Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of Dwight Eisenhower.

Accepted Answer

World War II General

Question 2

Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, during the 1952 presidential campaign

Accepted Answer

A)  was an eloquent, sincere appeal that demonstrated Nixon's ethical seriousness. 
B)  demonstrated the new power of television and kept him on the Republican ticket with Dwight Eisenhower. 
C)  demonstrated the limitations of the power of television to save the ethically challenged and maudlin Richard Nixon from being cast into political oblivion. 
D)  led Dwight Eisenhower to tone down Nixon's attacks on Democrats for being soft on communism. 
E)  proved that Nixon had the political skills and leadership to become president if necessary. 
A)  was an eloquent, sincere appeal that demonstrated Nixon's ethical seriousness. 
B)  demonstrated the new power of television and kept him on the Republican ticket with Dwight Eisenhower. 
C)  demonstrated the limitations of the power of television to save the ethically challenged and maudlin Richard Nixon from being cast into political oblivion. 
D)  led Dwight Eisenhower to tone down Nixon's attacks on Democrats for being soft on communism. 
E)  proved that Nixon had the political skills and leadership to become president if necessary.

Question 3

Do you agree with critics of the time that the 1950s was "an age of conformity"? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

I agree with the critics of the time tha

Question 4

The 1955 Geneva Conference

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A)  failed to reach an agreement on the political future of Vietnam. 
B)  made Ngo Dinh Diem president of Vietnam. 
C)  called for the two Vietnams to hold national unification elections within two years. 
D)  created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. 
E)  established a permanent division of Vietnam into a communist North Vietnam and a pro-Western anti-communist South Vietnam. 
A)  failed to reach an agreement on the political future of Vietnam. 
B)  made Ngo Dinh Diem president of Vietnam. 
C)  called for the two Vietnams to hold national unification elections within two years. 
D)  created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. 
E)  established a permanent division of Vietnam into a communist North Vietnam and a pro-Western anti-communist South Vietnam.

Question 5

The Beat Generation can be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT

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A)  they formed the protest culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. 
B)  they promoted interest in bebop jazz and Eastern religious mysticism. 
C)  in founding their own movement, the hippies later rejected many of the Beat notions. 
D)  they embraced sexual liberation. 
E)  their name came from the term "beatnik," meant as a Cold War insult. 
A)  they formed the protest culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. 
B)  they promoted interest in bebop jazz and Eastern religious mysticism. 
C)  in founding their own movement, the hippies later rejected many of the Beat notions. 
D)  they embraced sexual liberation. 
E)  their name came from the term "beatnik," meant as a Cold War insult.

Question 6

In terms of politics, television did all of the following EXCEPT

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A)  threaten the traditional role of political parties. 
B)  apply the standards of show business and commercialism to political messages. 
C)  enable political parties to continue their role of educating and mobilizing the electorate. 
D)  allow politicians to address voters directly. 
E)  encourage reliance on short slogans and sound bites. 
A)  threaten the traditional role of political parties. 
B)  apply the standards of show business and commercialism to political messages. 
C)  enable political parties to continue their role of educating and mobilizing the electorate. 
D)  allow politicians to address voters directly. 
E)  encourage reliance on short slogans and sound bites.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of Marilyn Monroe.

Accepted Answer

Actress who populari

Question 8

Describe the literary flowering of post-World War II America. How did that culture reflect new voices of African Americans, Southerners, and Jews?

Accepted Answer

The literary flowering of post-World War

Question 9

The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt's New Deal was the

Accepted Answer

A)  interstate highway system. 
B)  Grand Coulee dam project. 
C)  urban public subway and light rail project. 
D)  airport construction program. 
E)  public housing system. 
A)  interstate highway system. 
B)  Grand Coulee dam project. 
C)  urban public subway and light rail project. 
D)  airport construction program. 
E)  public housing system.

Question 10

In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957

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A)  Harry Truman condemned the Republicans for allowing a scientific gap to occur. 
B)  the federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science, math, and foreign language education through the National Defense Education Act (NDE
A) . 
C)  the United States spent nearly a decade trying to equal this achievement. 
D)  the Republican party took responsibility for the fact that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets in this area of scientific discovery. 
E)  scientists blamed America's slowness on poor math and science education in the schools. 
A)  Harry Truman condemned the Republicans for allowing a scientific gap to occur. 
B)  the federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science, math, and foreign language education through the National Defense Education Act (NDE
A) . 
C)  the United States spent nearly a decade trying to equal this achievement. 
D)  the Republican party took responsibility for the fact that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets in this area of scientific discovery. 
E)  scientists blamed America's slowness on poor math and science education in the schools.

Question 11

How did American popular culture reflect the affluence of the 1950s? Why did so many contemporary observers see figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe as a threat to American moral values?

Accepted Answer

American popular culture in the 1950s re

Question 12

American and world public opinion turned strongly in favor of the Civil Rights movement when

Accepted Answer

A)  Senator Barry Goldwater came out in favor of the Civil Rights bill. 
B)  Martin Luther King led a successful nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 
C)  J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps on Martin Luther King were exposed. 
D)  Martin Luther King's peaceful demonstrators were viciously attacked in Birmingham. 
E)  Martin Luther King met with President Kennedy at the White House. 
A)  Senator Barry Goldwater came out in favor of the Civil Rights bill. 
B)  Martin Luther King led a successful nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 
C)  J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps on Martin Luther King were exposed. 
D)  Martin Luther King's peaceful demonstrators were viciously attacked in Birmingham. 
E)  Martin Luther King met with President Kennedy at the White House.

Question 13

How were Latin American socialists and communists like Fidel Castro able to charge the United States with hypocrisy in its conduct of foreign policy in the region? Was there some level of legitimacy to the charge of hypocrisy in the conduct of foreign policy toward Latin America by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration? If so, what specific examples support your view? If not, why not?

Accepted Answer

Latin American socialists and communists

Question 14

When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through

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A)  a massive foreign-aid program. 
B)  large-scale government spending programs. 
C)  an income tax cut. 
D)  reducing expenditures on the space program. 
E)  a tighter monetary policy. 
A)  a massive foreign-aid program. 
B)  large-scale government spending programs. 
C)  an income tax cut. 
D)  reducing expenditures on the space program. 
E)  a tighter monetary policy.

Question 15

President Eisenhower's vehemently anti-communist Secretary of State, through most of his two administrations, was

Accepted Answer

A)  John Bricker. 
B)  John Foster Dulles. 
C)  Allen Dulles. 
D)  Dean Acheson. 
E)  George C. Marshall. 
A)  John Bricker. 
B)  John Foster Dulles. 
C)  Allen Dulles. 
D)  Dean Acheson. 
E)  George C. Marshall.

Question 16

The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was

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A)  his age. 
B)  his religion. 
C)  his televised debates with Richard M. Nixon. 
D)  President Eisenhower's heavy loss of popularity in his last two years in office. 
E)  his family. 
A)  his age. 
B)  his religion. 
C)  his televised debates with Richard M. Nixon. 
D)  President Eisenhower's heavy loss of popularity in his last two years in office. 
E)  his family.

Question 17

Swedish writer Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma essentially argued that

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A)  altering racial segregation would create great problems for America's neighborhoods and schools. 
B)  the divisions over race might well lead to a new North-South conflict. 
C)  the Civil Rights movement was bound to overturn segregation. 
D)  the United States would become a more and more racist society. 
E)  America's racial segregation was a hypocritical contradiction of its democratic ideals. 
A)  altering racial segregation would create great problems for America's neighborhoods and schools. 
B)  the divisions over race might well lead to a new North-South conflict. 
C)  the Civil Rights movement was bound to overturn segregation. 
D)  the United States would become a more and more racist society. 
E)  America's racial segregation was a hypocritical contradiction of its democratic ideals.

Question 18

Do you think that President Kennedy promised more as a candidate than he delivered as president? Focus on his domestic reform proposals and be specific. What did he promise, and what did he accomplish?

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As a candidate, President Kennedy promis

Question 19

Was Kennedy's confrontation with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis a brilliant demonstration of firmness without aggressiveness or a dangerous strategy that could easily have resulted in nuclear war?

Accepted Answer

Kennedy's confrontation with Khrushchev

Question 20

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the

Accepted Answer

A)  antiwar movement of the 1960s. 
B)  black power movement of the 1960s. 
C)  ban-the-bomb movement of the 1950s. 
D)  Civil Rights Act of 1957. 
E)  sit-in movement launched by young Southern blacks. 
A)  antiwar movement of the 1960s. 
B)  black power movement of the 1960s. 
C)  ban-the-bomb movement of the 1950s. 
D)  Civil Rights Act of 1957. 
E)  sit-in movement launched by young Southern blacks.

Exam 35: American Zenith

Identify and state the historical significance of Dwight Eisenhower.

Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, during the 1952 presidential campaign

Do you agree with critics of the time that the 1950s was "an age of conformity"? Why or why not?

The 1955 Geneva Conference

The Beat Generation can be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT

In terms of politics, television did all of the following EXCEPT

Identify and state the historical significance of Marilyn Monroe.

Describe the literary flowering of post-World War II America. How did that culture reflect new voices of African Americans, Southerners, and Jews?

The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt's New Deal was the

In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957

How did American popular culture reflect the affluence of the 1950s? Why did so many contemporary observers see figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe as a threat to American moral values?

American and world public opinion turned strongly in favor of the Civil Rights movement when

When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through

President Eisenhower's vehemently anti-communist Secretary of State, through most of his two administrations, was

The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was

Swedish writer Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma essentially argued that

Do you think that President Kennedy promised more as a candidate than he delivered as president? Focus on his domestic reform proposals and be specific. What did he promise, and what did he accomplish?

Was Kennedy's confrontation with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis a brilliant demonstration of firmness without aggressiveness or a dangerous strategy that could easily have resulted in nuclear war?

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the

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