Exam 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963

The Russian leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis was ____________________.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proposed to end segregation through

Explore the emergence and growth of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.

During the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy ordered an Air Force attack on Soviet forces in Cuba.

Trace and evaluate the Eisenhower administration's Native American policies.

As a result of the Cuban Missile crisis, a direct telephone hotline was established between Washington D.C. and Moscow.

The Soviet Union provided direct support for Fidel Castro's campaign to overthrow Fulgencio Batista.

John F. Kennedy's foreign policy included all of the following except

Sputnik led to reconsideration of the American educational system.

Phyllis Schlafly's ____________________ became one of the leading manifestos of the Republican Party's right wing.

The Kennedy administration's covert program against Fidel Castro was called ____________________.

Religious groups denounced rock music as a communist plot to corrupt America's youth.

The author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) was

What percentage of the American population identified themselves as Protestant, Jewish, or Catholic?

Leading 1950s child care expert and author _______________________ assigned virtually all child-rearing duties to women.

The Chief Justice who wrote the decision in Brown v. Board of Education was

Discuss the role of religion in American life during the 1950s.

The Southern Manifesto supported school desegregation.

By 1950, more than ____________________ percent of Mexican Americans were living in urban areas.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was reluctant to use the power of the Federal government to address the issue of racial discrimination.