EXAM 5 FINAL

In the crack in the picture window, John Keats described suburban life as:

"Homogeneous, postwar Hell"

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

A U.S./Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950's was:

A white suburban house wife

During the 1984 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

Abolishing Social Security

The result of the 1965 election was:

Apparent voter approval of Eisenhower's "modern Republican"

Dulles policy of "brinkmanship" involved:

Averting war through the threat of nuclear threat

One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:

Avoid losing it to communism

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the U.S.:

Became the first county to recognize the Jewish state

All of the following are true of sputnik EXCEPT that it:

Carried a nuclear war threat

The United Stated experienced a shock in 1949 when communist took over:

China

In the 1950's, teenagers became especially important as:

Consumers

In his letter for Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King:

Declared his willingness to break unjust laws

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

Each have veto power over major UN decisions

In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:

Erecting the Berlin wall

All of the following increased through the post war years EXCEPT:

Family savings

Truman fired MacArthur:

For insubordination

In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:

Generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall

The legislation passed by congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:

Government guarantee of full employment

President Johnson Labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society

The purpose of Kennedy's proposed tax cut was to:

Help the economy by stimulating consumer credit

All of the following are true of the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT:

Hubert Humphrey lost because he refused to alter Johnsons Vietnam policies

In retrospect the cold war was probably:

Inevitable

In South Vietnam in the early 1960's:

Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisors

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

New construction of mass public transportation

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a long time tradition with its involvement in:

Peacetime alliances

John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:

Personal health

By the end of his presidency, Eisenhower was:

Planning an invasion to topple Castro

Michael Harrington's book, The Other America, influenced President Johnson to declare war on:

Poverty

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:

Proved to be meaningless

The 1946 congressional election resulted in:

Republican control of congress

In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision the warren court:

Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

In regards to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

Retained most and even expanded some of them

The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:

Richard Nixon

State Department Official George Kennan:

Said the U.S. 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

All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:

The Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmern

Between 1945 and 1960 in the U.S.:

The gross national product almost doubled

Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

The military

In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned about:

The power of the military-industrial complex

The Eisenhower administration was deeply embarrassed when:

The soviets shot down an American spy plane

The 1948 Presidential Election was probably best remembered for:

Truman's upset victory

In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within its own party:

Ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race

By the 1950's, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

Uniformity

All of the following were sources of Dwight D. Eisenhower's political appeal EXCEPT his:

Years as a leader in congress

All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:

had and Ivy League education

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries, in , president Truman's response was to:

temporally seize those industries