Chapter 24 Part 2

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 in part because he:
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manifested a public image of fatherly warmth.
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In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon's Checkers speech:
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reflected the growing importance of television in American life.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed which kind of individuals to his cabinet?
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Wealthy businessmen to run the government like an efficient business.
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Modern Republicanism included:
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Wealthy businesses part of the government. Scaled back gov. funding, kept new deal ideals, intended to redefine republicanism. Expanded welfare state ideas.
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Labor and employers agreed to a new "social contract" that included:
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EXCEPT: . Employers required the National Association of Manufacturers to accept the right of workers to organize unions.
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation:
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declared that any Soviet attack on an American ally would be countered by a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
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During the Eisenhower administration, U.S.-Soviet relations:
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improved somewhat after the end of the Korean War and the death of Stalin.
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The term used to describe developing countries that refused to align with either of the two Cold War powers was:
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"Third World countries."
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President Eisenhower used the CIA to overthrow which Middle Eastern government in the early 1950s, in large part because this government attempted to nationalize British-owned oil fields?
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Iran
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The Eisenhower Doctrine pledged support:
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middle eastern governments and send american troops to lebanon
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After Vietnam was divided at a peace conference in Geneva:
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the United States supported the anticommunist leader Ngo Dinh Diem.
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Why did Eisenhower intervene in Vietnam?
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to prevent Vietnam from becoming a communist nation
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The thesis of David Riesman's book The Lonely Crowd:
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Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives
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What were William Whyte's The Organization Man, Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders, and John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society all critical of?
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America's social values
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During the 1950s, American teenagers:
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increased in number and were often perceived to be alienated.
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1950s cultural dissent:
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True
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Challenges to the mass conformity of the 1950s came from:
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the Beats
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Factors that contributed to the emergence of the civil rights movement of the 1950s:
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EXCEPT: President Truman's refusal to desegregate the military
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Which Supreme Court decision did Brown overturn?
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Who argued the case Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court?
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Thurgood Marshall
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott:
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was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was:
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inspired by the teachings of Gandhi.
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What was the organization called that Martin Luther King Jr. established after the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
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The Southern Manifesto:
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repudiated the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Which statement best describes how the white South reacted to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
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Some states closed the public schools rather than integrate, and offered white children the choice to opt out of integrated schools.
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In response to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas:
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violence broke out, and President Eisenhower sent in federal troops.
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In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy became the Democratic candidate, despite:
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his Catholicism.
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The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon:
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highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns.
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In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans about:
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the military-industrial complex.