Cold War/1950s/CR Review

The policy designed to resist the spread of Communism was called

• The Marshall Plan

• The Domino Theory

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Arms Race

The "Iron Curtain" speech was a warning by

• Harry S Truman

• Winston Churchill

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

in 1957, the federal government was challenged because of desegregation in

• Little Rock , Arkansas

• Selma, Alabama

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Greensboro, North Carolina

Consumerism, growth of suburbs, growth of the middle class was due:

• WW2 veterans returning home

• women in the workforce

• Baby Boom

• more men in college

The boycott of the Montgomery Bus system began with what event?

• Martin Luther King's assassination

• Harry Truman's desegregation of the armed forces

• Rosa Parks' arrest

• Jackie Robinson's position with major league baseball

The program created to help the economy of western Europe was called:

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Marshall Plan

• The Warsaw Pact

NASA was created in response to

• the blockade of east Berlin

• the creation of the Warsaw Pact

• the launching of Sputnik

• the creation of the hydrogen bomb

The "I have a dream" speech was given at which event?

• The March on Washington

• The Selma March

• The Little Rock crisis

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The person who falsely accused people of being communist was

• Senator Joseph McCarthy

• Harry S Truman

• Gen Douglas MacArthur

• Ethel Rosenberg

The charging of poll taxes is is prohibited by

• 26th Amendment

• 25th Amendment

• 24 Amendment

• 23 Amendment