Truman and Eisenhower Years

Multiple Choice

Why did the United States commit military forces to this region at the time shown?

• As part of its containment policy, the United States sent forces to prevent communist North Korea from taking control of the whole Korean Peninsula.

• As part of its containment policy, the United States sent forces to help the nationalist Chinese government from falling to communist North Korea.

• The United States sent forces to help Japan defend itself against an invasion by communist South Korea.

• The United States sent forces to prevent democratic North Korea from falling to communist South Korea.

Multiple Choice

What were the long term goals of the Truman Doctrine?

• to create an "Iron Curtain" between the Soviet Union and the rest of Europe

• to share responsibilities with the rest of Europe for containing communist expansion

• to use the United States military to stop the spread of communism into free countries

• to return America to isolationism

Multiple Choice

After WWII, the US implemented what was known as the Marshall Plan. The purpose of this plan was to:

• Supply West Berlin with much needed supplies despite the Soviets' decision to block access to the city.

• Provide European nations with the money they needed to rebuild after WWII in order to prevent the spread of communist ideas.

• Prevent Communists from taking over countries in Southeast Asia.

• Provide returning US soldiers with jobs, homes, and educational opportunities as they returned home from the war.

Open Ended

Define McCarthyism

Multiple Choice

What impact did the GI Bill of Rights have on American society?

• Increased unemployment

• No Impact

• Lowered Unemployment

• economic growth

Multiple Choice

After feeling frustrated about their exclusion from the GI Bill's benefits, many African Americans would eventually join which of the following movements?

• Prohibition Movement
• Civil Rights Movement
• Labor Rights Movement
• Women's Suffrage Movement

Multiple Choice

What President established Executive order 9981 which integrated the armed forces in 1948

• President Truman

• President John F. Kennedy

• President Eisenhower

• President LBJ

Multiple Choice

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

Multiple Choice

What was the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision on public education in the South?

• Increase in funding for public schools
• Expansion of private education options
• Implementation of standardized testing
• Desegregation and promotion of integration and equality among students of different races.

Multiple Select

"I HAVE TODAY signed into law H.R. 13247, the National Defense Education Act. This Act, which is an emergency undertaking to be terminated after four years, will in that time do much to strengthen our American system of education so that it can meet the broad and increasing demands imposed upon it by considerations of basic national security."

--statement by President Eisenhower, upon signing the National Defense Education Act, September 2, 1958.

Which TWO factors MOST LIKELY spurred the passing of the legislation mentioned above?

• the ending of World War II

• the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

• the successful launch of Sputnik into space

• the increase of consumerism in the United States

• the fear that public education was not as successful as in other countries.