APUSH - CH. 37

Question 1

How did the workplace change in the 1950’s?

Answer 1

White collar workers outnumber blue collar workers

Question 2

Describe life for most American women during the late 1940s and early 1950s

Answer 2

Women have more job opportunities, baby boom, cult of domesticity, deal role

Question 3

The impact of mass media on religion was reflected in the rise of religious televangelists. Name some

Answer 3

Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Fulton J. Sheen

Question 4

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 what?

Answer 4

Pack of conformists

Question 5

Why was Richard Nixon selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential mate in 1952?

Answer 5

As a concession to the hardline anticommunists

Question 6

What was Richard Nixon’s Checkers speech, during the 1952 presidential campaign about?

Answer 6

Denying the charges of accepting illegal donations

Question 7

What was Dwight Eisenhower’s greatest asset as president?

Answer 7

Enjoyment of the affection and respect of the American people

Question 8

Among the anticommunists, what was notable about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy?

Answer 8

8.

Question 9

How did Eisenhower react to social issues during his presidency?

Answer 9

Social harmony, flew to Korea to end the war

Question 10

How did Senator Joseph McCarthy first rise to national prominence?

Answer 10

Charging dozens of known communists were working within the state department

Question 11

What finally brought an end to McCarthyism?

Answer 11

He alleged that there were communists in the army

Question 12

How did African-Americans feel about American life after they returned from the war?

Answer 12

Military and restlessness

Question 13

How did African Americans try to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregation they had created?

Answer 13

Sit ins; boycotts; everything except appeals

Question 14

What happened when singer Paul Robeson began to criticize American racial policies in Europe?

Answer 14

State department confiscates his passport

Question 15

How did Southern Governors generally deal with desegregation?

Answer 15

15.

Question 16

How did Eisenhower feel about desegregation in the South?

Answer 16

He didn’t like it but stayed out of it; criticized Truman for establishing fair employment practices commission

Question 17

Explain the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 17

Separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional

Question 18

how would you describe President Dwight Eisenhower ‘s attitude towards racial justice?

Answer 18

We stayed away from it but acted when he had to

Question 19

What was the movement that started the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?

Answer 19

Sit ins

Question 20

How did Pres. Eisenhower define the domestic philosophy of his administration

Answer 20

Dynamic conservatism

Question 21

How did the Eisenhower administration deal with Native American issues?

Answer 21

Wanted to go back to Dawes severalty act of 1887

Question 22

What program of Eisenhower’s administration was equated to the TVA of the New Deal because of its size?

Answer 22

Federal highway act

Question 23

How did Eisenhower feel about the Social Security System created during the New Deal?

Answer 23

Accepted and extended it

Question 24

As the French fortress of Dienbeinphu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh’s communist forces in 1954, how did Pres. Eisenhower respond?

Answer 24

Held back but added w/ money

Question 25

Describe the basic military strategy of Eisenhower’s and Secretary of state John Foster Dulle’s New Look foreign policy in the 1950s

Answer 25

Air power and nuclear weapons

Question 26

in 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued domination by the Soviet Union, how did Eisenhower and the U.S. respond?

Answer 26

They did nothing

Question 27

What was Ho Chi Minh’s vision for Vietnam?

Answer 27

Nationalism

Question 28

What was the recommendation of the 1955 Geneva Conference for Vietnam?

Answer 28

Establish a permanent division

Question 29

What did the American Central Intelligence Agency do in 1953 in the Middle East - and why?

Answer 29

Engineered pro-american political coups for oil

Question 30

What was the U.S. response to the Suez Canal crisis in 1956?

Answer 30

Condemned britain; france as the aggressors

Question 31

During the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency became involve in political coups for what reason?

Answer 31

Oil, fear of SU penetration in to Middle East

Question 32

The 1957 Eisenhower doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to the nations of what region who wanted help to resist communist aggression?

Answer 32

The middle east

Question 33

How did the U.S. react to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957?

Answer 33

National defense education act; NASA; missile gap

Question 34

Why did the Soviets cancel the Paris summit conference, scheduled for 1960?

Answer 34

U-2 Incident

Question 35

By the end of the 1950s, why was Latin Americans angry with the U.S.?

Answer 35

interventions

Question 36

Describe the election of 1960 and the deciding factors in the outcome

Answer 36

televised debates between JFK and Nixon

Question 37

The title of Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man, refers to?

Answer 37

a black man with no support