Review of 5-7-19

Why did Sputnik concern Americans?

• Sputnik showed that the Soviets had surpassed the United States in technical skill.
• Sputnik could spy on the United States.
• Sputnik could launch ICBMs.
• Sputnik proved that the Soviets had a more powerful hydrogen bomb.

What was the international contest between countries seeking a military advantage over the other?

• Arms Race
• Brinkmanship
• CIA
• Open Skies Treaty

Which of the following was a military alliance between western European countries and the United States to protect against the Soviet Union’s growing power and influence?

• MIC
• NAFTA
• NATO
• SEATO

What event led Khrushche to denounce Eisenhower at the Geneva Summit and severely damaged US and USSR relations?

• Invasion of Israel
• Space Race
• Suez Crisis
• U-2 Incident

Who was the Wisconsin senator who accused many people of communism without any proof?

• Dwight Eisenhower
• Joseph McCarthy
• Mao Zedong
• Douglas McArthur

What bill was passed to help soldiers readjust to life after World War II?

• Homebound Act
• The GI Bill
• Patton's Bill
• Executive Order 1065

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was overturned by the ruling in which case?

• Painter v. Board of Education
• Mendez v. Texas
• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education

The Interstate Highway System resulted in

• development of new suburbs further from the city. 
• inner city infrastructure development.
• the deterioration of the military industrial complex.
• increase in railroad travel.

Term for the part of 1950's culture that expected all businessmen to dress similarly

• conformity
• culinary
• conglomerates
• corporal

The reunion of couples after the war and a stable economy led to

• the Baby Boom.
• Truman's reelection.
• the Korean War.
• consumer consumption.