Deck 11: 1952-1957: Eisenhower and the American Consensus

Question 1

Eisenhower played a mostly passive role as president.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Most of the people who moved to the suburbs in the 1950s were white.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The U.S. population declined in the 1950s.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Eisenhower won a landslide victory in 1952.

Question 5

Eisenhower oversaw the enlargement of the welfare state.

Question 6

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling depended on a strict reading of the Constitution.

Question 7

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which desegregated schools, had the immediate practical effects on segregated schools.

Question 8

During the 1950s, the U.S. population increased by roughly thirty million people.

Question 9

Many, perhaps most, women in the U.S. seem to have embraced the role of housewife in the 1950s.

Question 10

Richard Nixon was ardently anticommunist.

Question 11

What led to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall?

Question 12

How would you characterize Eisenhower's presidential leadership style?

Question 13

Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer, and why was he singled out by Joseph McCarthy?

Question 14

The suburbs grew by what percent during the 1950s?

A) 12
B) 46
C) 78
D) 113

Question 15

There were how many shopping centers in the United States at the end of World War II?

A) 314
B) 4,391
C) 8
D) 10,209

Question 16

In 1954, what was the life expectancy for whites in the United States?

A) 70
B) 74
C) 79
D) 83

Question 17

Levittown was located in what state?

A) New York
B) Connecticut
C) Ohio
D) New Jersey

Question 18

Between 1940 and 1960, the number of women in the workforce increased by what percent?

A) 25
B) 50
C) 100
D) 150

Question 19

Who wrote The Lonely Crowd?

A) David Riesman
B) David Potter
C) William F. Whyte
D) Daniel Boorstin

Question 20

Who was Dwight Eisenhower's running mate in the 1952 presidential election?

A) Richard Nixon
B) Adlai Stevenson
C) William F. Buckley
D) Earl Warren

Question 21

Eisenhower appointed which of the following Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court?

A) John Marshall Harlan
B) Earl Warren
C) Fred Vinson
D) a. and b.

Question 22

What Supreme Court ruling overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine?

A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) Yates v. United States

Question 23

Who led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

A) Malcolm X
B) Rosa Parks
C) Herbert Brownell
D) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 24

The Korean War ended in what year?

A) 1952
B) 1953
C) 1954
D) 1955

Question 25

Who was John Foster Dulles?

A) Secretary of State
B) Vice president under Eisenhower
C) A Beat writer
D) Secretary of Defense

Question 26

Who was William Burroughs?

A) Secretary of State
B) Vice president under Eisenhower
C) A Beat writer
D) Secretary of Defense

Question 27

Who succeeded Stalin as leader of Soviet Russia?

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Josip Broz Tito
D) None of the above

Question 28

Eisenhower oversaw the overthrow of the leader of what Middle Eastern Country?

A) Israel
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Nicaragua

Question 29

Eisenhower oversaw the overthrow of the constitutional government of what Latin American country?

A) Guatemala
B) Honduras
C) Nicaragua
D) All of the above

Question 30

Concern over U.S.-Soviet intervention brought peace to what region in 1956?

A) Poland
B) Germany
C) Bosnia
D) Egypt

Question 31

Who wrote The Organization Man?

A) David Potter
B) David Riesman
C) William F. Whyte
D) Daniel Boorstin

Question 32

Public-school desegregation was first attempted in what state?

A) Alabama
B) Arkansas
C) Georgia
D) Tennessee

Question 33

What country had colonial territories in Vietnam in the 1950s?

A) France
B) Britain
C) The United States
D) All of the above

Question 34

Talk About:
-Betty Friedan

Question 35

Talk About:
-Brown v. Board of Education

Question 36

Talk About:
-Central High School

Question 37

Talk About:
-Dwight Eisenhower

Question 38

Talk About:
-Earl Warren

Question 39

Talk About:
-"fallen domino"

Question 40

Talk About:
-Ho Chi Minh

Question 41

Talk About:
-Interstate Highway Act of 1956

Question 42

Talk About:
-John Foster Dulles

Question 43

Talk About:
-Levittown

Question 44

Talk About:
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 45

Talk About:
-Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 46

Talk About:
-Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 47

Talk About:
-Nikita Khrushchev

Question 48

Talk About:
-Organization of American States

Question 49

Talk About:
-Richard Nixon

Question 50

Talk About:
-Rosa Parks

Question 51

Talk About:
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Question 52

Talk About:
-suburbs

Question 53

Talk About:
-Suez Crisis

Question 54

Discuss the widespread anticommunism in the United States in the decade following World War II. What motivated it? Was it justified? Was it fair or unfair to those who were singled out? Should officials, especially President Eisenhower, have censured McCarthy's activities sooner? Why or why not?

Question 55

How did the role of women in society change from 1940 to 1960? Did World War II have any lasting effect on the range of options available to women? How did the baby boom and the rise of the suburbs affect women both privately and publicly? Was there a tension between the perception and the reality of women's roles in society?