1950s and Early Cold War
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- Q 1/35Score 0The 1950s picture above shows what some critics believed to be29a representation of the conformity of postwar culturethe cause of decreased agricultural productionthe end of social and economic differentiation in housingtangible evidence of the strength of the nation's largest cities
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- Q1The 1950s picture above shows what some critics believed to bea representation of the conformity of postwar culturethe cause of decreased agricultural productionthe end of social and economic differentiation in housingtangible evidence of the strength of the nation's largest cities30s
- Q2The United States involvement in Vietnam increased dramatically in the 1950s with the withdrawal of theBritishSovietsJapaneseFrench30s
- Q3In an influential 1947 article, diplomat George F. Kennan advocated that the United States shouldfocus its foreign policy on containing the spread of Soviet communisminvade the Soviet Union to establish democracyadopt a more conciliatory policy toward the Soviet Unionconduct covert activities in underdeveloped countries to undermine communist movements30s
- Q4Which of the following was true of women in the five years following the Second World War?Those working outside the home demanded equality in pay and promotion opportunitiesThe contributed to a sudden decline in the birth rate by employing new family planning techniquesLarge numbers left their industrial jobs to make room for returning soldiersYoung women participated in a revolution in manners and morals that challenged the values of their parents30s
- Q5In the 1950s a major factor in President Harry Truman's commitment of American troops to combat North Korean aggression was a desire toconvince Americans that containment was an inefficient way to deal with communist expansionpreserve South Korea's markets for United States exportsovercome the stigma that the Democratic party had "lost" China to communismdirect the focus of American postwar foreign policy away from Europe30s
- Q6In the decade following the Second World War, the Supreme Court decision that had the most widespread consequences concerned which of the following?the rights of minority groupsthe federal government's powers of taxationcongressional reapportionmentimmigration policy30s
- Q7Which of the following is a correct statement about college-level education in the twentieth-century United States?The was a sharp decline in college enrollment in the post-Second World War eraThe GI Bill financed the education of male students during the post-Second World War eraThe baby boomers finished college in large numbers in the 1950sState universities increased scholarship aid during the Depression30s
- Q8The principal reason for the formation of the Dixiecrat party in 1948 was the opposition of dissident Democrats to President Truman'sproposal for civil rights legislationestablishment of the Central Intelligence Agencyremoval of General MacArthur from his military commandcall for an investigation of the loyalty of all federal workers30s
- Q9Major domestic developments in the United States during President Eisenhower's two terms include all of the following EXCEPT:peaking of the post war baby boombeginning of construction of an interstate highway systemexodus of black families from the rural Southdismantling of the New Deal welfare programs30s
- Q10Influential critics of the 1950s such as David Riesman were most concerned with which of the following aspects of life in the United States following the Second World War?The economic responsibilities of being a world superpowerThe threat to the nation from communist subversionAlienation and conformity in modern societyThe spread of political corruption30s
- Q11In negotiations to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy promised toallow Cuban propaganda in Latin Americasend economic aid to Cuba under the Alliance for Progressrefrain from a military invasion of Cubaestablish a quota system for Cuban refugees to the United States30s
- Q12Which of the following is a correct statement about Harry S. Truman?He experienced few problems in the transitition from a wartime to peacetime economy after the Second World WarHe proposed through the Fair Deal to continue and expand the aims of the New DealHe pursued an increasingly conciliatory foreign policy toward the Soviet Union following the Second World WarHe enjoyed consistent support of the public throughout his presidency30s
- Q13In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the dangers ofthe military-industrial complexcommunist subversion of the civil rights movementpresidential candidate Richard M. Nixonthe lack of a national healthcare system30s
- Q14Which of the following statements is correct about the rise of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy to national prominence?He effectively played on the fears of Americans that communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agenciesHe was the first Republican to emphasize the dangers of communism at home and abroadHe used the televised Army-McCarthy hearings to his advantageHis careful investigations led to the conviction of hundreds of active subversives to whom the Truman administration had turned a blind eye30s
- Q15In 1962, which of the following contributed most directly to a crisis in Soviet-American relations over Cuba?The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasionCuban withdrawal from the Organization of American StatesThe discovery of Soviet missile sites in CubaCuban attacks on the United States naval base at Guantanamo30s