U.S. History Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy test

______________ is to de facto segregation as ______________ is to de jure segregation.

• segregated elementary schools; separate drinking fountains

• white teachers in black schools; black teachers in white schools

• literacy tests; all black neighborhoods

• all white neighborhoods; miscegenation laws (laws forbidding interracial marriage)

Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for

• Polio

• Measles

• Diphtheria

• Malaria

Orval Faubus, and George Wallace were governors during the early Civil Rights movement, and were best known for their

• support of federal policies which favored integration.

• support of Martin Luther King, Jr.and his works.

• opposition to integration of public facilities, including schools.

• opposition to other governors who supported segregation.

What book did Betty Friedan write that launched the women’s liberation movement?

• Ms. Magazine

• The Battle Between the Sexes

• Women’s Disillusionment

• The Feminine Mystique

During the 1960s, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) were directly involved with

• anti-war protests.

• the sit-in movement.

• the freedom riders.

• the speeches of Malcolm X.

Which action was taken by President Truman in support of civil rights for African

Americans?

• He desegregated the armed services.

• He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.

• He driving the bus that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in

• He abolished poll taxes in federal elections.

A sit-in was an example of what form of protest encouraged by Martin Luther

King, Jr.?

• civil disobedience

• work stoppage

• economic boycott

• armed rebellion

All of the following were reasons for the large increase in Defense spending between 1950 and 1960 EXCEPT

• the Korean conflict

• an inflationary economy in the United States.

• the arms race with the Soviet Union.

• the space race

After World War II, the United States joined with Western European countries to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO members agreed to

• cooperate in the development of more powerful weapons.

• establish a partner organization with the Warsaw Pact.

• protect each other against communist aggression.

• launch an attack on the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

President Truman’s emphasis on Civil Rights in the 1948 election led to

• the formation of the Dixiecrats as a third party.

• the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

• the landslide victory for the Republican Party.

• the defeat of the civil rights movement.