Exam 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963

____________________ wrote the 1958 best-seller The Affluent Society.

In 1953, President Eisenhower called in U.S. marines to help maintain an anti-Nasser government in ____________________.

Women did not see a reduction in domestic chores with new machines.

According to the Eisenhower doctrine of "massive ____________________" the threat of U.S. atomic weaponry would hold Communist powers in check.

The head of the Federal Communications Commission called television a "vast wasteland."

In December 1953, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for a review of the U.S. military and strategic powers; this review came to be known as the "____________________".

President Eisenhower proposed a program called ____________________ to allow the United States and the Soviet Union to both use reconnaissance flights to verify disarmament efforts.

Earl Warren was appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953.

No one proposed extending the deficit to promote economic growth.

In the 1955 film ____________________, a racially mixed gang of high school students terrorized teachers and mocked adult authority.

In 1954, historian David Potter called Americans a "people of ____________________."

In The Organization Man, William H. Whyte, Jr. criticized

The Cuban-exile invasion of Castro's Cuba, approved by John F. Kennedy, was first proposed during the Eisenhower presidency.

The president of South Vietnam during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years was

Arizona Republican ____________________ criticized postwar leaders for a weak defense policy in his book Conscience of a Conservative.

The first artificial satellite ever launched into space was the Mercury.

The so-called ____________________ theory claimed that the loss of Southeast Asia to Communist aggression would endanger the security and stability of Europe.

Eisenhower's "New Look" argued that

The canals built by the federal government in the west

The government effort to return illegal Mexican immigrants to Mexico was known as Operation