Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"cult of domesticity"

Accepted Answer

The "cult of domesticity," also known as

Question 2

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 3

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

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary a

Question 4

By the end of the 1950s,Latin American anger toward the United States had intensified because Washington had done all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A)  extend massive aid to Europe and little to Latin America. 
B)  continue to intervene in Latin American affairs. 
C)  support bloody dictators who claimed to be fighting communism. 
D)  provide encouragement to Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba. 
E)  sponsored the CIA-directed coup in Guatemala. 
A)  extend massive aid to Europe and little to Latin America. 
B)  continue to intervene in Latin American affairs. 
C)  support bloody dictators who claimed to be fighting communism. 
D)  provide encouragement to Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba. 
E)  sponsored the CIA-directed coup in Guatemala.

Question 5

During the 1952 presidential campaign,Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War.

Accepted Answer

A)  use atomic weapons 
B)  blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria 
C)  open negotiations with Mao Zedong 
D)  order United Nations troops to invade North Korea 
E)  personally go to Korea 
A)  use atomic weapons 
B)  blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria 
C)  open negotiations with Mao Zedong 
D)  order United Nations troops to invade North Korea 
E)  personally go to Korea

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

Accepted Answer

Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, also known as the

Question 7

What do you think was the most important domestic issue or development of the 1950s? What was the most significant foreign-policy decision or event of the 1950s? Explain your choices.

Accepted Answer

The most important domestic issue or dev

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Rosa Parks

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks, born on February 4, 1913, in

Exam 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"cult of domesticity"

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?

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

By the end of the 1950s,Latin American anger toward the United States had intensified because Washington had done all of the following except

During the 1952 presidential campaign,Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

What do you think was the most important domestic issue or development of the 1950s? What was the most significant foreign-policy decision or event of the 1950s? Explain your choices.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Rosa Parks

New World Beginnings,33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America,1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century,1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775

The Duel for North America,1608-1763

The Road to Revolution,1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism,1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840

Forging the National Economy,1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy,1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861

Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900

America Moves to the City,1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution,1865-1896

Empire and Expansion,1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt,1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

The War to End War,1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939

Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941

America in World War II,1941-1945

The Cold War Begins,1945-1952

The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,1992-2009

The American People Face a New Century

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