Quiz #6

The purpose of the G.I. Bill of Rights was designed to do all of the following EXCEPT

• provide mortgages to veterans

• assist in finding jobs to veterans

• pay for higher education for veterans

• give money directly to veterans

The Warsaw Pact and NATO were similar in that they

• were both signed before World War II.

• were both mutual defense pacts.

• were both isolationist organizations.

• were both economic development organizations.

Rosa Parks was arrested because she

• refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

• urged other African Americans to ride the bus.

• quit her job as a maid.

• always sat at the back of the bus.

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

• give money to Western Europe

• redesign the US Marshall program

• help US veterans pay for college

• give money to South America

Martin Luther King, Jr., successfully led the civil rights movement in the 1960s by

• calling for school desegregation.

• demanding proportional representation for African Americans in Congress.

• urging nonviolence while demanding equality.

• advocating a violent revolution against the government.

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court decided

• that schools do not have to meet the 4th Amendment search standard of probable cause.

• that prayer in public schools violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. constitution.

• to uphold the use of affirmative action to achieve racial balance in education.

• to strike down the separate-but-equal doctrine and order an end to segregation in public education.

Governor Orville Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to prevent African American students from entering. In response President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the National Guard to

• remove Communists from government positions.

• help construct the Interstate Highway System.

• enforce a Supreme Court order to desegregate schools.

• suppress violent protests against the Vietnam War.

McCarthyism of the 1950’s can be compared to the Red Scare in the 1920’s in that both

• addressed the issue of increased government bureaucracy after a war.

• escalated tension between the United States and China.

• occurred during times of economic depression.

• jeopardized the rights of individuals suspected of being Communists.

The main purpose of the Berlin airlift was to

• rescue American hostages in Berlin.

• send East German refugees to other country.

• transport necessary supplies to West Berlin.

• evacuate wounded soldiers from West Germany.

De facto segregation is segregation that results from

• inequalities in education.

• habit and custom.

• random chance.

• laws