front 1 All of the following are true about the economic boom in America after World War II except: | back 1 It was an industrial economy. |
front 2 What new technology was crucial to the development of consumerism in the 1950s? | back 2 Television |
front 3 Rock 'n' roll combined which two musical styles? | back 3 Blues and bluegrass |
front 4 Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon gave a nationally televised address in 1952 in response to allegations of what? | back 4 He had accepted illegal donations. |
front 5 What was significant about the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas? | back 5 It abolished racial segregation in public schools. |
front 6 What was the primary reason President Eisenhower backed the Federal Highway Act of 1956? | back 6 He believed the roads were essential to national defense. |
front 7 How did the United States first become involved in Vietnam? | back 7 Providing economic aid to the French colonialists fighting Ho Chi Minh |
front 8 Where did the CIA stage a coup to depose a native leader during the 1950s? | back 8 Iran |
front 9 Why did the planned 1960 summit between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khruschchev collapse? | back 9 An American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. |
front 10 In the 1960 presidential election, what was Senator John Kennedy strongly attacked for? | back 10 His Roman Catholicism |
front 11 What does the title of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man refer to? | back 11 An African American whose supposed supporters are unable to see him as a real man |
front 12 What was the essential purpose of President Kennedy's promise to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s? | back 12 To restore American prestige in the space race damaged by the Soviets' Sputnik |
front 13 Why did American military forces enter Vietnam? | back 13 To prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists |
front 14 When did the Bay of Pigs invasion fail? | back 14 When the anti-Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military |
front 15 When did American and world public opinion turn strongly in favor of the civil rights movement? | back 15 When Martin Luther King's peaceful demonstrators were attacked in Birmingham |