Exam 36: American Zenith 1952-1963

What accounts for the public's fascination with John F. Kennedy both while he was president and since his assassination? Do you think that the Kennedy presidency has become more myth than reality in our collective memory? Why or why not?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Rocket fever"

President Eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -U-2 incident

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Montgomery bus boycott

How did television affect American religion, sports, and politics in the 1950s? Were the changes wrought by television to American religion, sports, and religion in the 1950s healthy or unhealthy ones for our values, our democracy, and our popular culture?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Checkers speech

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​European Economic Community (EEC)

How might a play like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman be said to reflect the questions that many social critics were asking about mass American culture in the 1950s?

The impact of mass media on religion was reflected in the rise of religious televangelists like

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Fidel Castro

The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems inherently unequal was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ralph Ellison

In what ways did the Eisenhower administration contribute to the developing American involvement in Vietnam? How did President Kennedy intensify and deepen the American involvement in Vietnam? Why were these decisions made? What were the possible policy alternatives to these decisions about Vietnam?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Suez crisis

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​James Meredith

The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower's strongest commitment during his presidency was to

Were Senator Joseph McCarthy's unsubstantiated and ruinous allegations of communist sympathies and activities against liberals, former and current government officials in the State Department and other government bureaucracies, and even members of the U.S. Army a reflection of his personal character or a manifestation of the larger American fears and anxieties about communism and social change in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

Why did the doctrines of flexible response and guerrilla warfare against communist enemies seem so appealing in the early 1960s? How were those ideas implemented in Vietnam? Where were their most serious flaws? What were the available military alternatives to the Kennedy administration in Vietnam during the early 1960s, and why were they not attempted?