Deck 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fulton J.Sheen

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oral Roberts

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Betty Friedan

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marilyn Monroe

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oral Faubus

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dwight Eisenhower

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Joseph McCarthy

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Earl Warren

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ho Chi Minh

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Adlai Stevenson

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Kenneth Galbraith

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Billy Graham

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Foster Dulles

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rosa Parks

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jackie Robinson

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Nixon

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
David Riesman

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Martin Luther King,Jr.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elvis Presley

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
white collar/blue collar

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Saul Bellow

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ralph Ellison

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Josephine Baker

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McCarthyism

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Flannery O'Connor

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"spirit of Camp David"

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"cult of domesticity"

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nikita Khrushchev

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Norman Mailer

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sylvia Plath

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Paul Robeson

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"massive retaliation"

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Updike

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John F.Kennedy

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Baldwin

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sit-ins

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fidel Castro

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
An American Dilemma

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Rocket fever"

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Interstate Highway Act

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Landrum-Griffith Act

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dien Bien Phu

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Army-McCarthy hearings

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Feminine Mystique

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sweatt v.Painter

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Montgomery bus boycott

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Lonely Crowd

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Playboy magazine

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Checkers speech

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Suez crisis

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Brown v.Board of Education

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"televangelists"

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Affluent Society

Question 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Defense Education Act

Question 62

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Twenty-Second amendment

Question 63

After World War II ended,most American women

A) held part-time jobs in relatively poorly paid occupations.
B) cared for their families and did not work outside the home.
C) pressed for full equality in the workplace.
D) worked full time outside the home.
E) pursued college education or formal job training.

Question 64

The impact of mass media on religion was reflected in the rise of religious televangelists like

A) Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
B) Betty Friedan and Josephine Baker.
C) David Riesman and John Kenneth Galbraith.
D) Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson.
E) Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.

Question 65

During the 1952 presidential campaign,Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War.

A) use atomic weapons
B) blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria
C) open negotiations with Mao Zedong
D) order United Nations troops to invade North Korea
E) personally go to Korea

Question 66

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
St.Lawrence seaway

Question 67

Among anticommunists,Senator Joseph R.McCarthy was the

A) most effective.
B) first Republican.
C) only true World War II hero.
D) one who most damaged free speech and fair play.
E) one who organized a national movement.

Question 68

The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower's strongest commitment during his presidency was to

A) social justice.
B) social harmony.
C) party loyalty.
D) racial desegregation.
E) political reform.

Question 69

Which of these were NOT among the aspects of 1950s popular culture that conservatives found troubling?

A) Rock 'n roll music
B) Elvis Presley
C) Marilyn Monroe
D) Playboy magazine
E) Novels such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Question 70

The fundamental criticism directed against the new popular mass media culture in the 1950s,by such social critics as David Riesman and William H.Whyte,Jr.,was that

A) affluence tended to erode Americans' moral character.
B) Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves.
C) the wealth produced by the new mass economy was unevenly distributed.
D) the open sexual displays of figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe were morally dangerous.
E) Americans were becoming too soft to be able to fight the Cold War effectively.

Question 71

The 1963 best-seller The Feminine Mystique

A) is often credited with inspiring the modern women's movement.
B) spoke to working women struggling against being labeled as "unfeminine."
C) appealed to educated women who felt bored by the limitations of the housewife role.
D) None of these
E) All of these

Question 72

In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist attacks,President Eisenhower

A) publicly denounced him only after he attacked General George Marshall.
B) quietly encouraged him to continue his attacks on Democrats.
C) publicly opposed his ruthless tactics but privately enjoyed his personal charm.
D) effectively allowed him to control personnel policy at the State Department.
E) privately supported him but publicly kept his distance.

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sputnik

Question 74

Richard Nixon's Checkers speech,during the 1952 presidential campaign

A) was an eloquent appeal that demonstrated Nixon's ethical seriousness.
B) demonstrated the new power of television and kept him on the Republican ticket.
C) won Nixon enormous support among American animal lovers.
D) led Dwight Eisenhower to tone down Nixon's attacks on Democrats for being soft on Communism.
E) proved that Nixon had the political skills and leadership to become president if necessary.

Question 75

Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the

A) isolationists.
B) liberal Republicans.
C) hard-line anticommunists.
D) moderate Republicans.
E) southern Republicans.

Question 76

In terms of politics,television did all of the following except

A) threaten the traditional role of political parties.
B) apply the standards of show business and commercialism to political messages.
C) enable political parties to continue their role of educating and mobilizing the electorate.
D) allow politicians to address voters directly.
E) encourage reliance on short slogans and sound bites.

Question 77

Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s?

A) Science and technology drove economic growth.
B) There were fewer jobs in the military-related aerospace industry.
C) White collar workers were surpassing blue collar workers in numbers.
D) Labor unions reached a peak and then began to decline.
E) Job opportunities were opening to women in the white collar work force.

Question 78

The vast expansion of employment opportunities for women in the 1950s

A) led to the advent of the "pink collar ghetto" of occupations.
B) created a dual role for women as homemakers and workers.
C) fueled a social revolution that raised questions about gender roles.
D) All of these
E) None of these

Question 79

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
U-2 incident

Question 80

Dwight Eisenhower's greatest asset as president was his

A) vast military experience.
B) willingness to take a partisan stand.
C) commitment to social justice.
D) willingness to involve himself in rough campaigning.
E) enjoyment of the affection and respect of the American people.