chapter 27-28

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

1952 election tabulations.

The National Security Act of 1947

All these answers are correct.

The United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to

All these answers are correct.

As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States.

At the Tehran Conference in late 1943,

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 that

Hiss was convicted of espionage.

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

Jack Kerouac.

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

John glenn

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

In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

Poland.

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 into national prominence by charging 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 of interest was largely shared by

Winston Churchill

In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,

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

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.

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

accounted for only one-third of all married women.

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 for public housing.

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

airlifting supplies to West Berlin.

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

all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control.

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

all these answers are correct

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

all these answers are correct

Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included

all these answers are correct

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

all these are correct

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 1947, the Truman Doctrine

both asserted it was the obligation of the United States to support free peoples around the world, and assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority

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

both the government of Poland and the unification of Germany.

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

calling on the United Nations to intervene.

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

creation of a unified West Germany.

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 that 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.

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

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

In the 1948 presidential election,

early polls had seemed to indicate that Harry Truman would lose.

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

first-term Republican senator

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.

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 1945, 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.

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

housing discrimination.

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

in the long run, do more good than harm.

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

increasing automation.

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

increasingly more likely to be "other-directed."

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

it was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War.

The primary goal 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

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

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.

The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, 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 subordinate their physical and emotional needs to those of their children.

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

none of the choices are right

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

ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees.

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

permitted the "union shop."

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

polaris

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

The American invasion at Inchon during the Korean War

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

President Harry Truman's actions after the 1946 election included

proposing a major civil rights bill.

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

publicly stated that an invasion of China would be a military disaster

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.

In the 1950s, crimes committed by juveniles

resulted in widespread social unrest during the decade.

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 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

The election of 1952 saw

television play a role in the campaign.

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

the Soviet Union

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia led

the Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan.

All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that

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.

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

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

the west

In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action

tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president.

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

tuberculosis

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

vacuum tube, integrated circuit, transistor.

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

wanted to keep working

U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan

was offered to the Soviet Union

During the mid-1940s, the American economy

was plagued by serious inflation.

The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after World War II

was pro-Western.