Question 1

In 1954,the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of

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A)   Panama.
B)   Colombia.
C)   Guatemala.
D)   Cuba.
E)   Haiti.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

To the "beat" writers,American society in the 1950s was sterile and meaningless.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The popular "beat" novel On the Road (1957) was written by

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A)   Allen Ginsberg.
B)   J.D. Salinger.
C)   Jack Kerouac.
D)   William Burroughs.
E)   Saul Bellow.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 4

By the late 1950s,the Remington Rand Company was the largest American maker of business computers.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 5

In 1955,the labor unions AFL and ________ merged.

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Question 6

During the 1950s,the popularity in the United States of suburban living was partly explained by

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A)   the social importance placed on the family.
B)   a desire for racial segregation.
C)   a desire for larger homes.
D)   both the social importance placed on the family, and a desire for racial segregation.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D) E

Question 7

Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included

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A)   the events of World War II.
B)   the growth of the urban middle class.
C)   the rapid spread of television.
D)   Cold War politics.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union worsened during and after a failed revolution in ________,where Soviet tanks and troops crushed the uprising and restored a pro-Soviet regime.

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Question 9

Who were the leading domestic critics of the America of the 1950s? What were their major criticisms?

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Question 10

Until the early 1950s,the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was

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A)   France.
B)   Taiwan.
C)   Japan.
D)   England.
E)   China.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

The prosperity of the 1950s occurred with relatively low inflation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In 1957,the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock,Arkansas,required

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A)   President Dwight Eisenhower to remove the governor of Arkansas from office.
B)   the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders.
C)   the replacement of many of the school's teachers.
D)   the arrest of hundreds of whites protesting at the school.
E)   the Supreme Court to issue another decision, Brown II.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

The rise of rock musicians such as Elvis Presley is an example of the limited willingness of white audiences at the time to accept black musicians.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Like many early white rock musicians,Elvis Presley drew heavily from black traditions in

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A)   jazz.
B)   rhythm and blues.
C)   country western.
D)   gospel.
E)   folk.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 16

In the 1950s,advertisers played an enormously important role in television programming.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What factors account for the broad-based and rapid progress of science and technology following World War II? Why did this progress not occur sooner?

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The broad-based and rapid progress of sc...

Question 18

The first American to be launched into space,in 1961,was

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A)   Yuri Gagarin.
B)   John Glenn.
C)   Alan Shepard.
D)   Edwin Aldrin.
E)   Neil Armstrong.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 19

In the early twentieth century,the vaccine that raised the most safety concerns in the United States was for the prevention of

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A)   typhoid.
B)   tetanus.
C)   small pox.
D)   rubella.
E)   tuberculosis.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 was essentially successful.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

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