APUSH Unit 10

In the 1948 presidential election,

None

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

Paul Muller

In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

Poland

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

Polaris

Of the following, the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss primarily helped the political career of

Richard Nixon

In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included

Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon

Martin Luther King Jr., was leader of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Joseph McCarthy burst to national prominence by changing that there were known communists in the

State Department

In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas on interest was largely shared by

Winston Churchill

In early 1943, at the Casablanca Conference

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally

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

a growth of unskilled industrial jobs in these areas

In 1947, the United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan due to

a humanitarian concern for European people, a desire to contain communism in Europe, a desire to create strong European markets for American goods

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 mots valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were

accused of passing American secrets to its enemies

President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union

after his first few days in office

In 1949, President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass

aid to public housing

In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

airlifting supplies to West Berlin

All of the following statements regarding the "occupation zones" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT

all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control

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

an 800 percent increase in consumer credit, the development of credit cards, low-payment credit plans, revolving charge accounts

In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

asserted it was the obligation of the United States to support free peoples around the world, assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority, was originally invoked to provide aid to Greece and Turkey

Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt

became increasingly concerned that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements

In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by

beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees

In 1950, the Truman administration responded to the onset of fighting in Korea by

calling on the United Nations to intervene

The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was

criticism of President Truman

In 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

declared than an attack on one member nation was an attack on all

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

declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful

In the 1950s, crimes committed by juveniles

did not significantly increase during the decade

In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for

each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others

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

faced social pressures to quit their jobs, increased in number throughout the decade, accounted for one-third of all married women

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

finding methods for its mass production and commercial distribution

When Joseph McCarthy first leveled charges of communist infiltration in the government, he was a

first-term Republican senator

During the 1950s, the United States government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

for the long-range delivery of weapons

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave housing and education subsides to veterans

During the 1950s, television networks

generally sought to convey an idealized image of America

Following World War II, the American economy

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

In 1946, when Harry Truman became president he

had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs

During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government

he never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist

Beginning in the late 1940s, William Levitt used mass-production techniques to sell

houses

The Supreme Court case of Shelley v Kraemer (1948) dealt a blow to

housing discriminations

A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of American believed atomic power would

in the long run, do more good than harm

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

innovations in radio programming, innovations in television programming, entrepreneurial record promoters

In early 1945, at the Yalta Conference

it was agreed to Soviet union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo Japanese War

The primary purpose of the American Apollo program was to

land men on the moon

By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

little popular support

During the 1950s, rural America

lost ten percent of its population in 1956

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

low unemployment

In 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 1950, the immediate cause of the Korean War was the

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

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

mothers should stay at home with their children

In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by

ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees

The Taft-Harley Act of 1947

permitted the "union shop"

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

polio

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

poverty

During the Korean War, the American invasion at Inchon

prompted President Truman to try and push communists out of North Korea

President Harry Truman responded to the 1946 election results by

proposing a major civil rights bill

In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it

quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority

During the Korean War, the Truman administration faced major strikes in the industries of

rail and steel

The McCarran Internal Security Act

required communist organizations to register with the government

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

The 1946 elections

saw Republicans win control of both houses of Congress

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

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

southern whites

The election of 1952 saw

television play a significant role in the campaign

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

the 1952 election tabulations

In 1950, Julis and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for

the Soviet Union

In the years immediately following WWII, the United States policy toward Asia saw

the Truman administration encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan

All of the following statement regarding Korea are true EXCEPT

the United States left Korea in 1946

The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world

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

the West

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than thirty years

In 1948, the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to

the creation of a unified West Germany

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance

The results of the election of 1952 saw

the end to a long period of democratic dominance

In the 1950s, 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, cold war politics

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT

the federal government regulated the content of both commercials and programs

At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on

the government of Poland, the unification of Germany, war reparations to the Soviet Union

In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was

the movie industry

All of the following statements regarding poverty in America during the 1950s are true EXCEPT

the percentage of the population living in poverty rise 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

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

the social importance placed on family, a desire for racial segregation, a desire for privacy, security, and space for consumer goods

In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action

tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president

In the early 20th century, the vaccine which raised the most safety concerns in the United States was for the prevention of

tuberculosis

The correct chronological order for developments in electronic technology is

vacuum tube, transistor, integrated circuit

Following World War II, the great majority of working American women

wanted to keep working

Between 1947-1950, Marshall Plan aid

was offered to the Soviet Union

During 1946-1947, the American economy

was plagued by serious inflation

After World War II, in Korea, the government of Syngman Rhee

was pro-western

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

were increasingly less likely to judge themselves on the basis of their own values, were increasingly interested in winning approval in their jobs and from their community, were increasingly more likely to be "other-directed"

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

Los Angeles

In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because

MacArthur publicly criticized President Truman's policy in North Korea

The National Security Act of 1947 created the

National Security Council Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense

In 1961, the first American to be launched into space was

Alan Shepard

As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States

In late 1943, at the Teheran Conference

Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months

All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT

Hiss was convicted of espionage

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

Jack Kerouac