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
