Which of the following describes Eisenhower's politics of the middle way in the early 1950's?
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Eisenhower pledged to govern by compromise and consensus.
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What did anti-communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?
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McCarthy conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of communists.
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What was the Eisenhower administration's approach to social welfare programs?
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It allowed the welfare state to grow and the federal government to take on new projects.
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What was President Eisenhower's most important and far- reaching domestic initiative?
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The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956.
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President Eisenhower believed the development of nuclear power for domestic purposes should...
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be left in the hands of private enterprise.
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The three-part program for compensating, terminating and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration's commitment to...
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limiting the scope of federal government activity.
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In the context of President Eisenhower's policy toward Native Americans, termination meant...
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ending the federal government's special relationship with the Indians by transferring jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments.
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One unintended consequence of the federal government's programs to relocate Native Americans was...
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the emergence of militant pan-Indian movement two decades later.
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In what direction did Eisenhower, the first Republican to serve as president after the New Deal, take the federal government during his second term?
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He left the size and functions of the federal government intact.
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The key to President Eisenhower's New Look in foreign policy was...
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a smaller conventional army bolstered by strength in air power and nuclear weapons.
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles supported a foreign policy strategy of...
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going to the brink of war to halt the Soviet's efforts to extend their territory any further.
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When Hungarian freedom fighters mounted a revolt against the Soviet-controlled government of their country in 1956, the Eisenhower administration...
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a force that had to be stopped before it spread to Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
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Between 1955 and 1961, the United States spent $800 million in South Vietnam, most of it to...
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fund the South Vietnamese army.
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In the 1950's, the CIA intervened in the internal affairs of...
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Iran, Guatemala and Cuba.
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Why did many Cuban people support the uprising led Fidel Castro against Fulgencio Batista in 1959?
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Many Cuban people had a strong desire for political and economic autonomy.
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One of the major difficulties the Eisenhower administration had in negotiating with certain Middle Eastern countries was...
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the tendency of those countries to ask for aid from both the United States and teh Soviet Union.
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The purposes of the Eisenhower Doctrine was to...
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aid any Middle Eastern nation requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international communism.
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The United States reacted to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957...
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with a feeling of inferiority about U.S. scientific and technological development.
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What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office?
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An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems.
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The output of American farms increased between 1940 and 1960, while the number of farm workers...
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decreased by nearly one-third.
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How did union membership as a percentage of the labor force in the United States change during the 1950's?
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It peaked at just over 27 percent in 1957.
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What impact did technological advances have on American industry in the 1950's?
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They chipped away at the number of jobs in the steel, copper and aluminum industries.
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In the 1950's, most employed American women worked in...
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clerical, service and domestic jobs.
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Levittown, New York was...
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an example of the assembly-line approach to producing affordable housing.
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In most cities during the 1950's, the black population...
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increased by 50 percent as African Americans sought economic opportunities.
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One reason many Americans moved to the Sun Belt in the 1950's was...
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the move toward an automobile-based society, which made it easier for most people to move south and west.
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Why were the South and West sometimes referred to as the Gun Belt?
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The regions had captured the lion's share of Cold War spending for the production of bombers and missiles.
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The smog that plagued Los Angeles in the 1950's was the result of...
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sprawling urban and suburban settlements without efficient public transportation.
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Operation Wetback revealed that most white Americans...
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generally opposed the permanent immigration of Mexicans.
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Which of the following describes higher education in the United States between 1940 and 1960?
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It became increasingly available to veterans, the middle class and African Americans.
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One cause of the unparalleled material abundance of the United States in the 1950's was...
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a population increase of almost 30 million.
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In her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that...
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the idealization of domesticity pressured women to seek fulfillment in serving others.
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Some critics suggested that the reason for renewed interest in religion during the 1950's was...
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Americans' need for conformity and for social outlets.
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Between 1950 and 1960, the percentage of American families with television sets grew from less than 10 percent to...
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almost 90 percent.
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In which of the following ways did television affect U.S. politics in the 1950's?
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It allowed candidates to appeal directly to voters in their homes, which elevated the importance of politicians' personal attractiveness.
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What did Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow call television after he surveyed what it offered to Americans in 1961?
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A vast wasteland.
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What was sociologist David Riesman's criticism of American society in his 1950 book The Lonely Crowd?
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Riseman lamented the growing conformity in American society.
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How did rock and roll challenge American social and cultural norms in the 1950's?
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It was sexually suggestive.
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Why did Alfred Kinsey's best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female provoke a firestorm of outrage in the 1950's?
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Kinsey refused to make moral judgments on his findings that homosexuality and adultery were not uncommon.
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The work of the 1950's authors Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac was known for...
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rejecting almost every aspect of the mainstream culture.
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The revolution in the visual arts that began in New York City in the 1950's...
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stressed energy and spontaneity over recognizable forms.
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The most important changes in civil rights in the United States in the 1950's were instituted by...
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ordinary African Americans.
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The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned which of the following precedents?
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Separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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How did President Eisenhower ultimately respond to the Arkansas National Guard's attempts to block the enrollment of nine black students in Little Rock's Central High School in 1957?
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He sent army troops to Little Rock to oversee the integration of the school.
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The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 can be characterized as...
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symbolic.
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