AP Review Questions for Chapter 37

Which of the following international crises amply demonstrated the futility of the stated Eisenhower administration policy of massive retaliation and the limitations on its ability to roll back communist geo- political gains?

A. The Hungarian revolt in 1956

Which federal public works program promoted by President Eisenhower was far larger and more expensive than any program of Roosevelt's New Deal?

A. The interstate highway system

Which of the following best summarizes the fundamental criticism directed against the new popular mass media culture of the early post World War II era offered by social critics such as David Riesman and William H. Whyte, Jr.?

B. Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves

Which of the following was NOT true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?

B. There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry

All of the following American writers portrayed varying and illuminating aspects of African American life and identity in postwar America EXCEPT

C. Arthur Miller

Which of the following represented the strategic military policy underlying President Eisenhower's and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' "new look" foreign policy in the 1950s?

C. Greater reliance on air power and the deterrent power of nuclear weapons than on the army and navy

In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregated system they had created, African Americans used all of the following strategies EXCEPT

C. appeals to foreign governments to pressure the US to establish racial justice.

The Suez crisis marked a turning point in American foreign policy because

C. it marked the last time that the US could use its oil as a "weapon"

What prompted the US supreme court to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s, beginning with the landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

D. Congress and the presidency had largely abdicated their responsibility by taking a hands off approach to civil rights.

Which factor do some historians believe tipped the electoral scales for Senator John F. Kennedy against VP Richard Nixon in the presidential election of 1960?

D. Kennedy's televised debates with Richard Nixon.

All of the following were true about the rise and fall of the notorious anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph McCarthy EXCEPT that

D. President Eisenhower, at an early stage during Senator McCarthy's political rise, publicly denounced McCarthy's slanderous and demagogic attacks against Americans loyally working for the US government.

Which of the following is NOT an effect of television on American culture?

D. The creation of rock 'n' roll music

By the end of the 1950s, Latin American anger toward the US had intensified because Washington had done all of the following EXCEPT

D. provide diplomatic support and economic assistance to Fidel Castro's revolutionary government in Cuba.

What campaign pledge did Republican presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower make that sealed his 1952 election victory over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson?

E. Eisenhower promised to personally travel to Korea to end the war.

Which of the following was NOT an American government response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957?

E. Passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act