APUSH Exam Review -1950s and Early Cold War
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- Q 1/25Score 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
- Q4In 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
- Q5Which 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
- Q6The 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
- Q7Major 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
- Q8Influential 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
- Q9In 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
- Q10In 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
- Q11Which 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
- Q12A United State response to the successful orbiting of Sputnik in 1957 was toexpand federal aid to educationincrease cooperation with the Soviet Union in space projectswithdraw from arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Unionincrease NATO forces in Europe30s
- Q13The growth of suburbia was vastly accelerated by theFederal Highway Act of 1956Economic Opportunity Act of 1964Taft-Hartley Act of 1947Social Security Act of 193530s
- Q14The primary difference between the United States intervention in Guatemala in 1954 and previous United States interventions in Central America was that the Guatemalan interventioninvolved covert action by the CIAinvolved the cooperation of the Organization of American Statesfavored the Guatemalan Rightwas not authorized by Congress30s
- Q15In this excerpt, Secretary of State George Marshall is identifying the need toinstall democratic governments in the nations of Western Europeprovide economic assistance to struggling European nationsstrengthen European military defensesallow European workers to settle in the United States30s
