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According to Gunnar Myrdal, Americas dilemma was a conflict between
American values and American racial policies.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of the Asian-Americans experience during World War II
Executive order 9066 fully inter grated Asian-American into U.S. Army units serving overseas
How did Truman respond to Joseph Stalins blockade around Berlin
He ordered an airlift.
Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended?
Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values.
Which statement about the Pearl Harbor attack is true
It was a surprise attack by the Japanese
How did the league of United Latin American Citizens regard Mexican-Americans
Mexican-Americans we're white and deserved the same rights that other whites had
How did Los Angeles epitomize the new emphasis on the car in 1950s America?
People drove to and from work on a web of highways and shopped at malls only accessible by driving.
What event renewed the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1960?
The Soviets shot down a U.S. spy plane flying over their territory.
Which of the following assessments of the civil rights movement is most accurate?
The movement came as a great surprise and was predicted only by a few
What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?
They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.
Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?
They were afraid that otherwise, western European nations might fall under Soviet influence
Civil rights initiatives after 1948
Waned, given widespread American sentiment that any criticism of American society smacked of "disloyalty"
During the 1950s, mass consumption was promoted as
a Patriotic Act
The McCarran-Walter Act
authorized the deportation of communists, including naturalized citizens.
"Militant Liberty" was the code name for a national security agency that
encourage hollywood to produce anticommunist movies
The Good Neighbor Policy
showed Roosevelt intention to not interfere in Latin America
The Truman Doctrine assumed
the United States would provide aid to any anticommunist regime, even if it was not a democratic one.
The double-V campaign was
the effort to end discrimination against blacks while fighting fascism.
What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?
the possibility of doing men's jobs and receiving men's wages
In the United States during World War II
unemployment declined and income taxes increased.
In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court
upheld the legality of Japanese internment.
The "Iron Curtain"
was a term used in reference to the division between the capitalist West and communist East
During World War II, African Americans
witnessed the birth of the modern civil rights movement
After World War II, most working women
worked part-time to help support the family's lifestyle.
How did the role of the national government change during the war
It grew and created several federal agencied to regulate the war effort
Under the bracero program
Mexicans immigrated without the right of citizenship
Prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, what experience did Rosa Parks have with the civil rights movement?
She had been involved in civil rights protests since the 1930s.
Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government in Poland in 1945
Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.
What was one result of the Mendez v. Westminster decision?
The schools of Orange County were desegregated, which soon spread to the entire state
After World War II, the automobile
became central to suburban life
William Levitt, with the help of the GI bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to
became homeowners
During the 1950s, television
became the most common source of information.
Black internationalism during World War II
connected the plight of black Americans to that of people of color worldwide.
During the 1950s, American teenagers
grew in number, cultivating their own popular culture.
The "zoot suit" riots of 1943
highlighted the limits of racial tolerance during World War II
What did Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1955) protest?
materialism and conformism
Between 946 and 1960, the American gross national product
more than doubled, and wages increased
Between 1950 and 1970, suburbanization
strengthened racial divisions.
The four freedoms
were considered by President Roosevelt as "essential human freedoms"
Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School:
with defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out.