HIST 1302-Quiz 6

Although suburban communities were segregated in the 1950s, today, communities such as Levittown on Long Island are completely racially integrated. T/F

False

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled against provisions that would have allowed banks and private developers from barring non-whites from home ownership in the suburbs. T/F

False

By the mid-1950s, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar factory and manual laborers. T/F

True

Harry Truman's reelection in 1948 was one of the greatest upsets in American political history. T/F

True

Operation Dixie was: a. the postwar union campaign in the South. b. a postwar strike wave. c. the mass return of African-Americans to the South after World War II. d. an effort to increase black suffrage. e. the congressional effort to outlaw lynching.

a. the postwar union campaign in the South.

The "standard consumer package" of the 1950s included a car, house, and television. T/F

True

The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War. T/F

True

All of the following statements are true of the Fair Deal EXCEPT: a. Congress passed Truman's Fair Deal to raise the standard of living for Americans. b. the Fair Deal included a provision to increase the minimum wage. c. the Fair Deal included a provision to expand Social Security coverage. d. the Fair Deal included a provision to expand public housing. e. the Fair Deal included a provision to create a national health insurance program.

a. Congress passed Truman's Fair Deal to raise the standard of living for Americans.

During the 1950s, television: a. became an effective advertising medium. b. presented shows that were controversial. c. became the nation's least favorite form of leisure activity. d. effectively spread images of working-class life to a growing number of Americans. e. tried to replace newspapers as the most common source of information but failed.

a. became an effective advertising medium.

Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended? a. It was clear as early as the Tehran conference that Stalin had never intended to follow through on any of the Grand Alliance agreements. b. Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values. c. The Soviet Union had not fulfilled its obligations from the Yalta Conference. d. Exploitation of Iran's northern oil fields suggested the Soviet Union was already ahead of the United States in postwar economic development. e. FDR had privately urged his advisers that the wartime friendly relationship between both nations could never last.

b. Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values.

How did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rhetoric? a. They pointed out that the United States' only reliable ally against the Soviet Union was the apartheid regime of South Africa. b. They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda. c. They pointed to the interracial society of the Soviet Union as a warning sign. d. They stressed the fact that African-Americans were twenty times more likely to be communist than whites. e. They proposed deputizing the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as an anticommunist paramilitary unit.

b. They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda.

Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán: a. was ousted by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet-friendly dictator. b. sought to reduce foreign corporations' control over his country's economy. c. was a friend and close ally of Soviet premier Josef Stalin before his death. d. was born in Moscow and became a nationalist after emigrating to Guatemala. e. appealed to President Eisenhower for military support to defeat a growing communist insurgency in Guatemala.

b. sought to reduce foreign corporations' control over his country's economy.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: a. marked the end of the civil rights movement. b. was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. c. lasted less than two weeks. d. did not succeed in desegregating the public buses. e. propelled Thurgood Marshall into the national spotlight as a leader in the civil rights movement.

b. was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

What was so ironic about Dean Acheson's speech to the Delta Council in 1947? a. The Under Secretary of State was warning the same audience against the Cold War that had already heard Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech a month prior. b. Acheson was delivering a speech meant for new African-American Democrats in Mississippi to a gathering of white supremacists. c. Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in the place that did not know democracy. d. Acheson had delivered the same speech to the council the year before. e. Acheson was urging the gathering of cotton planters to automate production, while the Democrats were pushing for fair wages for black farmworkers.

c. Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in the place that did not know democracy.

How did President Dwight D. Eisenhower surpass the New Deal in government involvement in the economy? a. He signed Medicaid and Medicare into law. b. He established the Veterans Administration health care system. c. He established the Head Start preschool program. d. He established the most generous agricultural subsidy programs in the nation's history. e. He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways.

e. He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways.

Who were the "Dixiecrats"? a. Republicans who favored maintaining segregation in the South in support of the principle of states' rights. b. Members of the national press corps who covered the story of Strom Thurmond's breakaway from the Democratic Party. c. Members of the Commission on Civil Rights. d. Southern labor organizers who campaigned against passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. e. Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."

e. Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party."

What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings? a. They were all busy making movies and did not have time to attend the hearings. b. As Republicans, they were insulted that their loyalty was being questioned. c. Ronald Reagan had threatened that they would lose their jobs if they cooperated. d. They were all communists and did want to indict themselves. e. They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.

e. They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment.

The shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution? a. The suburb. b. The Internet. c. Free-trade agreements. d. Fast-food restaurants. e. The college.

a. The suburb.

The impact of the Cold War on American culture was: a. discouraged in the public schools. b. especially evident in the movies. c. limited in scope. d. felt mostly in the cities. e. widely criticized by the news media.

b. especially evident in the movies.

The "Third World": a. encompassed an enormous range of territory, including several tiny western European nations. b. was largely left out of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. c. was an invented term describing developing nations not aligned with either the Soviet Union or United States. d. included many nations newly created out of former European colonies. e. C and D

e. C and D