USH Final Exam Spring 2026

In 1946, Winston Churchill used the term "Iron Curtain" when describing conditions in Europe. What did he mean by this term?

• European nations needed to build more factories

• Peace had finally spread throughout the countries of Europe

• The militaries of Western Europe were becoming too powerful

• There was a philosophical and political division between communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

How did the USA use the Marshall Plan to promote democracy?

• Containing Communism so that it cannot spread any farther

• Giving money to countries so they do not become Communist

• Fighting wars by using other countries to stop Communism

• Finding ways other than nuclear missiles to stop Communism

The Beatniks can best be described as

• orgainizing campaigns against racial injustice

• rebelling against conformity and tradition

• working to revive organized religion

• valuing middle class culture

The stereotypical image of the 1950s as a decade in which were everyone was alike. 

• Age of Conformity 

• Age of Reason 

• Age of Individualism 

• Age of Development

How did television increase consumer culture in the 1950s?

• children's programs increased a want in children

• the decline of radios led people to rush out to buy them before they stopped making radios

• advertisements and commercials increased a want to buy products

• people had to buy accessories to go along with the televisions

Which international organization was formed by the U.S., Canada, and

western European nations in response to the Soviet threat in Berlin?

• United Nations (UN)

• Warsaw Pact (WP)

• European Union (EU)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

What was Sputnik?

• A satellite launched by a Soviet Missile that signaled a "missile gap" to many Americans

• Soviet name for their nuclear weapons

• Name for Stalin's Home

• A name for Soviet planes

Residential communities that boom in the 1950s due to interstate highways and cheaper houses, simultaneously moving tax money away from inner cities were the

• Urban sanctuaries 

• Suburbs 

• satellite cities 

• urban sprawl

When Kennedy saw the violence in the Birmingham Campaign, he

• asked Martin Luther King to become Secretary of State.

• assured Bull Connor he would help.

• called on Congress to pass a Civil Rights Bill.

• asked newspapers to stop reporting it.

hat city did MLK say was the most segregated city in the South, and therefore target for a peaceful protest?

• Houston, TX

• Jackson , MS

• Birmingham, AL

• Miami, Fl