Explore the Eisenhower Era through this focused quiz. Assess your understanding of key events and figures like Nixon's vice-presidential nomination, Eisenhower's leadership style, and the impact of television on political campaigns. Enhance your knowledge of this pivotal period in American history.
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The computer
Magazines like Playboy
Television
Evangelical Protestantism
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Black business
The black churches
Black colleges
Northern philanthropic foundations
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The cold war as a campaign issue
Television
Political advertising
Political appeals targeted at special interest groups
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An agreement to unify and neutralize Korea
A peace treaty that provided for withdrawal of American and Chinese forces from Korea
An American and South Korean military victory
A stalemated armistice and continued division of North and South Korea
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The lynching of Emmett Till
The Little Rock school crisis
The Montgomery bus boycott
The passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act
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The Cold War wound down
Eisenhower publicly attacked him as a threat to the Republican party
McCarthy failed to force the alleged communists out of the federal government
McCarthy attacked the U.S. Army for alleged communist influence
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The displacements of large corporations by smaller entrepreneurial businesses
The growth of "white collar" jobs into a majority that increasingly replaced "blue collar" factory labor
The turn from World War II military and defense industries to civilian production
The replacement of "mass consumer production" by "target marketing" aimed at particular segments of the population
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A continental interstate highway
A system of medical care for the elderly
Intercontinental military bombers and civilian aircraft
Agricultural subsidies for American farmers
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The Supreme Court
Congress
President Eisenhower
The armed forces
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Working in blue-collar factory and service jobs
Raising children and not employed outside of the home
Pursuing training and education to prepare them for the new positions in service and high technology
Agitating for federal child care and other assistance to enable them to assume a larger place in the work force
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Reassurance, sincerity, and optimism
Aggressiveness, boldness, and energy
Political shrewdness, economic knowledge, and hands-on management
Vision, imagination, and moral leadership
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To seek to overturn the Democratic New Deal
To propose major new federal social programs
To turn most New Deal programs over to the states
To trim back some New Deal programs but keep most in place
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To be a swing vote in the democratic party
To fuel the Cold War cries for an end to the soviet union conflict
Because of his extensive experience in new technologies
To satisfy the anticommunist wing of the Republican Party.
For his military background and effusive charm
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Providing economic aid to the democratic Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem
Providing economic aid to the French colonists fighting Ho Chi Minh
Providing aid to Ho Ch Minh in his fight against the French colonists
Sending American bombers to defend the French at Dien Bien Phu
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As a Catholic he would be better able to deal with the Catholic Latin America
The United States should seek nuclear disarmament agreement with the Soviets
The United States had fallen behind the Soviet Union in prestige and power
The Eisenhower administration had failed to work hard enough for desegregation
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The realistic depiction of war and industrial poverty
Angry social criticism of the "American Dream"
Satirical and comic novels by Jewish writers
An optimistic vision of nature and love in the work of American poets and playwrights
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