APUSH Quiz 37 & 38
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- Q1Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the:Liberal RepublicansIsolationistsAnti-communistsSouthern Republicans60s
- Q2During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would _________________________ to help to end the Korean War.Use atomic weaponsPersonally go to KoreaBlockade the China coast and bomb ManchuriaOpen negotiations with Mao Zedong60s
- Q3The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower’s strongest commitment during his presidency was to:Social justiceSocial harmonyPolitical reformParty loyalty60s
- Q4Senator McCarthy first rose to national prominence byCharging that there was extensive Communist influence in Hollywood and elsewhere in the media.Charging that dozens of known Communists were working within the U.S. State Department.Mobilizing Republicans to demand a stronger anticommunist foreign policy in East Asia.Asserting that General George Marshall was part of a Communist conspiracy within the U.S. Army.60s
- Q5Senator McCarthy’s anticommunist crusade ended when he:Alleged that there were communists in the army.Alleged that many college professors were communistsAlleged that there were communists in Hollywood.Began to attack the personal integrity of his critics60s
- Q6Which one of the following is least related to the other three?Orval FaubusMontgomery bus boycottNon-violent direct actionRosa Parks60s
- Q7The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the:Black power movement of the 1960’sAntiwar movement of the 1960’sBan-the bomb movements of the 1950’s“Sit-in” movement launched by southern blacks60s
- Q8The largest public works project during Eisenhower’s presidency was:The polio vaccine program.Construction of the interstate highway system.The Building of Grand Coulee Dam.The Space program60s
- Q9Dwight D. Eisenhower’s democratic opponent in both 1952 and 1956 was:George McGovernAdlai StevensonDean AchesonHubert H. Humphrey60s
- Q10What was the subject of the Landrum-Griffin Act passed by Congress in 1959?Civil RightsLabor UnionsNative American PolicyUS foreign and domestic intelligence60s
- Q11The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War I, was:Ngo Dinh Diem.Nguyen Cao KyDienbienphuHo Chi Mihn60s
- Q12In 1956 the United States condemned _____________________ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal crisis.The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact membersLebanon and SyriaEgypt and JordanBritain and France60s
- Q13During the 1950’s the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both:Iraq and NicaraguaLebanon and El SalvadorEgypt and CubaIran and Guatemala60s
- Q14The Paris summit conference, scheduled for 1960, collapsed because of the:U-2 incidentBay of PigsSuez crisisLaunching of sputnik60s
- Q15What may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was:His religionHis televised debates with Richard M. NixonPresident Eisenhower’s heavy loss of popularity in his last two years in office.His age60s