Was " directed not against country or doctrine,but against hunger,poverty,desperation,and chaos