8A

The ideas evoked in the Truman Doctrine are most similar to the concepts associated with

Manifest Destiny

Which event did president John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration?

The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik

Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?

They were afraid that if they did not help with recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence

How did the US respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?

Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an aircraft

Under Eisenhower and Dulles, the US developed a nuclear strategy of defense based on

building more conventional and nuclear weapons

The conformity that suburbs represented was

challenged by artists, intellectuals, and rebellious youth

Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?

chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict , but never did

The Truman Document

committed the US to fighting communism anywhere

The ideas expressed in this passage are an example of:

containment

Secretary of State John Foster Dulle's policy of massive retaliation:

declared that any Soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack

What made Elvis such a popular celebrity?

he brought the rhythms and sexually provocative movements of black musicians to white audiences.

The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon:

highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns

Communities like Levittown exemplified

homogenous mass culture

Dulle's statement reflects which broadly embraced assumptions of Americans in the 1950's?

if the expansion of the Soviet Union could be limited, communism would ultimately collapse

During the Eisenhower administration, US-Soviet relations:

improved somewhat after the end of the Korean War and death of Stalin

In 1949, Mao Zedong:

led a successful communist revolution in China

The position of the US in the world after WW II was

more globally engaged militarily and economically

The Marshall Plan:

offered economic assistance to non communist governments

The Taft-Hartley Act:

outlawed the closed shop

The Truman Doctrine reveals American unease with

political instability

The policy of "containment" can be best be described as

preventing the spread of communism worldwide

The "Iron Curtain"

separated the free West from the communist East

Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?

some justices on the Court fevered the outbreak of widespread violence with such a bold ruling

Which statement best describes how the white South reacted to the brown vs board of education decision

some states closed the public schools rather than integrate, and offered white children the choice to opt out of integrated schools

The demographic changes that resulted in the development of housing projects like the one in the image could be described as

suburbanization

After WWII, the only nation that could rival the US was:

the Soviet Union

What did Eisenhower fear?

the Soviets and other communists abroad would use racial conflict in the US to demean America and what is stood for

The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954?

the army

Why did Eisenhower administration embrace the doctrine of "massive retaliation"?

the constant threat of mutually assured destruction under the doctrine made for more cautious diplomacy

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

the idea of peaceful civil disobedience

In his 1960 farewell address, president Eisenhower warned Americas about:

the military-industrial complex

The Berlin Blockade was:

the reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a separate currency in western Berlin's occupied zones

Japan:

was aided by the US in the rebuilding its postwar industrial base to establish a strong economic counter to communism in the Far East

Joseph McCarthy

was an embarrassment to his party by 1954

Ngo Dinh Diem

was backed by the US in his decision to ignore the Geneva Accords' plan for election in Vietnam

The "mob" referred to by Eisenhower represents

white resistance to efforts of desegregation

The "Third World":

B and C