Eisenhower/ Policies

Which event lead to the creation of the NDEA, increasing educational funding in math and science--

• the launch of a Soviet nuclear missile
• the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik
• the passage of the Space Race Act
• the Soviet mission to the moon

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

• Vietnamization 
• Communism
• Domino Theory
• Imperialism

Which of the following were true about American culture in the 1950's?

• The interstate highway system increased automobile purchase and use
• Rock became popular due to the success of Elvis
• Television became popular and TV's became common in people's homes
• All of the above

The United States first became involved in Vietnam by

• providing economic aid to the democratic Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem

• providing economic aid to the French colonialists fighting Ho Chi Minh

• providing aid to Ho Chi Minh in his fight against the french colonialists

• sending American bombers to defend the French at Dien Bien Phu

The precipitating event of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights movement was

• the lynching of Emmet Till

• the Little Rock school crisis

• the Montgomery bus boycott

• the passage of the 1957

Post-war economy of the 1950's was marked by...

• a mild dip in GDP and low consumer spending

• an economic recession due to low employment

• a small rise in GDP and low consumer spending

• a large rise in consumer spending and economic boom

A key economic transformation of the 1950's was

• the movement of many women out of the home into the workplace

• the growth of "white collar" jobs into a majority that increasingly replaced "blue collar" factory labor

• the turn from WWII military and defense industries to civilian production

• the increasing replacement of "mass consumer production" by "target marketing" aimed at particluar segments of the population

Supreme Court case where the court ruled, "separate but equal is inherently unequal."

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Desegregation
• Lau v. Nichols
• Civil Rights Act

In 1957, Soviets launched the first man-made satellite escalating tensions and resulting in a space race with the U.S.

• Sputnik

• Rocky IV

• Iron Curtain

• Satellite Nation

Who emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin’s death?

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Imre Nagy
• Vladimir Ilich Lenin
• Leonid Brezhnev