Postwar America

Question 1

In 1956, Eisenhower used federal troops to enforce the desegregation of schools in what state?

Accepted Answer

Arkansas

Question 2

The House Un-American Activities Committee was?

Accepted Answer

held hearings to expose communist influence in American life

Question 3

The problems the U.S. forces faced in Korea included all of the following except

Accepted Answer

inexperienced commanding officer

Question 4

The Hollywood Ten won an Oscar award for creating a documentary about the Communist Party.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

The case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) concerned?

Accepted Answer

constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools

Question 6

Which president was assassinated in 1963?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 7

The Korean War was the first military test of the United Nations forces.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

This is segregation that exits by law.

Accepted Answer

de jure segreagation

Question 9

The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are both in the Security Council of the United Nations.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Which one of the following presidents was a former 5-star general?

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 11

Korea is divided at the 38th parallel.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

The essential element of the policy of containment was?

Accepted Answer

holding communism within the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe.

Question 13

Dr. King objected to the use of this slogan because he believed it provoked violence.

Accepted Answer

Black Power

Question 14

All of the following events took place during the Kennedy administration.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson overturned the idea of "separate but equal."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was the closest the world has come to a full scale nuclear war.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to?

Accepted Answer

airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year

Question 18

The 1956 boycott of the Montgomery bus system?

Accepted Answer

was instigated by the arrest of Rosa parks

Question 19

One of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was _?_.

Accepted Answer

low-interest loans

Question 20

He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947.

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 21

He spoke of his dream during the March on Washington, 1963.

Accepted Answer

Martin L. King Jr.

Question 22

He was executed along with his wife for transferring atomic secrets to a Soviet spy.

Accepted Answer

Julius Rosenberg

Question 23

The population baby boom began in the late 1940s and lasted until the early 1960s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw?

Accepted Answer

literacy tests

Question 25

Who argued the Brown case?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

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