11.2 Truman/Eisenhower Domestic Policy

Launched a televised Red Scare during the 1950s

• Nixon
• Robinson
• McCarthy
• Douglas

The creation of NASA and an increase in federal money to improve math and science in schools was a result of

• The Soviet Union launching their satellite, Sputnik
• Mao Zedong leading a communist revolution in China
• North Korea crossing the 38th parallel to invade South Korea
• Senator Joseph McCarthy announcing his list of communists in the government

The era of Joseph McCarthy was marked by what?

• An effort to reduce welfare system and decrease business regulations in the US

• The willingness to provide political asylum for political exiles

• An increase of civil equality in the United States

• Accusations of communist sympathizers infiltrating the

  United States’ Department of State.

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950s?

• Membership in the US Communist Party increased

• it became a derogatory term for baseless accusations that was popularized by the Senator's overbearing performance

• An increase in support for the US senator for calling out Communist infiltrators.

• US diplomats began to express dissenting political viewpoints more freely

Eisenhower created this to help provide military assistance and quick evacuations from major cities.

• National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Subway Defense Act

• National Emergency Management System

What Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson to end public segregation

• Mendez v. California

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Madison v. Marbury

• Roe v. Wade

A movement organized by southern states which shut down the state education systems rather than integrating the schools after Brown v.Board of Education was known as what?

• School Choice Movement

• Massive Resistance Movement

• Segregated School Movement

• The Little Rock Movement

What was the main priority of the House Un-American Activities Committee?

• To prevent the rise of rock and roll which Americans feared corrupted the youth.

• To investigate those thought disloyal and having Communist ties.

• To investigate the need for science and math education.

• To increase the funding for the arms race during the Cold War.

Which of the following was not a social impact of the G.I.BIll?

• Soldiers could educated themselves with grants for college which would create an educated workforce.

• The housing market boomed creating Levittowns.

• Consumer spending grew keeping unemployment low as the economy grew.

• The army was finally desegregated.

The Red Scare of the 1950’s was influenced by all of the following EXCEPT

• the Cuban Missile crisis, which brought on fears of nuclear war.

• the widening powers of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg following their conviction for treason.

• the passage of the Smith Act which made it illegal to support anti-government activities.