Cold War and Civil Rights Movement

What do the results of this poll show?

• Most Americans feared a growing national deficit.

• The Cold War was a major concern to most Americans.

• Americans were most concerned with the growing unemployment problem.

The main idea of this 1947 cartoon is that the United States was ---

• focusing on foreign affairs while ignoring domestic problems

• alienating its traditional Western European allies

• creating a debt that the American economy could not afford

• starting a new aid program that held many unknown risks

Which event of 1948–1949 is illustrated by the cartoon?

• the Berlin Airlift

• the collapse of the Berlin Wall

• the reunification of Germany

• the Allied invasion of Germany

What was confirmed by the publication of the Venona Papers?

• Thousands of American citizens who believed in Communism were jailed or deported.

• The reputations of many people were ruined by false accusations of disloyalty.

• Some Americans in government and industry had in fact been helping the Soviet Union.

• Organized groups of Communists had been responsible for violent terrorism.

The successful launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 sparked —

• the Cold War with the United States

• Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe

• disarmament discussions between the Superpowers

• American fears that the Soviets had achieved technological superiority

The term “McCarthyism” is sometimes used to describe —

• removing members of Congress for abuses of power

• investigating civil service employees for corruption

• using illegal means to obtain evidence in criminal trials

• accusing people of subversive activities without sufficient evidence

Immediately after World War II, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union became strained because —

• the United States used military force in Korea

• the United States blocked the Soviet Union from joining the United Nations

• each country believed that the other one was a threat to its security

• both nations were competing for supremacy in space exploration

Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

This quotation illustrates the action of the Supreme Court to-

• uphold the decision in *Plessy v. Ferguson*

• overrule the decision in *Plessy v. Ferguson*

• create job training for unemployed African Americans

• provide for educational funding for African Americans

What was the significance of sending federal troops to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

• It led to a federal takeover of many Southern public schools.

• It strengthened control of education by state governments.

• It was the first time martial law had been declared in the United States.

• It showed that the government would enforce court decisions on integration.