Eisenhower Era Test

Front 1

In the 1952 campaign, of what did the Eisenhower-Nixon make the first really effective use?

Back 1

TV

Front 2

Who was the popular religious evangelical who effectively used the new medium of television?

Back 2

Billy Graham

Front 3

How did Eisenhower present himself to the public?

Back 3

nonpartisan

Front 4

What type of leadership style did Eisenhower present? What effect did this have?

Back 4

reassurance, sincerity, optimism; great popularity

Front 5

Who was the soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning America about the "military-industrial complex?"

Back 5

Eisenhower

Front 6

Who was the eloquent Democratic presidential candidate who was twice stamped by a popular Republican war hero?

Back 6

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Front 7

What is the term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s?

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McCarthyism

Front 8

Why did Eisenhower initially hesitate to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy?

Back 8

because of McCarthy's political popularity and power

Front 9

When did McCarthy lose his power and his anticommunist crusade collapse?

Back 9

McCarthy attacked the US army for alleged communist influence

Front 10

How did the Korean war end?

Back 10

a stalemate armistice and continued division of North and South Korea - 38th parallel

Front 11

How did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v Board of Education, 1954? What did it set off in most parts of Deep South?

Back 11

overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, 1898 which says that separate but equal facilities are ok. Brown won; outlawed segregation in public schools; massive resistance to integration "White Flight"

Front 12

What forced President Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock?

Back 12

governor used national guard to prevent integration; Eisenhower sends federal troops to protect Little Rock 9

Front 13

How did Eisenhower use his influence as president in the civil rights movement?

Back 13

he tried not to

Front 14

Who was the controversial jurist who led to Supreme Court into previously off-limits social and racial issues?

Back 14

Warren

Front 15

Who was the black minister whose 1955 Montgomery bus boycott made him the leader of the civil rights movement?

Back 15

Martin Luther King Jr.

Front 16

What event precipitated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights movement?

Back 16

Montgomery bus boycott

Front 17

What was the primary impetus for civil rights within the federal government?

Back 17

Supreme Court

Front 18

What was the institutional foundation of the Southern Christian Leadership Coalition?

Back 18

black churches

Front 19

How did Eisenhower's basic approach to domestic economic policy?

Back 19

trim back some New Deal programs but keep most in place

Front 20

Despite his fiscal conservatism, how did Eisenhower actually outdo the New Deal in spending?

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put the interstate highway system into place

Front 21

In the Hungarian crisis of 1956, how did the US react to Secretary of State Dulles' talk of "rolling back" communism and liberating the "captive peoples" of Eastern Europe?

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US retreated from that

Front 22

Who was the blustery soviet leader who frequently challenged Eisenhower with both threats and diplomacy?

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Khrushchev

Front 23

What was the doctrine upon which Eisenhower and Dulles based American nuclear policy in the 1950s?

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Massive retaliation

Front 24

In 1954, what was Eisenhower's response to the French in Vietnam?

Back 24

refused to help the French

Front 25

What was an Asian alliance, set up by Secretary Dulles on the mode of NATO, to help support the anticommunist regime in South Vietnam?

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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Front 26

How did the US first become involved in Vietnam?

Back 26

providing economic aid to the French colonialists fighting Ho Chi Minh

Front 27

Who was a vietnamese nationalist and communist whose defeat of the French led to calls for American military intervention in Vietnam?

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Ho Chi Minh

Front 28

Who was the anticommunist leader who set up a pro-American government to block Ho Chi Minh's expected takeover of all Vietnam?

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Front 29

What caused the Suez Crisis?

Back 29

Egyptian president Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal

Front 30

How did President Eisenhower force Britain, France, and Israel to withdraw from their seizure of the Suez Canal in 1956?

Back 30

withholding american oil supplies from the allies

Front 31

In the 1950s where did the major threat to American interests in the Middle East come from?

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revived Arab nationalism and its control of oil

Front 32

In the 1950s what caused Latin Americans to demonstrate hostility toward the US?

Back 32

us support of anticommunist dictators and ignoring Latin American interests

Front 33

What was the Latin American nation where a 1950 communist revolution ousted a US-backed dictator?

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cuba

Front 34

Who was the Latin American revolutionary who because economically and militarily dependent on the soviet union?

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Fidel Castro

Front 35

What was a key economic transformation of the 1950s?

Back 35

growth of "white collar" jobs into a majority that increasingly replaced "blue collar" factory labor

Front 36

What was the major international corporation that symbolized the early computer and "information age?"

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IBM (international business machines)

Front 37

What was a high-flying American spy plane, whose downing in 1960 destroyed a summit and heightened Cold War tensions? What meeting did it undermine?

Back 37

U-2, Paris Summit

Front 38

Who was the red-hunter turned world-traveling diplomat and narrowly missed becoming president in 1960?

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Nixon

Front 39

What was the main issue of Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign of 1960?

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us had fallen behind the Soviet Union in prestige and power

Front 40

what raised this issue? what was extended because of this?

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launching of the soviet sputnik satellite; arms race and nuclear tests

Front 41

How was Senator Kennedy able to deal with the issue of his Roman Catholicism?

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neutralized the issue by talking to Protestant ministers

Front 42

What enabled the Democrats to win a narrow electoral victory in 1960?

Back 42

Kennedy did well in TV debate with Nixon (looked awful) and he was a very good politician

Front 43

What was one major breakthrough in American literature in the early post-World War II years?

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subjects: war, adolescence, sexuality (topics of American literature)

Front 44

What was betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s?

Back 44

The Feminine Mistique

Front 45

Who was the tough Teamster-union boss whose corrupt actions helped lead to passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act?

Back 45

Jimmy Hoffa