Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era
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Chapter 38 questions from American Pageant 12th edition
- 1.Richard Nixon was chosen as the Vice President nominee:
- A.
To be a swing vote in the democratic party
- B.
To fuel the Cold War cries for an end to the soviet union conflict
- C.
Because of his extensive experience in new technologies
- D.
To satisfy the anticommunist wing of the Republican Party.
- E.
For his military background and effusive charm
- 2.Eisenhower presented himself to the country as a strongly partisan Republican President.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Eisenhower initially hesitated to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy because of McCarthy's political popularity and power.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.In the 1952 campaign, the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket made the first really effective use of:
- A.
The cold war as a campaign issue
- B.
Television
- C.
Political advertising
- D.
Political appeals targeted at special interest groups
- 5.As president, Eisenhower enjoyed great popularity by presenting a leadership style of
- A.
Reassurance, sincerity, and optimism
- B.
Aggressiveness, boldness, and energy
- C.
Political shrewdness, economic knowledge, and hands-on management
- D.
Vision, imagination, and moral leadership
- 6.McCarthy lost his power when he attacked alleged communist influence in the U.S. Army
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that blacks should be provided additional educational benefits in order to equalize public education.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Eisenhower used his influence as president to support blacks' push for civil rights in the schools and elsewhere
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Eisenhower endorsed a major growth of military spending on conventional and nuclear forces to counteract the Societ Union in the Cold War.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Eisenhower tried but failed to repeal most of the New Deal economic and social legislation.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.The Korean War ended with
- A.
An agreement to unify and neutralize Korea
- B.
A peace treaty that provided for withdrawal of American and Chinese forces from Korea
- C.
An American and South Korean military victory
- D.
A stalemated armistice and continued division of North and South Korea
- 12.Senator McCarthy's anticommunist crusade finally collapse when:
- A.
The Cold War wound down
- B.
Eisenhower publicly attacked him as a threat to the Republican party
- C.
McCarthy failed to force the alleged communists out of the federal government
- D.
McCarthy attacked the U.S. Army for alleged communist influence
- 13.The precipitating event that made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr the most prominent civil rights leader was
- A.
The lynching of Emmett Till
- B.
The Little Rock school crisis
- C.
The Montgomery bus boycott
- D.
The passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act
- 14.The primary impetus for civil rights within the federal government came from
- A.
The Supreme Court
- B.
Congress
- C.
President Eisenhower
- D.
The armed forces
- 15.In the Hungarian crisis, the United States retreated from Secretary of State Dulles's talk of "rolling back" communism and liberating the "captive people" of Eastern Europe.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Eisenhower sent the first contingent of American troops to Vietnam in 1954 in order to prevent the communist Vietnamese from defeating the French.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.The Suez Crisis was caused by Egyptian President Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.The Soviet Sputnik satellite raised American fears that the Soviet Union had forged ahead of the United States in rocketry, science, and education.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights organization, the SCLC, rested on the institutional foundation of
- A.
Black business
- B.
The black churches
- C.
Black colleges
- D.
Northern philanthropic foundations
- 20.Eisenhower's basic approach to domestic economic policy was
- A.
To seek to overturn the Democratic New Deal
- B.
To propose major new federal social programs
- C.
To turn most New Deal programs over to the states
- D.
To trim back some New Deal programs but keep most in place
- 21.Dispite his fiscal conservatism, Eisenhower actually outdid the New Deal with his massive federal spending on
- A.
A continental interstate highway
- B.
A system of medical care for the elderly
- C.
Intercontinental military bombers and civilian aircraft
- D.
Agricultural subsidies for American farmers
- 22.The United States first became involved in Vietnam by
- A.
Providing economic aid to the democratic Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem
- B.
Providing economic aid to the French colonists fighting Ho Chi Minh
- C.
Providing aid to Ho Ch Minh in his fight against the French colonists
- D.
Sending American bombers to defend the French at Dien Bien Phu
- 23.In the 1950s, Latin America sometimes demonstrated hostility toward the United States for supporting anticommunist dictators and ignoring Latin American interstes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Senator Kennedy was able to successfully neutralize the issue of his Roman Catholicism during the 1960s campaign
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Feminist Betty Friedan's manifesto The Feminine Mystique was aimed primarily at reviving labor militancy among working class women in factories and shops.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 26.Social critics like David Riesman and Daniel Bell attacked the conformity and consumerism that they believed was undermining the older American character and work ethic.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 27.Senator John F. Kennedy's main issue in the campaing of 1960 was that
- A.
As a Catholic he would be better able to deal with the Catholic Latin America
- B.
The United States should seek nuclear disarmament agreement with the Soviets
- C.
The United States had fallen behind the Soviet Union in prestige and power
- D.
The Eisenhower administration had failed to work hard enough for desegregation
- 28.When the 1950s began, a majority of women were
- A.
Working in blue-collar factory and service jobs
- B.
Raising children and not employed outside of the home
- C.
Pursuing training and education to prepare them for the new positions in service and high technology
- D.
Agitating for federal child care and other assistance to enable them to assume a larger place in the work force
- 29.The primary force shaping the new consumerism and popular culture of the 1950s was
- A.
The computer
- B.
Magazines like Playboy
- C.
Television
- D.
Evangelical Protestantism
- 30.One major breakthrough in American literature in the early post World-War II years was
- A.
The realistic depiction of war and industrial poverty
- B.
Angry social criticism of the "American Dream"
- C.
Satirical and comic novels by Jewish writers
- D.
An optimistic vision of nature and love in the work of American poets and playwrights
- 31.A key economic transformation of the 1950s was
- A.
The displacements of large corporations by smaller entrepreneurial businesses
- B.
The growth of "white collar" jobs into a majority that increasingly replaced "blue collar" factory labor
- C.
The turn from World War II military and defense industries to civilian production
- D.
The replacement of "mass consumer production" by "target marketing" aimed at particular segments of the population
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