HST ch.24

The Truman Doctrine, in March 1947,

asserted that the United States, as the leader of the "free world," must take up responsibility for supporting "freedom-loving peoples" wherever communism threatened them.

Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever were affiliated with religious institutions

false

As president, Eisenhower sought to roll back the New Deal, abolish social security and unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs

false

During the 1950s, the farm population rose from 15 million to 23 million, while agricultural production declined by 25 percent.

false

Orval Faubus was among the attorneys on the team hired by the NAACP to pursue the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.

false

President Eisenhower hailed the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education as a positive move toward a more equal and just America; when a federal court ordered that Autherine Lucy be admitted to the University of Alabama in 1956, Eisenhower authorized the use of federal troops in her support

false

Prior to her arrest that led to the Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa Parks had never been involved in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activism

false

In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's image

from defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for whom heavy taxation had become a burden

Which of the following was not a key cause of the economic prosperity of the Fifties

large income tax reductions

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

the Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik

Which of the following did not inform Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, 1950s leadership of the civil rights movement

the writings of Malcolm X., particularly his autobiography

During the 1950s, material consumption came more and more to eclipse economic independence and democratic engagement as the hallmarks of American freedom

true

In 1956, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar factory and manual labourers

true

In the 1950s, the National Security Council advised President Eisenhower to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam

true

In the consumer culture of the 1950s, the measure of freedom became the ability to gratify market desires

true