1950's and 1960's
Harry Truman aided the cause of civil rights by
desegregating the armed forces
Which of the following is generally regarded as THE major accomplishment of the Nixon administration?
détente with the Soviet Union and China
From the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s, the duties of the Hays Office involved which of the following?
enforcement of moral standards in motion pictures
The Civil Rights Act of 1957?
established a permanent commission on civil rights with broad investigatory powers.
After campaigning to expand the welfare state, especially in the areas of health care and education, President Kennedy?
failed to obtain most of his major legislative initiatives
Sources of discomfort among youth during the decade of the 1960s included all of the following EXCEPT?
failure of the Johnson administration to face the social and economic problems of the underclass
Critics of McCarthyism in the 1950s stressed the idea that?
fears of subversion can lead to the erosion of constitutional liberties
The "hot line" and the nuclear test ban treaty were attempts to?
force the Soviet Union to remove its missiles from Cuba
The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among?
gay Americans
What action did President Eisenhower take to bring about school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas?
he placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal command to carry out the desegregation plan
the main economic problem faced by President Truman in his first term was
inflation
All of the following factors promoted the growth of suburbs EXCEPT?
laws forbidding residential segregation by races
The 1968 Tet Offensive?
led to the belief in the United States that the Vietnam War was unwinnable
The Marshall Plan could be understood as part of an American desire to
make communism less appealing to Europeans creating economic prosperity
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that?
police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.
John Foster Dulles is most closely associated with the?
policy of massive retaliation
Between 1954 and 1961, the Eisenhower administration's policy toward South Vietnam can be characterized as one that?
propped up a corrupt and unpopular, anti-Communist dictatorship in order to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
Of the five major civil rights acts passed during the period 1957-1968, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often regarded as the most far-reaching because?
protection of the right to vote was regarded as a means whereby other basic rights could be secured
the House Un-American Committee was?
responsible for a series of highly publicized hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life
The invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese forces int he spring of 1970?
revived the domestic antiwar movement in the United States and led to large demonstrations
The Eisenhower administration's policy in the Middle East included all of the following EXCEPT?
support for the British and French invasion of the Suez
Which of the following is TRUE of White Citizens' Councils?
supported by white business and professional people, they used their economic power against black civil rights activists
The Democratic national convention of 1968 had a negative impact on the Democratic election campaign because?
television viewers were alienated by fierce fighting outside the convention hall between anti-war demonstrators and Chicago police.
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs included all of the following EXCEPT?
the Alliance for Progress
Which of the following is most consistent with the belief expressed by Stokely Carmichael in his 1966 call for "Black Power"?
to be truly free from white oppression, blacks must control their own economic, political, and social institutions.
The 1950s saw all of the following demographic shifts EXCEPT?
total United States population grew less than in any previous decade of the 20th century
While there was a large gap between what Harry Truman said about civil rights and what he was able to do, his greatest accomplishment was in?
using the prestige and visibility of his office to educate the public and set a moral agenda for future civil rights progress
By 1964 what had become the major thrust of young African-American activists?
voter registration drives in southern states
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
was claimed by President Johnson as legal authorization for the military escalation of the U. S. role in the conflict
The 1956 boycott of the Montgomery bus system?
was instigated by Rosa parks
In 1947, President Truman told Congress that: the United States could not realize its postwar objectives unless we were willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This policy was first implemented in?
Greece and Turkey
The mood of the "Beat Generation" is best reflected in which of the following?
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"
All of these statements about the 1948 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT?
Truman was a heavy favorite to defeat his Republican rival, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York
The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the?
Twenty-fourth Amendment.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. -- This statement by John F. kennedy best supports a foreign policy of?
containment
During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States?
continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost
Which of the following best explains why President Johnson was able to enact a sweeping program of reform legislation in 1965 and 1966?
his landslide election victory had given the Democrats large majorities in Congress.
President Kennedy's legislative successes included all of the following EXCEPT?
implementing a strong civil rights act
Under President Truman, the Department of Justice?
intervened in Supreme Court cases on behalf of organizations seeking to end segregation
Which of the following is true of the Eisenhower administration's termination policy?
it led to the withdrawal of federal benefits from many Indian tribes
Which statement concerning African-Americans' movement for civil rights in the 1960s is accurate?
it stimulated the growth of other reform movements
Which of the following statements about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech in Washington in 1963 is correct?
it turned a political rally into a historic event and recalled the nation to the ideals of justice and equality
All of the following are true regarding television during the 1950s EXCEPT?
its drama was noted for its "earthiness" and extreme violence
By the end of Eisenhower's second term, the first Republican administration since the New Deal had?
left the size and functions of the federal government intact
The "G. I. Bill of Rights" refers to?
legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education, unemployment compensation, loans for home building, and provisions for medical care of veterans
The Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in 1957 immediately led to?
massive federal aid to American higher education
The Commission on Civil Disorders issued a report in 1968 that recommended?
massive spending to improve conditions in the ghettos
Most of Truman's Fair Deal program?
met defeat at the hands of a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats
President Eisenhower opposed Truman's plan for?
national health insurance
The "centerpiece" of Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" was the?
office of Economic Opportunity, with an emphasis on community action
Richard Nixon's approach to China was to?
open to contact for the first time since 1949 by visiting China and beginning diplomatic relations short of full recognition
President Eisenhower described his domestic program as "dynamic conservatism." An important part of this program was?
opposition to public power projects
When James Meredith attempted to attend the University of Mississippi as that institution's first black student, President Kennedy?
ordered federal marshals to protect and defend him and ultimately ordered 5,000 army troops onto the campus.
President Truman contributed to the anti-Communist fear after the Second World War by?
ordering investigations into the loyalty of federal employees
The impeachment charges agreed upon by the House Judiciary Committee accused Nixon of all of the following EXCEPT?
ordering the Watergate burglary
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following EXCEPT?
outlawing literacy tests used to prevent citizens from voting
The Taft-Harley Act of 1947 provided for all of the following EXCEPT?
permitting union contributions to political campaigns
President Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through?
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Which section of the United States Constitution was cited by the South in its challenge to the power of the United States Supreme Court to order desegregation in the public schools?
the Tenth Amendment, which deals with state and federal powers.
All of the following events took place during the Kennedy administration EXCEPT?
the U-2 Incident
the United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because
the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made
The case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) concerned?
the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.
In 1960 which of the following contributed most directly to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's cancellation of a scheduled summit meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union.
All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT?
the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy
During the Kennedy administration up to 1963, tactics employed to end discrimination included all of the following EXCEPT?
the extensive violence by African Americans
All of the following occurred during the presidency of Richard Nixon EXCEPT?
the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese
The legal basis for Truman's order for American air and naval forces to support South Korea was?
the federal Constitution
Both the New Frontier and the Great Society shared the idea that?
the federal government should meet the economic and social needs of the less fortunate.
The Alliance for Progress, proposed by President Kennedy in 1961, can be most accurately called an added dimension of?
the good-neighbor policy
A major cause of the movement to the suburbs in the decades following World War II was?
the growth of the middle class during the post-World War II period
In his farewell address in January 1961, President Eisenhower warned the American people against?
the influence of the military-industrial complex
Homeownership in Levittown in the 1950s was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT?
the migration of African-Americans from the ghettos to the suburbs
Which of the following is an idea of Woodrow Wilson's that came to be an accepted part of United States foreign policy after 1945?
the security of the United States is best preserved through collective security
We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort,housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. This statement?:
was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society.
Supporters of the Warren Court's decisions in the 1960s believed that persons accused of crimes?
were entitled to the full protection of the Bill of Rights
The significance of the civil rights laws of 1957 and 1960 was that they?
were the first civil rights laws passed since Reconstruction
The Truman administration's decision to oppose the invasion of South Korea by North Korea in June, 1950 was made?
without congressional approval
In both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the?
United States fought for years without Congress ever declaring war.
The essential element of the policy of containment was
a commitment to holding communism within the Soviet Union and Easter Europe
All of the following were reasons why a consumer culture appeared in the 1950s EXCEPT?
a considerable drop in the prices of consumer goods
The counter-culture of the 1960s promoted all of the following EXCEPT?:
a new emphasis on religion
At the beginning of the Cold War, U. S. policy toward the Soviet Union tended to follow the ideas of George F. Kennan, that is?
a policy of containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies
The decade of the 1950s in the United States was characterized by which of the following?
a steady rise in the number of women employees in the overall work force
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
abolished the old quota system
President Eisenhower's domestic strategy of modern Republicanism advocated?
acceptance of existing New Deal programs
Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to?
airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year
Silent Spring
argued that the use of DDT was dangerous to the entire food chain
The National Organization for Women was created?
as a civil rights organization for women, working against sex discrimination in employment.
Which of the following was NOT part of Johnson's strategy for fighting the war in Vietnam?
assassination attempts on North Vietnamese leaders, including Ho Chi Minh
The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to?
assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972
President Eisenhower was associated with each of the following EXCEPT?
bringing about the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy by publicly denouncing his irresponsible accusations.
n the 1968 presidential election, George Wallace enjoyed an unusually high degree of support for a third-party candidate because he argued that?
busing of school children for racial integration, expanding government regulations and social programs, and soft treatment of rioters and demonstrators were destroying America.
Nixon Must Surrender Tapes! Supreme Court Rules, 8 to 0! Nixon Pledges Full Compliance! -- Which feature of the U. S. Constitution system is best illustrated by the above headlines?
checks and balances
The removal of General Douglas MacArthur from command of the United States-United Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional principle of?
civilian control of the military
Lyndon Johnson obtained congressional approval for a greater American role in Vietnam by?
claiming that the North Vietnamese had fired on American ships in international waters
The largest public works project during Eisenhower's presidency was?:
construction of the interstate highway system
President Kennedy decided to remove Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam when?
Diem launched attacks on the country's Buddhists
Belief in the Domino Theory would most likely lead a person to support?
American intervention in the war in Vietnam to prevent a Vietcong victory.
The primary reason for the crushing Republican party defeat in 1964 was that?
American voters thought Goldwater's views were too extreme and that he was trigger-happy with nuclear weapons
During the Kennedy-Khrushchev era, America and the Soviet union came close to war over crises in Cuba and?
Berlin