ch. 27 quiz
What moderate liberal did Dwight Eisenhower defeat twice in presidential elections?
Adlai Stevenson
The courageous athlete who broke the "color line" in major-league baseball was
Jackie Robinson
Which group of Americans had 110,000 people imprisoned under Executive Order 9066?
Japanese-Americans
President Truman fired General MacArthur because
MacArthur had been insubordinate to the president's role as commander in chief
The young, charismatic leader of the successful Montgomery bus strike was
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Factors that contributed to the Second Red Scare included all of the following EXCEPT
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC THOUGHT
The civil rights movement placed its first focus on
NOT IMPROVING GHETTOS
Effects of the Korean War included all of the following EXCEPT
NOT NSC-68
One trend of the late 1940s was
NOT ORGANIZED LABOR
The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to
NOT SUPPORT ALL NATIONALIST MVMTS
All of the following statements about the Second Red Scare are true EXCEPT
NOT WHIMS IN CONGRESS
Which statement about American support for World War II is true?
The support for the war unified Americans across regional, national, and class divisions
In a 1950 speech in West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to be in possession of a list of communists employed in the State Department, leading to his rapid rise to national fame and extensive Congressional hearings on a supposed communist "infestation" of the federal government.
True
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the founder of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who did not first rise to great popularity in the 1950s?
The Beatles
One trend in governmental spending during the 1950s was
a significant increase in defense spending
A major effect of the Marshall Plan was
a strengthening of the economic relationship between the U.S. and western Europe
In the Presidential election of 1948, the
all of the above
The "Levittown" development on Long Island, New York,
all of the above
The Marshall Plan
all of the above
The dramatic rise of new suburban housing developments in the post-war years
all of the above
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
allowed the federal govt. to postpone a strike
The content of George Kennan's "long telegram" depicted
an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expanionist communism
Under the Truman Doctrine of 1947, the United States provided aid to two countries President Harry Truman believed to be threatened with communist takeover. Those countries were:
Greece and Turkey
Who replaced Henry Wallace as FDR's running mate in 1944?
Harry Truman
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that
segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
Under the "Truman Doctrine," the President argued that the United States should
support free people who were resisting subversion or aggression
Results of the communist victory in China included all of the following except
the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was no longer as intense has it had been
All of the following statements about American propaganda during the war are true EXCEPT
the Germans were uniformly portrayed as being more inherently evil than the Japanese
The Eisenhower administration used "New Deal-style" government spending in modernizing
the national highway system
In 1948, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the Berlin Blockade in response to
the planned creation of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as
white, polite, and satisfied
The Hollywood Ten was led by Ronald Reagan.
False
In the election of 1948, Harry Truman benefited from all of the following factors except
his popularity in the South caused him to sweep all electoral votes in that region
The loyalty program
resulted in the firings and resignations of many innocent American