Passage of the National Security Act in 1947 indicated that __________. A) Truman no longer considered the Soviets a serious threat B) the United States would be placed on a permanent state of high alert C) Congress was unwilling to fund Cold War programs D) thousands of dangerous subversives had been found in the government […]
The Truman Doctrine was the first and clearest exercise of the policy of __________. A) massive nuclear retaliation B) anti-colonialism C) containment D) spreading democracy by peaceful means ANSWER Answer: C
Which nation was the principal supplier of funds for the IMF and the World Bank? A) United States B) Britain C) France D) Soviet Union ANSWER Answer: A
While the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 helped both the automobile and construction industries, it hurt __________. A) mass transit systems and older cities B) the trucking industries C) suburban development D) farming communities ANSWER Answer: A
South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem’s __________ helped spark civil war. A) persecution of Vietnamese Catholics B) free trade policies C) refusal to allow land reform D) corruption and repressive policies ANSWER Answer: D
To respond to the fears that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the United States would __________. A) build a supersonic passenger plane B) put a man on the moon C) produce most of its electricity from nuclear power D) […]
How did the place of young people in the culture of the 1950s differ from that of young people in earlier decades? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: population growth; affluence; youth consumption; media and young people; social and cultural anxieties
In spite of Nixon having a better voting record on civil rights, Kennedy got __________ percent of black votes in the 1960 election. A) 50 B) 60 C) 70 D) 80 ANSWER Answer: C
The victory in Brown v. Board of Education was limited by a follow-up 1955 ruling __________. A) accepting the idea of “interposition” as a legal argument B) allowing states “all deliberate speed” by which to comply with the decision C) establishing a “civil rights czar” to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling D) allowing local communities […]
Historians generalize that by 1500 the Native-American peoples of North America were A) racially inferior. B) carelessly exploiting the continent’s natural resources. C) developing essentially similar economies. D) linguistically and culturally diverse. ANSWER D
