50s Unit SG
1.	Americans feared that the end of World War II would bring mainly
2.	The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by
3.	On the home front in 1946, postwar America was characterized by
4.	The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was passed to check the growing power of
5.	The growth of organized labor in the post-WWII era was slowed by all of the following except
6.	In an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the Truman administration did all of the following except
7.	The post-World War II prosperity in the United States was most beneficial to
8.	The feminist revolt of the 1960s was sparked by
9.	The long economic boom from World War II to the 1970s was fueled primarily by
10.	Much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on
11.	One sign of the stress that the immediate growth of post-World War II geographic mobility placed on American families was the
12.	Post-World War II American workers made spectacular gains in productivity owing to
13.	Since 1945, population in the United States has grown most in the
14.	Much of the Sunbelt's new prosperity was based on its
15.	All of the following encouraged many Americans to move to the suburbs except
16.	The rapid rise of suburbia in post-WWII America can be attributed to
17.	By 1960, the proportion of Americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately
18.	The continued growth of the suburbs led to
19.	Population distribution after World War II followed a pattern of
20.	The refusal of FHA administrators to grant home loans to blacks resulted in
21.	The huge "baby boom" crested in the __________ and has been declining ever since.
22.	The baby-boom generation will create a major problem in the future by
23.	Harry Truman possessed all of the following personal characteristics except

24.	The United States believed that it was desirable to have the Soviet Union participate in the projected invasion of Japan because
25.	The origins of the Cold War lay in a fundamental disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over postwar arrangements in
26.	Joseph Stalin's postwar security concerns focused primarily on
27.	The responsibility for starting the Cold War rests with the
28.	The earliest and most serious failure of the United Nations involved its inability to
29.	In regard to postwar Germany, the Big Three allies agreed that
30.	When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by
31.	Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of
32.	The postwar policies adopted by the Truman administration toward the Soviet Union were based on the assumption that the Soviet Union was inherently
33.	The immediate concern that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to events in
34.	Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to
35.	Match each postwar American program below with its primary purpose.
___ A. Point Four            1. assist communist-threatened Greece and
___ B. NATO                     Turkey
___ C. Truman Doctrine       2. promote economic recovery of Europe
___ D. Marshall Plan         3. aid underdeveloped nations of Latin
                                America, Asia, and Africa
                             4. resist Soviet military threat
36.	Truman's defenders argue that he exaggerated the Soviet threat because he
37.	President Truman's Marshall Plan called for
38.	The Marshall Plan finally passed Congress largely because it was perceived there as
39.	All of the following objected to President Truman's support for the establishment of the state of Israel except
40.	American membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did all of the following for the country except
41.	The United States' participation in NATO
42.	Postwar Japan

43.	The United States, under the North Atlantic pact,
44.	Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Ze-dong mainly because
45.	In an effort to detect communists within the government, President Harry Truman established the
46.	In 1948, many southern Democrats split from the party because
47.	Match each 1948 presidential candidate below with his political party.
___ A. J. Strom Thurmond       1. Progressive
___ B. Henry Wallace           2. Democratic
___ C. Harry S Truman          3. States' Rights
___ D. Thomas E. Dewey         4. Republican
48.	President Truman's domestic welfare legislative plan was dubbed the
49.	President Truman's action upon hearing of the invasion of South Korea illustrated his commitment to a foreign policy of
50.	NSC-68 called for
51.	The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief
52.	President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur from command of United Nations troops in Korea when
53.	The imperious and insubordinate commander in Korea who was fired by President Truman was General
54.	Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Berlin airlift, (B) Korean War, (C) fall of China.
55.	Arrange the following in chronological order of their appearance: (A) Marshall Plan, (B) Truman Doctrine, (C) NATO.
56.	During Truman's presidency, Congress overrode his veto of the
57.	At the wartime Yalta conference, the Big Three allies
58.	By 1945 the Soviet Union had reason to be suspicious of the United States because the
59.	In its early years, the United Nations was successful in
60.	The National Security Act of 1947 created the
61.	Prospects for a Democratic victory in the 1952 presidential election were poor for all of the following reasons except
62.	Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the

63.	During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would __________ to help to end the Korean War.
64.	In terms of politics, television did all of the following except
65.	Dwight Eisenhower's greatest asset as president was his
66.	Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the
67.	The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower's strongest commitment during his presidency was to
68.	In response to Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower
69.	Senator McCarthy first rose to national prominence by
70.	As a result of Senator McCarthy's crusade against communist subversion in America,
71.	Senator McCarthy's anticommunist crusade ended when he
72.	The new militancy and restlessness among many members of the African-American community after 1945 was generated by
73.	In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregated system that they had created, African-Americans used all of the following methods except
74.	Which one of the following is least related to the other three?
75.	The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because
76.	In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court
77.	The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems "inherently unequal" was
78.	On the subject of racial justice, President Eisenhower
79.	President Dwight Eisenhower's attitude toward racial justice can best be described as
80.	The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the
81.	As president, Dwight Eisenhower supported
82.	President Eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as
83.	Dwight Eisenhower's policies toward Native Americans included
84.	The bracero program between the United States and Mexico involved

85.	During his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower accepted the principle and extended the benefits of
86.	As a part of his "New Look" foreign policy, President Eisenhower
87.	The largest public works project during Eisenhower's presidency was
88.	President Eisenhower's "New Look" foreign policy in the 1950s planned for
89.	In 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued domination by the Soviet Union, the United States under Dwight Eisenhower
90.	The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War I was
91.	The 1955 Geneva Conference
92.	The Cold War seemed to thaw a little when, in 1955, the Soviet Union agreed to
93.	In 1956 the United States condemned __________ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal crisis.
94.	During the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both
95.	The Suez crisis marked the last time in history that the United States could
96.	The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of __________ that wanted help to resist communist aggression.
97.	During his second term, President Eisenhower took a more active personal role than before in governing the country because he
98.	In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957,
99.	Which of the following is least related to the other three?
100.	The Paris summit conference scheduled for 1960 was aborted by the
101.	By the end of the 1950s, Latin American anger toward the United States had intensified because Washington had done all of the following except
102.	What may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was
103.	When Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961,
104.	The affluent life-style developed in America during the 1950s was stimulated mainly by

105.	All of the following were harbingers of the emerging new life-style of leisure and affluence except
106.	Compared to World War I, the literary outpouring from World War II can be best described as
107.	Many of the better known American poets in the post-World War II era
108.	In the 1950s, the key to economic growth rested in
109.	In the 1950s, the work force began to change when
110.	Between 1950 and 1980, the majority of newly created jobs in the clerical and service fields were held by
111.	Sports reflected the population shift toward the West and South
112.	Several critics of the new consumerism of the 1950s charged that the American people
113.	Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) fall of Dienbienphu, (B) marines sent to Lebanon, (C) Suez crisis.
114.	The rapid upsurge in the employment of women after 1945 can be attributed mainly to
115.	In her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan discusses