GML Chapter 24
As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of suburban whites lived in communities with non-white populations of less than
1 percent.
A leading voice of the Beats was
Allen Ginsberg.
The name for the small group of poets and writers who railed against mainstream culture, and that included Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, was
Beats.
What was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the "Warren Court" unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
The Cold War began in
Europe.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Geneva summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev; Soviet invasion of Hungary; U-2 incident
What did President Eisenhower call his domestic agenda, which embraced a "mixed economy," in which the government played a major role in planning economic activity, and by which Eisenhower consolidated and legitimized the New Deal?
Modern Republicanism
In the aftermath of Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white rider, a yearlong bus boycott took place in what city?
Montgomery, Alabama
The so-called kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev occurred in
Moscow, Russia.
As families escaped their everyday lives for the "open road," this businessman franchised his business into approximately 700 McDonald's fast-food stands built by 1964.
Ray Kroc
Which does not describe Rosa Parks in the years prior to her December 1, 1955, arrest?
She was a housewife, with no previous experience as a political activist
Which was not part of the new "social contract" between organized labor and management in leading industries during the 1950s?
Unions sponsored "wildcat" strikes in an effort to discipline management.
Which of the following was not a prominent feature of suburban married life during the Fifties?
a growing tendency of husbands and wives to share the roles of breadwinner and homemaker
Regarding the first intercontinental ballistic missile, John F. Kennedy warned that Republicans had allowed this to develop in which the Soviets had achieved technological and military superiority over the United States.
a missile gap
Which of the following was not a significant trend in 1950s America?
a surge of student radicalism on college campuses
Milton Friedman's book Capitalism and Freedom outlined all of the following ideas regarding individual liberty except
an increase in the minimum wage laws.
In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's image
from defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for whom heavy taxation had become a burden.
The 1954 update to the doctrine of containment, announced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that declared a Soviet attack on any American ally would be countered by a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, was called "brinksmanship" by its critics and this by supporters.
massive retaliation
While most Americans saw the alliance of the Defense Department and private industry as a source of jobs and national security, Eisenhower felt it was a threat to democracy, calling this power the
military-industrial complex.
In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine
pledged the United States to defend Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism or Arab nationalism.
One of the key advantages the Soviet Union held over the United States on a global scale was America's continuing issue of
segregation.
The principal organization in the Southwest—the equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—that challenged restrictions on housing and employment, as well as the segregation of Latino students was named
the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
What was the coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists that pressed for desegregation and was formed in 1955, and in whose organizing Martin Luther King Jr., took the lead?
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The National Defense Education Act, which for the first time offered direct federal funding for higher education, was passed into law by Congress in 1957 in response to
the Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik.
All of the following were instrumental in suburban life and the rise of the subdivisions except
the loss of a communal city center.
The baby boom lasted until
the mid-1960s.
Causes of the civil rights revolution included all of the following except
the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.
During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among
the southern black church.
Which of the following did not inform or influence Martin Luther King Jr.'s, 1950s leadership of the civil rights movement?
the writings of Malcolm X, particularly his autobiography
Under this kind of program, cities demolished poor neighborhoods in city centers that occupied potentially valuable real estate; in its place were constructed retail centers and all-white middle-income housing complexes.
urban renewal
