Quiz 6: Chapters 29-31
By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed
black power
After the war, Americans were most eager to
purchase
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in
Eastern Europe
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits
All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT
Japan
In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT
Japan
In the 1964 election
Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South
As the 1948 election approached
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble
The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT
a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons
Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as
abstract expressionism
With the end of World War II, Korea
became divided into northern and southern halves
Senator McCarthy was very effective in
exploiting public fears
In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty
generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans
Richard Nixon
had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by
men with new ideas and fresh thinking
Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966
occurred largely outside the South
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed segregation in public facilities
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
State Department official George Kennan
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership
significantly increased
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea
the United Nations authorized military interventions against the aggressors
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing
uniformity
The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s
was a major cause of the growth of the suburb
