US History Final, Spring 2022

The Iron Curtain was

• a symbolic divide between communism and not-communism in Europe

• a wall built around Berlin to divide communists and democrats.

• Stalin's industrial plan to increase Soviet military.

• Truman's plan to build atomic bombs.

Eisenhower's plan to stop the spread of communism was called

• democracy

• expansion

• conventional forces

• containment

A military alliance that promised protection from aggressive nations like the Soviet Union

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Warsaw Pact

Increased scientific competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union, with the goal of landing on the moon.

• Arms Race

• Space Race

• Foot Race

• Bomb Race

The first satellite launched into space (and it was launched by the Soviet Union)

• Sputnik

• Laika

• Gagarin

• Apollo 1

______ emphasized that children needed a nuclear family (mother, father, children) and a lot of love and caring in his book.

• Dr. Albert Einstein

• Mr. Michael Harrington

• Dr. Benjamin Spock

• Mr. Jacob Riis

WWII Veterans got home loans, free public college, and zero-interest loans through the

• kindness of business owners.

• G.I. Bill of Rights.

• Federal Emergency Relief Act.

• Great Society Program

In 1960, one reason JFK won the election was

• he looked better on television than Nixon.

• he was better prepared to debate on the radio.

• he campaigned door to door.

• Nixon was embroiled in Watergate.

Mass produced suburban housing that led to a decrease of taxes as people moved out of the inner cities and into these

• Levit-towns

• tenements

• subsidized housing

• skyscrapers

Non-violent protests were popular for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• it made the non-violent protesters look better on TV

• it gained sympathy for the Civil Rights cause

• people were happy to accept Jim Crow in order to stop violent attacks

• they didn't want to support stereotypes that African Americans were violent