History 9
How did Eisenhower describe his domestic policy of dynamic conservatism?
"conservative when it comes to money, and liberal when it comes to human beings"
What was the role of the Truman Doctrine?
. It committed the United States to help "free peoples" facing pressure from communism.
Which of the following was a result of the Hiss-Chambers case?
Alger Hiss was convicted of lying about espionage.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
American citizens convicted for spying and passing atomic bomb secrets to the USSR
Which of the following statements describes the role State Department official George Kennan played in the onset of the cold war?
He recommended that the United States contain Soviet expansionist tendencies through efforts to undermine the appeal of Soviet communism.
What was the significance of the Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)?
It created a large network of interstate highways, which in turn helped create jobs, tourism opportunities, and economic growth.
What was one way in which the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik was significant?
It led to increased U.S. government funding for science education and defense spending
What happened to the U.S. marriage rate during the fifties?
It reached an all-time high.
What was the Supreme Court's decision in the case Brown v. Board of Education?
It struck down "separate but equal" in public education.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the baby boom in the United States?
It was a postwar trend that reinforced the idea that a woman's place was in the home and helped drive economic growth due the market of goods centered on children.
What was the role of the Marshall Plan?
It was an international economic recovery program that also sought to reduce socialist influence in Europe and reestablish a strong Western Europe rooted in American values.
What was the phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s after the Second World War?
It was the movement of many whites to suburbs in response to the migration of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities in search of better opportunities after the war.
Which of the following reorganized the American defense and intelligence establishment in 1947, creating the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Central Intelligence Agency?
National Security Act
In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in
The State Department.
What was the stance of the Dixiecrats in the 1948 campaign?
They supported states' rights and racial segregation.
What were among the main U.S. foreign policy concerns following the Second World War and why?
With the elimination of German Nazism, the United States and the Soviet Union no longer seemed to share a united goal; the power vacuums in Europe and Asia due to the defeat of the Germans and Japanese left the Americans and Soviets competing for global influence.
What was the international response when North Korea attacked South Korea?
Working with Truman, the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about
a massive Chinese intervention.
Drawing on the assumptions of the "domino theory," Truman believed the Soviet and Communist activities in Greece would
allow for the fall of the other nations in eastern Mediterranean, followed by those in Western Europe, if unchecked.
To what did Winston Churchill compare the boundary between Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe and Western Europe?
an iron curtain
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.
What tactic did Martin Luther King Jr. and the activists who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott follow in their protest?
nonviolent civil disobedience
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in
the U.S. Army.
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing
uniformity
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe were
violated by the Soviet Union.
