finally last test this weeeek

The kitchen debates were between:

Khrushchev and Nixon.

The June 1947 United States foreign-policy initiative that envisioned a New Deal for Europe, and pledged billions of dollars to finance European economic recovery was

Marshall Plan

Which long- held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

Philipines

Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a pro-communist government in Poland in 1945?

Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.

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

The Army

Challenges to the mass conformity of the 1950s came from:

The Beats

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

The Military

After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:

The Soviet Union

The shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution?

The suburb

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 the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.

The Freedom Train was:

a traveling exhibition of over 100 historical documents.

Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved:

averting war through the threat of nuclear force

Jackie Robinson:

broke the color barrier in major league baseball.

The Cuban missile crisis:

brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war

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

declared that any communist attack would be countered by a nuclear attack on the Soviets.*

Operation Wetback:

deported illegal aliens found in Mexican- American neighborhoods.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's intense religious perspective led him to:

divide the world into forces of good and evil

During the 1950s, Americans:

married younger and had more children than previous generations.

Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product:

more than doubled, and wages increased.

In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon's Checkers speech:

reflected the growing importance of television in American life.

In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower:

refused to halt their executions

During the 1950s, agricultural production:

rose by 50 percent

All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:

the Cold War promoted the rapid expansion of higher education.

Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:

the U.S. Army

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

years as a leader in Congress

As a leader, Eisenhower:

Could be quietly effective

The United Nations committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was led by

Eleanor Roosevelt

The "Iron Curtain":

Ended in a stalemate