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In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:
generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans
Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:
genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society
President Johnson's first priority on the domestic front was to:
get Kennedy's legislative program through Congress
With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:
give up their jobs to returning veterans
The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:
government guarantee of full employment
Richard Nixon:
had a reputation for hard-line anti-communism and rough campaign tactics
During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:
he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"
The purpose of Kennedy's proposed tax cut was to:
help the economy by stimulating consumer spending
Ultimately, the Beats:
helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
his brother Robert
Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:
his elegant and inspiring rhetoric
In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:
homogeneous
Dulles's policy of "roll back" involved:
liberating people under Communist rule
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:
men with new ideas and fresh thinking
Dwight Eisenhower considered himself a:
moderate Republican
Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:
new construction of mass public transportation
Blacks who moved to northern cities found:
new problems and forms of exploitation
Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:
occurred in large cities
During the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater:
offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies
The Civil Rights Act of 1964:
outlawed segregation in public facilities
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:
persistence of poverty
John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:
personal health
Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:
poverty
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:
prevent the return of the Depression
During the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:
promised to get the country "moving again"
After the war, Americans were most eager to:
purchase
During the fifties, the U.S. marriage rate:
reached an all-time high
Changes in immigration law in 1965:
removed quotas based upon national origin
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:
resulted in massive rioting in the streets
In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:
retained most and even expanded some of them
The music Alan Freed labeled "rock 'n' roll" was actually:
rhythm and blues
Malcolm X:
said blacks should be proud of their African heritage
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
significantly increased
The baby boom:
started in 1941
When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:
stood aside
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:
struck down "separate but equal" in public education
Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
suggestive gyrations on stage
One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:
the Pledge of Allegiance
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
the U.S. Army
All of the following countries were physically damaged during World War II EXCEPT:
the United States
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
the University of Mississippi
All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:
the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen
One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:
the desire to combat "godless" communism
Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:
the elderly
Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:
the military
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
the passage of a large tax cut
Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:
the rural South
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
the sit-in
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
the sunbelt
When the U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia, Eisenhower first:
tried to cover it up
In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within his own party:
ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race
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 suburbs
The result of the 1960 election:
was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states
The Bay of Pigs invasion:
was thoroughly bungled by the CIA
The Tonkin Gulf resolution:
was used by Johnson as a substitute for a declaration of war
Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under:
$7,000
high rates of inflation
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
had an Ivy League education
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
the Department of Homeland Security
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:
Japan
All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT:
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
As a result of the Truman Doctrine:
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble
As the 1948 election approached:
adopt a strong civil rights plank
At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to:
Brooklyn Dodgers
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:
Jack Kerouac's style of writing is commonly grouped into this type of literature:
Beats
In what city did Mayor Connor order police to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?
Birmingham, Alabama
The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:
Buddhists
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
Eastern Europe
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created by the:
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:
Dien Bien Phu
abolishing Social Security
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
Adlai E. Stevenson was:
Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956
Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:
France
All of the following became critical of Johnson's Vietnam policy EXCEPT:
General William Westmoreland
President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:
Great Society
All of the following are true of the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT:
Hubert Humphrey lost because he refused to alter Johnson's Vietnam policies
the federal government
In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from:
the military
In 1948, President Truman desegregated:
the State Department
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:
inevitable
In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:
influence Truman to slow down on civil rights
In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:
peacetime alliances
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:
where General MacArthur turned the war around with an amphibious landing
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Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
Who wrote that he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"?
John Updike
Who is the glorious leader?
Joseph Stalin
In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:
Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers
Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:
Kennedy's public encouragement
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
Long Island, New York
By 1960, which American city had the largest concentration of Mexican Americans?
Los Angeles, California
enlarge the New Deal
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
confidence and self-assuredness
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:
can veto any major proposal
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
because he felt it promoted thought control
President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act:
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:
Ralph Ellison
During the 1964 election:
Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South
On June 6, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed:
Robert Kennedy
exploiting public fears
Senator McCarthy was very effective in:
Kennedy described which country as the "cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia?"
South Vietnam
gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean
Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
State Department official George Kennan:
Republican control of Congress
The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:
Truman's upset victory
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for:
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage
The Hiss-Chambers case:
bring about major changes in boundaries
The Korean War did all of the following EXCEPT:
In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT:
The Price Is Right
order the development of a hydrogen bomb
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:
allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:
China
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:
proved to be meaningless
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:
Stalin's quest for world domination
The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
Alger Hiss
The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:
Thomas Dewey
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:
George Marshall
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:
for insubordination
Truman fired MacArthur:
moderate liberalism
Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:
a massive Chinese intervention
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about:
that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:
temporarily seize those industries
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
the Congress of Industrial Organizations
Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 Strikebreaker"?
Tom Clark
Who was famous for arguing that there were "so many Communists in America"?
became divided into northern and southern halves
With the end of World War II, Korea:
The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:
a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:
a white suburban housewife
Before the Second World War, approximately how many people graduated from college in the United States each year?
about 160,000
One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:
avoid losing it to communism
By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:
belonged to a church
By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:
black power
While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:
black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
Elvis Presley's recordings:
blended a variety of musical styles
The Cuban missile crisis:
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
cold war-related military spending
In his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Martin Luther King:
declared his willingness to break unjust laws
The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:
deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba
Alan Freed was a notable:
disc jockey
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he:
divided the world into forces: those who are Christians and the others
The Tet offensive of early 1968:
dramatically affected public support for Johnson's war policy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965:
dramatically expanded black votes in the South
By the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King had decided to:
emphasize the need for economic uplift for the black urban poor
In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:
erecting the Berlin Wall
The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:
faith, enthusiasm, and joy
All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:
family savings
The youthful rebels known as the Beats:
favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz
