The 1950s Lessons 38, 39, 40

Question 1

Lawyer, Thurgood Marshall was the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy statement in reaction to communist threats in which region?

Accepted Answer

Middle East

Question 3

Who does the Council of Economics Advisors advise?

Accepted Answer

President

Question 4

The Baby Boom was from 1946 - 1964.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Who was the U.S. president for most of the decade of the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 6

Which product was not from the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

typewriter

Question 7

Which of these sports was most popular in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

baseball

Question 8

What law provided housing and education benefits to returning WWII American veteran?

Accepted Answer

GI Bill

Question 9

What did Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists want desegregated?

Accepted Answer

public transportation

Question 10

The Interstate Freeway System became the largest federal public works project in U.S. history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

MLK is associated with violent civil disobedience in the civil rights movement of the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

What was William Levitt's contribution to the Baby Boom era?

Accepted Answer

He massed produced homes in the suburbs

Question 13

The Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1, was of no interest to Eisenhower.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Truman tried to improve civil rights.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, reversed practice of "separate but equal."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What did Jackie Robinson want desegregated?

Accepted Answer

professional sports

Question 17

Elvis Presley became the most popular figure in which area?

Accepted Answer

rock and roll music

Question 18

What is the name of the student led organization in the civil rights movement of the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

SNCC

Question 19

Which of these persons is NOT associated with the American "Baby Boom" era?

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

Question 20

What did Rev. Billy Graham do to help spread his Christian message in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

appear on television

Question 21

Which of these is NOT a good descriptive term for Dwight Eisenhower?

Accepted Answer

Democrat

Question 22

What appeared on U.S. money and in the "Pledge of Allegiance" for the first time during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

God

Question 23

What was the peek year of the Baby Boom?

Accepted Answer

1957

Question 24

Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and formed a Civil Rights organization?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 25

Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk were famous for creating a vaccine against polio.

Accepted Answer

True

The 1950s Lessons 38, 39, 40

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