Exam 12: America at Midcentury 1953-1963

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

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

The Paris summit of 1960 was very productive.

Dwight D.Eisenhower was committed to balancing the federal budget.

By 1967,almost ____________________ of the nation's Native Americans were living in relocation cities.

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

Economic growth contributed to political stability.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 set up a mechanism for expediting lawsuits by African Americans who claimed that their voting rights had been abridged.

Examine the impact of television on U.S.society in the 1950s and 1960s.

The black patron who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,Alabama bus to a white patron was

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

Martin Luther King,Jr.

The AFL and the CIO merged in 1955.

The Russian leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis was ____________________.

The book ____________________ sparked a new phase of the feminist movement,articulating the dissatisfactions of many middle-class women.

U.S.religious life in the 1950s was characterized by

"domino theory"

When Hungarian rebels led by Imre Nagy rebelled against the Stalinist regime in 1956,the U.S.