1302 History Ch. 29-31
Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that
"books and babies don't mix"
In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as
"homogeneous, postwar Hell"
Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under
$6,900
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by
Buddhists
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over
China
The Equal Employment Opportunities 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
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in
Eastern Europe
Adlai E. Stevenson was
Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956
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
As a result of the Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
In South Vietnam in the early 1960s
Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was
Long Island
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was
Ralph Ellison
The 1946 congressional elections resulted in
Republican control of congress
In the 1964 election
Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South
The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was
Richard Nixon
On June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed
Robert Kennedy
The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
Stalin's quest for world domination
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was
Thomas Dewey
The Tet offensive marked a turning point in public support for the war in Vietnam
True
As the 1948 election approached
Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for
Truman's upset victory
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about
a massive Chinese intervention
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was
a white suburban housewife
Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as
abstract expressionism
At the 1948 Democratic convention, Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey urged his party to
adopt a strong civil rights plank
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes
Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved
averting war through the threat of nuclear force
One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to
avoid losing it to communism
With the end of World War II, Korea
became divided into northern and southern halves
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state
President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act
because he felt it promoted thought control
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
The Cuban missile crisis
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
can veto any major proposal
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by
cold war-related military spending
In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward
consolidation and concentration
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his
decisive character
In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King
declared his willingness to break unjust laws
Alan Freed was a notable
disc jockey
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
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to
enlarge the New Deal
In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by
erecting the Berlin Wall
Senator McCarthy was very effective in
exploiting public fears
The youthful rebels known as the Beats
favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz
Truman fired MacArthur
for insubordination
Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to
gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean
In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty
generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans
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
Richard Nixon:
had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism 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
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation
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
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin
Two decades after 1940
life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by
men with new ideas and fresh thinking
Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for
moderate liberalism
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
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in
peacetime alliances
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the
persistence of poverty
Michael Harrington's book, The Other America, influenced President Johnson to declare war on
poverty
In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy
promised to get the country "moving again"
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe
proved to be meaningless
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower
refused to halt their executions
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 Hiss-Chambers case
resulted in Hiss's being convicted of lying about espionage
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
resulted in massive rioting in the streets
The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually
rhythm and blues
Malcolm X
said blacks should be proud of their African heritage
State Department official George Kennan
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership
significantly increased
The baby boom
started in 1946
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
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?
the Congress of Industrial Organizations
One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to
the Pledge of Allegiance
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors
One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was
the desire to combat godless communism
In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from
the federal government
Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in
the military
In 1948, President Truman desegregated
the military
Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in
the rural south
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was
the sit-in
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in
the state department
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in
the sunbelt
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
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress
By the mid-1950s, most workers
were white collar
Inch'on was the site
where General MacArthur turned the war around with an amphibious landing
During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks
widened
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was
George Marshall
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate
The university of Mississippi
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he
divided the world into forces of good and evil
By the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King had decided to
emphasize the need for economic uplift for the black urban poor
Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from
excessive conformity
The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized
faith, enthusiasm, and joy
In the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater
offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to
order the development of a hydrogen bomb
John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his
personal health
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to
prevent the return of the Depression
Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to
those over age 65