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