Question 1

How did the Cold War shape ideals about family life in America, especially the lives of white women?

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Question 2

What effect did the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s have on American society?

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Question 3

How did the United States react to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957?

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A)   It cut funding for education and diverted it to the military.
B)   It passed legislation providing support for students in math, foreign languages, science, and technology.
C)   It initiated covert plans for the CIA to infiltrate the Soviet missile agency and steal its technology.
D)   It initiated a plan for a satellite defense system to protect the United States and Western Europe from new Soviet weapons.

Question 4

Which new civil rights organization chose Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader in January of 1957?

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A)   The Black Panthers
B)   The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCL
C)  
C)   The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 
D)   The Congress of Racial Equality (COR
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Question 5

Which elements of the kitchen debate indicated a slight thaw in the Cold War? Which elements indicated that the war was ongoing?

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Question 6

In the 1950s, most employed American women worked in

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A)   a variety of professional positions.
B)   clerical, service, and domestic jobs.
C)   production-line jobs in heavy industry.
D)   various administrative occupations in higher education.

Question 7

The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 can be characterized as

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A)   symbolic.
B)   regressive.
C)   ground-breaking.
D)   aggressive.

Question 8

The three-part program for compensating, "terminating," and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration's commitment to

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A)   expanding the size and scope of the federal government.
B)   strengthening tribal governments and preserving Indian culture.
C)   encouraging Native American militancy.
D)   limiting the scope of federal government activity.

Question 9

What was the key to President Eisenhower's New Look in foreign policy?

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A)   A conventional army three times the size of the Soviet army
B)   A smaller conventional army bolstered by strength in airpower and nuclear weapons
C)   The dismantling of Truman's containment policies
D)   A commitment to raise arms against all nations unfriendly to Western capitalism

Question 10

What caused the smog that plagued Los Angeles in the 1950s?

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A)   Sprawling urban and suburban settlements without efficient public transportation
B)   Massive industrial growth combined with limited population
C)   A huge electric power project that required diversion of the city's waterways and the cutting of its trees
D)   The inefficiency of the diesel-powered buses and trains that made up the city's extensive public transportation system

Question 11

What factors accounted for the tremendous surge of consumerism in the United States in the 1950s?

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Question 12

Match the term with the definition.
-1954 Supreme Court decision that found that the systematic exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

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A)  baby boom
B)  Brown v. Board of Education
C)  Cuban revolution
D)  domino theory
E)  Eisenhower DoctrineF) Hernandez v. TexasG) Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956H) military-industrial complexI) Montgomery bus boycottJ) mutually assured destruction (MA
D)  K) rock and rollL) Sun Belt

Question 13

What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?

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A)   He charged that President Eisenhower was a Communist.
B)   He insisted that thousands of federal employees were disloyal to the United States.
C)   He announced that Communists in the Republican party outnumbered those in the Democratic party.
D)   He conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists.

Question 14

Who wrote the best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female?

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A)   William H. Whyte Jr.
B)   Alfred Kinsey
C)   Vance Packard
D)   Allen Ginsberg

Question 15

In the context of President Eisenhower's policy toward Native Americans, termination meant

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A)   stopping all forms of discrimination against American Indians.
B)   stripping Native Americans of their U.S. citizenship.
C)   ending the federal government's special relationship with the Indians by transferring jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments.
D)   removing the funding limits Congress had placed on federal aid to Native Americans and increasing spending to provide hospitals and schools on reservations.

Question 16

Why did the Montgomery, Alabama, police arrest Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955?

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A)   She would not sit in the black section of the city bus.
B)   She refused give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
C)   She was unwilling to leave the bus and board it again through the rear door.
D)   She was distributing flyers challenging the city's segregation ordinances.

Question 17

What was President Eisenhower's most important and far-reaching domestic initiative?

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A)   The establishment of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
B)   The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
C)   Funding for a huge increase in Social Security benefits
D)   The most progressive civil rights bill since Reconstruction

Question 18

Evaluate the Eisenhower administration's nuclear arms policy. Did that policy ease or accelerate the nuclear arms race?

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Question 19

What was the purpose of the Eisenhower Doctrine?

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A)   To aid any Middle Eastern nation requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international communism
B)   To assume the obligation to monitor human rights violations in Latin America and address them with diplomatic and military solutions, if necessary
C)   To protect and defend the state of Israel from any threats mounted by Arab or Islamist terrorists
D)   To promote democracy and capitalism around the world through art, literature, music, and other cultural media

Question 20

What was one unintended consequence of the federal government's program to relocate Native Americans?

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A)   A militant pan-Indian movement emerged two decades later.
B)   Almost all Native Americans permanently moved from reservations to cities.
C)   Native Americans migrated to the locations that had been World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans.
D)   Native Americans experienced unprecedented financial prosperity.

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What was the key to President Eisenhower's New Look in foreign policy?

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How did the United States react to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957?

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What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?

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Which new civil rights organization chose Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader in January of 1957?

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Match the term with the definition. -1954 Supreme Court decision that found that the systematic exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

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What factors accounted for the tremendous surge of consumerism in the United States in the 1950s?

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