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Quiz on the Eisenhower Years: Newman ch 27
Quiz on the Eisenhower Years: Newman ch 27
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A #history #APUSH quiz for #grade11 #eleventhgrade to review vocab for #coldwar #Eisenhower.
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1
In the 1950s a new form of dining was:
fast food.
canned food.
electric food.
vegetarian meals.
2
The British, for two hundred years, ruled:
India.
Tibet.
Senegal.
Italy.
3
OPEC was a group of:
Senators who opposed integration.
South American drug cartels.
Rich men who controlled electricity.
countries who exported crude oil.
4
A seamstress began the civil rights movement when she:
sat in the front of a bus.
sat in a taxi.
sat at a lunch counter.
wrote a letter to her congressman.
5
Eisenhower warned the US in a speech of the:
Perils of drug use.
Evils of Socialism.
military-industrial complex.
Dangers of segregation.
6
One cause of the civil rights movement was:
Massive migration to the Sunbelt.
Anti-semitism.
Education for blacks.
Blacks moving to the North in the 1920s.
7
In the 1950s, hotels and banks were mostly:
Small local businesses.
Collectively owned by a town or city.
Owned by families.
Owned by conglomerates.
8
The CIA:
routinely passes out drugs to soldiers.
Has murdered two hundred heads of state.
Has no authority in the US.
Catches bank robbers.
9
The first satellite was:
Apollo in 1969.
Chang-E in 1990.
Mercury in 1961
Sputnik in 1957.
10
The most prominent leader of the civil rights movement was:
a workers' agitator.
a minister.
a farm worker.
A college professor.
11
The leader of Vietnam was known as:
Nguyen That Thanh.
Ho Chi Minh.
Boss Man Thanh.
Enry Nguyen.
12
The spirit of Geneva was:
one of peace and cooperation.
All of these.
the ghost of John Calvin.
An alcoholic beverage known as 'gin'.
13
The Southern Manifesto was in favor of:
Blackification.
Secession.
Integration.
Segregation.
14
Francis Gary Powers:
was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Was the first man in space.
protested for womens' rights by wearing a dress.
was expelled from the Navy for his sexuality.
15
"tricky Dick" was also called:
Nikita Khrushchev.
John Kennedy.
Heroin and cocaine mixed.
Nixon.
16
1950s popular culture was one of:
Dystopia.
Homogeneity.
Heterogeneity.
Heterotopia.
17
In most of the US, integration went:
quickly.
Slowly.
violently.
only when the military was involved.
18
Willie Mae Thornton and Chuck Berry pioneered:
Rock and Roll.
the Oregon Trail.
Ragtime.
Blues.
19
Atomic bombs led to the threat of:
Massive retaliation.
games of Nuclear Football.
rusty old bombs accidentally exploding.
World peace!
20
The civil rights movement was dominated by:
domestic terrorism.
violent protest.
None of the above.
radical Islam.
21
In 1956, trouble blew up over the:
Canal in Nebraska.
Canadian Canal.
Panama Canal.
canal in Egypt.
22
Operation Wetback dealt with:
Immigation from Russia.
Making sure immigrants bathed and took showers.
All immigrants of color.
Immigrants from Mexico.
23
A famous 1954 court case reversed:
Marbury v. Madison.
Obergefell v. Hodges.
Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
24
In 1948, in the Middle East:
Jewish people established a democracy.
Arabs built a new kingdom.
Palestine's independence was assured.
Egypt chose a new king.
25
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worked for:
Womens' Rights.
Civil Rights.
Prison reform.
Fashion reform.
26
The Soviet premier from 1953 to 1964 was:
Leonid Brezhnev.
Yuri Andropov.
Nikita Khrushchev.
Josef Stalin.
27
Farmers had their crop land:
Planted with 'extra' crops for sale.
Covered with wild bears and hogs.
planted with cheese.
'soil-banked'.
28
Beatniks loved:
Whisky and country music
Jazz and poetry.
None of the above.
LSD and nudity
29
The Hungarians:
Staged massive nonviolent protests.
Did math and played the violin in 1959.
Revolted against the Soviets in 1956.
Actually won WWII, but very few people know this.
30
In 1953 the UN and Korean leaders:
Vaccinated all children to prevent malaria.
Killed all their North Korean prisoners.
Released US soldiers who were 'brainwashed'.
Ended fighting in Korea and set a border.
31
India and the Philippine began the massive:
Naked Crusade.
Hairy War.
Sweep of Decolonization.
War on Terror.
32
The novel
Catcher in the Rye:
Talked about a boy and his best friend rafting down a river.
Satirized the military and war.
was about an unpleasant teen boy.
Romanticized being a delinquent.
33
Even low-income readers could afford the new:
private library.
paperback books.
leather-bound novels.
cassette books.
34
If one nation fell to Communism, it was said in the 1950s:
The nearest nation to it would fall next.
The US would invade it to fix this.
Then others would never fall.
Everyone would be happy under Communism.
35
The Lonely Crowd
complained about:
How lonely crowds were.
Said motivation should come from within, not from society.
Drugs and police brutality.
Rock music.