Carr - Unit 11 - Eisenhower Quiz

As the Soviet Union increased their nuclear arms arsenal this increased the threat that...

• The US and USSR would enter into a Cold War

• The US and USSR would destroy each other

• The US and USSR would become allies

• The US and USSR would partner to eliminate nuclear weapons

Eisenhower's policy on a potential nuclear strike by the Soviet Union was called..

• Massive Retaliation

• Strategic Deterrence

• Preemptive Strike

• Mutual Assured Destruction

President Eisenhower was committed to stopping communism in Vietnam. In a speech he said that if we allowed Vietnam to turn to communism it would open the entire Pacific to communism. Eisenhower called this his...

• Containment Policy

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain Strategy

• Domino Theory

Which of these are results of the increase of automobile ownership during the 1950's?

• Construction of the Interstate Highway System

• Creation of drive-up services

• Increase people moving to urban areas

• Migration of people to suburbs

The term given to mostly white families moving to the suburbs.

• Migration

• Gentrification

• White Flight

• Urbanization

Due to the economic prosperity in America at the end of WWII, the nation enters another time of...

• war

• consumer culture

• poverty

• depression

As factory jobs were sent to other countries, as a large part of our work force transitioned to "office jobs", our country saw a rise in...

• College Drop-outs

• Middle Class

• Poverty

• Extreme Wealth

This is the landmark case in the fight for educational desegregation.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

Virginia had its own court case regarding desegregation of schools...this case happened in which county?

• Fairfax

• Albemarle

• Prince Edward

• Loudoun

As a response to desegregation of schools, some counties responded by...

• Increasing funding for public education

• Implementing busing programs

• Closing their schools for several years

• Sending teenagers into the military