- President Eisenhower once said "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made" was
Your answer:
appointing Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court.
not denouncing Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism publicly in 1952 and 1953.
appointing John Foster Dulles secretary of state and allowing him to practice "brinksmanship."
giving the CIA a free hand to conduct covert actions to undermine foreign governments it didn't approve of.
accepting Richard Nixon as his running mate and then allowing Nixon to be the administration’s spokesman on foreign affairs issues.
- The Cold War philosophy of John Foster Dulles was
Your answer:
pacifism.
conciliation.
anticommunism.
creeping socialism.
disarmament.
- The "New Look" defense program in the 1950s emphasized
Your answer:
strengthening the army and navy.
new methods of guerrilla warfare learned in Vietnam.
nuclear weapons.
control and reduction of strategic weapons.
clandestine CIA operations.
- Eisenhower's "domino theory" about the successive fall of countries to communism referred to
Your answer:
Central America.
the Middle East.
Central Europe.
Indochina.
southern Africa.
- Eisenhower's greatest crisis in the Middle East began when Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser
Your answer:
nationalized the oil wells in Egypt.
nationalized the foreign-owned Suez Canal.
seized the Aswan Dam.
declared his nation’s independence from France.
invaded Israel.
- The Eisenhower Doctrine declaring that the United States would send military aid and, if necessary, troops to help counter communist thrusts pertained to
Your answer:
the Middle East.
Indochina.
Latin America.
western Europe.
southern Africa.
- Soviet-American relations became strained in 1960 when
Your answer:
a Soviet spy plane was shot down within U.S. borders.
an American spy plane was shot down within Soviet borders.
the Soviets resumed atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.
the United States discovered that Soviet missiles had been installed in Cuba.
the United States resumed atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.
- Which of the following stimuli to consumerism was introduced in the 1950s?
Your answer:
credit cards
installment buying
celebrities' advertising products
mail-order catalogs
discount buyers’ clubs
- The population shift to the Sun Belt increased the political power of
Your answer:
the Democratic party.
the Republican party.
fringe third parties.
migrant workers.
organized labor.
- The child-rearing theories of Dr. Benjamin Spock advocated that
Your answer:
babies be fed on a strict schedule to instill orderly habits.
bottle feeding be used instead of breast feeding because fathers could participate more fully in parenting.
full-time mothers comfort crying babies to instill feelings of security and intimacy.
children should be treated like little adults.
children should be strictly disciplined to prepare them for the realities of modern life.
- Television in the 1950s
Your answer:
helped to demolish old gender and racial stereotypes.
exposed American viewers to the harsh realities of the "other America."
reinforced consumerism and conformity.
decreased the cost of political campaigning while increasing the content level of political discussion.
was still too primitive to have much impact on American politics.
- Martin Luther King's philosophy of civil disobedience incorporated
Your answer:
the spirit of evangelical Christianity's sacrifice and redemption.
the Christian notion of redemption.
nonviolent resistance.
direct action.
all of these
- Federal policies toward Native Americans during the 1950s
Your answer:
called for the end of the reservation system and encouraged Indians to leave reservations.
recognized the importance of Native American culture.
helped maintain tribal life.
gave preferential treatment to Native Americans over other minority groups and elevated their relative economic status.
thwarted agricultural, lumber, and mining interests in their desire for Native American land by establishing the reservation system.
- What was the most significant cause of the increase in federal aid to education and the shift to greater emphasis on basic disciplines in the late 1950s?
Your answer:
the influx of non-English-speaking Hispanics into the United States
alarm over the popularity of the nonconformist Beats on college campuses
a "war on poverty" that was declared when it became apparent that high-school drop-outs were swelling the welfare rolls
the discovery that there were more private schools in the suburbs than public schools in the cities
the launch of Sputnik, which gave Americans reason to fear that they were intellectually and technologically backward
- Many middle-class parents objected to rock-and-roll because
Your answer:
they linked rock-and-roll with sex and violence.
many rock-and-roll singers such as Elvis Presley were avowed communist sympathizers.
they feared that the African-American rhythm-and-blues inspiration for rock-and-roll would lead to integration and intermarriage.
rock-and-roll was linked with a widespread drug culture.
all of these