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