Question 1

How did Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate Richard Nixon conduct his successful attacks on the Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson?

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Question 2

Assess the diplomatic and military policies of John Foster Dulles.Do you think that they were realistic? Why or why not?

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Question 3

Why were women especially affected by the cult of domesticity,as well as the changing economic patterns of the 1950s?

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Question 4

Why was Eisenhower generally successful in avoiding American involvement in any large-scale foreign wars?

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Question 5

What made Eisenhower such a popular and successful president in the 1950s? How would you assess the relative importance of his personality,his policies,and the climate of the times?

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Question 6

How did television affect American religion,sports,and politics in the 1950s?

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Question 7

Why was there such strong popular support for McCarthy's anticommunist crusade in the early 1950s?

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Question 8

What explains the widespread affluence of the 1950s? What was the specific impact of television on American values and lifestyles?

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Question 9

Do you think that you would have liked "Ike" in the 1950s? Why or why not? Which of his personal qualities,domestic programs,and foreign-policy decisions do you find most admirable? For what may he be criticized? Why?

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Question 10

How did American mass production and mass popular culture affect the rest of the world in the 1950s and after?

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Question 11

How did the new American affluence and the Cold War shape American domestic life in the 1950s?

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Question 12

How did American popular culture reflect the affluence of the 1950s? Why did so many contemporary observers see figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe as a threat to American moral values?

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Question 13

Describe President Eisenhower's response to McCarthyism,the civil rights movement,and social-welfare programs of the New Deal.

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Question 14

Compare and contrast Truman's and Eisenhower's foreign policies.What was new about the new look? What illustrates the basic continuity of the containment doctrine?

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Question 15

Eisenhower said he based his domestic policies on the principles of dynamic conservatism.Is this a fair label? What was conservative about his policies? What was dynamic? In what areas,if any,did he depart from this philosophy?

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Question 16

What explains the rise of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s?

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Question 17

Were Senator Joseph McCarthy's unfair and often vicious attacks a reflection of his personal character or a manifestation of the larger American fears and anxieties about communism and social change in the early 1950s?

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Question 18

How was the increasingly open expression of sexuality in popular culture and music a reflection of American affluence? In what ways did overt sexuality and mass production mutually enhance one another?

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Question 19

Do you agree with critics of the time that the 1950s was "an age of conformity"? Why or why not?

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Question 20

In what ways did the Eisenhower administration contribute to the developing American involvement in Vietnam? Why were these decisions made?

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Quiz 37: The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960