APUSH Chapter 28

The first significant public awareness of computers in the United States came during the

1952 election tabulations.

The first American to be launched into space, in 1961, was

Alan Shepard.

Until the early 1950s, the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was

France

In 1954, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of

Guatemala

The popular "beat" novel On the Road (1957) was written by

Jack Kerouac.

In 1960, the city in the United States with the largest Mexican American population was

Los Angeles.

All of the following researchers made important contributions to the development of antibiotics EXCEPT

Paul Muller.

The United States first successfully launched a missile from a submarine in 1960, with the

Polaris

Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved

a federal highway system.

All of the following were factors in rising poverty rates in inner cities in the 1950s, EXCEPT

a growth of unskilled industrial jobs in these areas.

During the 1950s, the American environmental preservation movement was mobilized by

a proposed dam on the Green River in Echo Park, Utah.

In his 1956 book on corporate America, The Organization Man, William Whyte Jr. contended

a worker's most valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along.

Between 1945 and 1957, the growth of American consumerism was aided by

an 800-percent increase in consumer credit, the development of credit cards, low-payment charge accounts, and revolving charge accounts. (all these are correct)

During the 1950s, the popularity in the United States of suburban living was partly explained by

both the social importance placed on the family, and a desire for racial segregation, along with a desire for larger homes. (all these are correct)

In 1954, the United States Senate voted to

censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct unbecoming a senator."

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.

During the 1950s in the United States, married women who worked outside the home

decreased in number throughout the decade.

Following World War II, American scientists made a critical contribution to the development of penicillin by

developing methods for its mass production and commercial distribution.

In the 1950s, crimes committed by juveniles

did not dramatically increase.

With highways, travel by automobile, truck, and bus was as fast or faster than travel by trains and this contributed to the decline of

downtowns

The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by

ending diplomatic relations.

During the 1950s, television networks

generally sought to convey an idealized image of a homogeneous America.

Following World War II, the American economy

grew, between 1945 and 1975, nearly ten times faster than the population.

In his 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, sociologist David Riesman argued that Americans were

increasingly more likely to be "other-directed."

The rapid rise in the popularity of rock music was partly due to

innovations in radio programming, innovations in television programming, the success of American Bandstand, and jukeboxes. (all these are correct)

The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to

land men on the moon.

The Soviet Union's announcement in 1960 that it had shot down an American U-2 spy plane

led Soviet Premier Khrushchev to withdraw his invitation to Eisenhower to visit Moscow.

Rural America

lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone.

During the 1950s, the general economic conditions of the United States included

low unemployment.

As part of his economic agenda, President Dwight Eisenhower

lowered federal support for farm prices.

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956

marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.

During the 1950s, the American Federation of Labor in the United States

merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock's best-selling Baby and Child Care contended that

mothers should subordinate their physical and emotional needs to those of their children.

In 1954, the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of

polio

Michael Harrington's 1962 book, The Other America, focused on the problems of

poverty.

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth rate in the United States

reversed a long pattern of decline.

Like many early white rock musicians, Elvis Presley drew heavily from black traditions in

rhythm and blues.

All the following statements regarding the use of DDT are true EXCEPT that

scientists during WWII knew the pesticide had a long-term toxic effect on humans and animals.

In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with the actions of

southern whites.

In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of

the "military-industrial complex."

Between 1945 and 1959, U.S. policy in the Middle East saw

the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power.

During the 1950s, the region of the United States that experienced the most dramatic change as a result of economic growth was

the West.

The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated

the army.

Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included

the events of World War II, the growth of the urban middle class, the rapid spread of television, and Cold War politics. (all fo these are correct)

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that

the federal government largely kept big business sponsorship out of television advertising.

During the 1950s, the U.S. government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

the long-range delivery of weapons.

All of the following statements regarding poverty in America between 1950 and 1960 are true EXCEPT that

the percentage of the population living in poverty rose during the decade.

In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required

the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders.

In the early twentieth century, the vaccine that raised the most safety concerns in the United States was for the prevention of

tuberculosis

Under John Foster Dulles's policy of "massive retaliation," announced in 1954, the United States would

use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.

The correct chronological order for developments in electronic technology, from earliest to latest, is

vacuum tube, transistor, integrated circuit.