Exam 28: Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

David Riesman's 1950 study of the shift in the United States from an "inner-directed" society to an "outer-directed" one was called ____________________.

The author of The Organization Man (1956)was William H.Whyte,Jr.

The 1957 Gaither Report advocated

Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade was discredited in televised hearings after he had speculated about subversives in the ____________________.

Social critics of the 1950s portrayed the United States as a society of

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

The ____________________ emerged in South Vietnam to oppose the government of Ngo Dinh Diem.

____ overthrew Fulgencio Batista and became the Communist ruler of Cuba.

In 1961,a U.S.-backed Cuban military force attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro was defeated at

The Termination and Relocation Programs implemented by the federal government resulted in which of the following?

____________________ turned desert into agricultural land.

In 1940,more than 75% of the nation's African Americans lived in the South.

Serious Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 was called the ____________________.

The canals built by the federal government in the west

Describe the changing strategies that labor employed in their dealings with industry during the "affluent" 1950s.

Mexican agricultural workers brought legally into the United States under short-term contracts were called ____________________.

Which country did not join the summit meetings in Geneva,Switzerland in 1955?

The Eisenhower Doctrine can best be described as

The Alliance for Progress was a solid success.

Kennedy ran for president in 1960 with a campaign platform known as the New ____________________.