DCAH Chapter 14 Exam

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Eisenhower to Kennedy

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The GI Bill provided all of the following, EXCEPT:
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a. unemployment assistance

b. low-interest loans

c. draft deferments

d. job training

The baby boom primarily resulted from the...?
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a. delay in marriages during World War II

b. economic prosperity of the 1920's

c. counterculture movement of the 1960's

Great Depression of the 1930's

Television helped bring about economic growth in the 1950s through its:
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Financial programs

Children’s programs

Credit cards

Advertisements

Rock and Roll gave the young people of the 1950s...?
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a way to conform with their parents’ expectations

the values they needed to live through the depression and war

a stable and secure cultural role

a new style of music they could call their own

The traditional role of the housewife of the 1950's called for her to:
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Contribute an income to the family

Home school their children

Attend a university to get an education to act as a role model for the children

Support the husband through domestic chores

During the 1950s, Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans...?
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a. lived in a segregated society.

b. faced discrimination in social and work situations.

c. did not enjoy the same personal economic growth as whites.

d. All of the above.

Which of the following scientists made his most valued contribution during the 1950s?
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a. Alexander Fleming

b. Almorth Wright

c. Jonas Salk

d. Edward Jenner

The GI Bill and government tax deductions for mortgages and property taxes contributed and what phenomenon of the 1950s?
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a. the increase in consumer debt

b. the growth of suburbia

c. the increase in urban populations

d. the formation of new colleges

Which government initiative from the 1950's connected roads and major highways for easier access into cities, towns and states during? *

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a. The National Interstate Highway Act

b. The Infrastructure Act

c. The New Deal

d. The Great Society

When the governor of Arkansas and, later, an angry mob of citizens attempted to prevent the court-ordered racial integration of a high school in Little Rock, President Eisenhower responded by...?
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a. ordering the governor to be arrested.

b. negotiating a settlement that delayed local integration for a three-year "cooling-off" period.

c. sending federal troops to uphold the court order.

d. refusing to involve the federal government in what he considered to be strictly a state matter.

In his farewell address in January 1961, Eisenhower warned the American people against...?
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a. the rise of military pacifism.

b. the influence of the military-industrial complex.

c. the risk of creeping socialism.

d. the tendency to hysterical anticommunism.

During the Eisenhower administration, the CIA was authorized to attempt regime change in which of the following countries?
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a. Guatemala

b. Panama

c. Iraq

d. Israel

The Soviets’ 1957 launch of the satellite Sputnik I marked the beginning of...?
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a. the Space Race

b. Improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union

c. the Atomic Age

d. the Arms Race

Which country launched Sputnik I on October 4, 1957?
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a. China

b. The United States

c. The Soviet Union

d. Britain

Which phrase best describes the 1950s U.S. policy of brinkmanship?
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a. Providing economic aid to needy postwar Europeans

b. Offering military aid to democratic governments

c. Establishing peaceful relations with the Soviet Union

d. Using the threat of nuclear war to prevent the spread of communism

What department of the Unites States "aided" Iran in establishing a new government?
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a. DMV

b. CIA

c. NSA

d. WMD

Kennedy defeated Nixon in 1960 by...?
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a. a popular vote margin of fewer than 120,000.

b. just twelve electoral votes.

c. winning the three largest states: New York, California, and Pennsylvania.

d. Calling for a program to land a man on the moon by the end of the century

The 1960 presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated the..?
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a. divisive nature of the war in Vietnam.

b. power of television’s influence in American politics.

c. importance of having a free and independent press.

d. importance of candidates knowing their facts in a debate forum.

Which of the following may have helped John F Kennedy with African American voters in the 1960 election...?
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a. He promised to end school segregation in the South

b. He supported Baker v Carr

c. He promised to appoint African Americans to his cabinet

d. He and his brother worked to release Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after he was arrested during a protest.

Which foreign policy action by President Kennedy was intended to relieve the human suffering of "people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery" as described in the his inaugural address?
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a. authorizing a naval blockade of Cuba

b. negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

c. meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna

d. forming the Peace Corps

The Kennedy administration's defense policy...?
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a. reduced the size of the military-industrial complex.

b. overcame the “missile gap” between the United States and the Soviet Union.

c. restricted the power of the CIA.

d. stressed a “flexible response.”

When the United States discovered in 1962 that the Soviet Union was building underground nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy responded by ordering:
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a. Surgical American air strikes against the Soviet missile sites in Cuba.

b. The installation of American nuclear weapons in Turkey near the border of the Soviet Union.

c. A naval blockade and quarantine of Cuba until the Soviet missiles were removed from the island.

d. An invasion of Cuba by American military forces.

Who was the leader of Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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a. Mariano Rivera

b. Nikita Khrushchev

c. Joseph Cristobal

d. Fidel Castro

How did the United States discover that missiles were being brought into Cuba?
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A. The US noticed increasing amounts of shipments from Cuba into Europe.

B. US spies in Russia intercepted a message

C. Cuban exiles smuggled information into the US

D. Pictures taken from a United Stated U2 spy plane

What was a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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a. A thaw in the Cold War with both sides entering into talks to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

b. A souring of relations between the US and USSR and an acceleration of the arms race.

c. The ending of communist rule in Cuba and the adoption of capitalist policies.

d. The majority U.S. opinion did not approve of Kennedy's handling of the crisis, which provided the motivation for his assassination

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