HIST 12 M10; RQ

(Q039) Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever were affiliated with religious institutions.(T/F)

* False

(Q041) Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal.(T/F)

* False

(Q036) Although it was a nationwide phenomenon, 1950s suburbanization gathered its greatest momentum in the West. (T/F)

* True

(Q040) Richard Nixon's rise in politics was fueled in part by his ability to make free market conservatism appealing to ordinary people.(T/F)

* True

(Q046) In the post-World War II United States, Americans' daily lives were transformed by the widespread use of televisions, air conditioning, dishwashers, long-distance telephone calls, and jet travel.(T/F)

* True

(Q031) The tax rate for the richest Americans never fell below what percent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s? (a) 70 percent (b) 90 percent (c) 60 percent (d) 80 percent

a. 70 percent

(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of suburban married life during the 1950s? (a) a growing tendency of husbands and wives to share the roles of breadwinner and homemaker (b) a decrease in birth rates (c) a decline in divorce rates (d) a decreasing desire among husbands and wives to find fulfillment through the shared enjoyment of material comforts, recreation, and sexual relations

a. a decline in divorce rates

(Q022) What was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the "Warren Court" unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment? (a) Loving v. Virginia (b) Brown v. Board of Education (c) Plessy v. Ferguson (d) Menendez v. Westminster

b. Brown v. Board of Education

(Q018) Milton Friedman's book Capitalism and Freedom outlined which of the following ideas regarding individual liberty? (a) the adoption of the graduated income tax (b) the repeal of the Social Security system (c) an increase in the minimum wage laws (d) turning over to the government virtually all private-sector functions

b. the repeal of the Social Security System

(Q017) Under this kind of program, cities demolished poor neighborhoods in city centers that occupied potentially valuable real estate; in their place were constructed retail centers and all-white middle-income housing complexes. (a) white flight (b) urban renewal (c) suburbs (d) neighborhood stabilization program

b. urban renewal

(Q032) When did the "golden age" of capitalism following World War II begin to decline? (a) 1976 (b) 1975 (c) 1973 (d) 1974

c. 1973

(Q023) In the aftermath of Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white rider, a yearlong bus boycott took place in what city? (a) Memphis, Tennessee (b) Birmingham, Alabama (c) Montgomery, Alabama (d) Little Rock, Arkansas

c. Montgomery, Alabama

(Q004) While most Americans saw the alliance of the Defense Department and private industry as a source of jobs and national security, President Eisenhower felt it was a threat to democracy, calling this power the (a) daybreak-of-freedom syndrome. (b) massive resistance system. (c) military-industrial complex. (d) golden-era transition.

c. military-industrial complex.

(Q016) In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine (a) asserted a new level of American authority in Vietnam in the wake of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. (b) expanded the Marshall Plan to Southeast Asia. (c) pledged the United States to defend Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism. (d) declared that the military-industrial complex must be reined in.

c. pledged the United States to defend Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism.

(Q025) Which of the following influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1950s leadership of the civil rights movement? (a) a philosophy of struggle in which hate must be met with violence (b) the writings of Malcolm X, particularly his autobiography (c) the writings of civil disobedience of Thoreau and Gandhi (d) the violent protests of the Congress of Racial Equality

c. the writings of civil disobedience of Thoreau and Gandhi

(Q006) The so-called kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev occurred in (a) Stalingrad, Russia. (b) New York City, New York. (c) Beijing, China. (d) Moscow, Russia.

d. Moscow, Russia.

(Q013) Which was part of the new "social contract" between organized labor and management in leading industries during the 1950s? (a) Employers increased attempts to eliminate existing unions. (b) Employers took back benefits such as private pension plans, health insurance, and automatic cost-of-living pay adjustments to employees. (c) Unions sponsored "wildcat" strikes in order to discipline management. (d) Unions agreed to leave decisions regarding capital investment and plant location in management's hands.

d. Unions agreed to leave decisions regarding capital investment and plant location in management's hands.

(Q021) The principal organization in the Southwest--the equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)--that challenged restrictions on housing and employment, as well as the segregation of Latino students, was named (a) the National Urban League (NUL). (b) the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). (c) the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). (d) the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

d. the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

(Q011) The National Defense Education Act, which for the first time offered direct federal funding for higher education, was passed into law by Congress in 1957 in response to (a) inner-city riots, and the rise of feminist activist endeavors across the Midwest. (b) the French defeat by Vietnamese forces at Dien Bien Phu. (c) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States. (d) the Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik.

d. the Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik.

(Q012) The baby boom lasted until (a) the early 1980s. (b) the late 1950s. (c) the mid-1970s. (d) the mid-1960s.

d. the mid-1960s.