APUSH Chapter 37 Flashcards

Which of the following was not true of the changing nature of work in the 1950s? (Select all that apply)

Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the:

During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would __________ to help to end the Korean War.

In terms of politics, television did all of the following except:

Dwight Eisenhower's greatest asset as president was his:

Among anticommunists, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was the:

The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower's strongest commitment during his presidency was to:

In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist attacks, President Eisenhower:

Senator Joseph McCarthy first rose to national prominence by:

As a result of Senator McCarthy's crusade against communist subversion in America:

Senator McCarthy's anticommunist crusade ended when he:

The new militancy and restlessness among many members of the African American community after 1945 was especially generated by:

In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregated system that they had created, African Americans used all of the following methods except:

Which one of the following is least related to the other three?

The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because:

In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court:

The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems inherently unequal was:

On the subject of racial justice, President Eisenhower:

President Dwight Eisenhower's attitude toward racial justice can best be described as:

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the:

As president, Dwight Eisenhower supported:

President Eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as:

Dwight Eisenhower's policies toward Native Americans included:

The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt's New Deal was:

During his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower accepted the principle and extended the benefits of:

As a part of his New Look at foreign policy, President Eisenhower:

As the French fortress of Dienbienphu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in 1954, President Eisenhower:

President Eisenhower's New Look at foreign policy in the 1950s planned for:

In 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued domination by the Soviet Union, the United States under Dwight Eisenhower:

The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War II was:

The 1955 Geneva Conference:

In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil, the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1953:

In 1956 the United States condemned __________ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal crisis.

During the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both:

The Suez crisis marked the last time in history that the United States could:

The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of __________ that wanted help to resist communist aggression.

During his second term, President Eisenhower:

In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957,

Which of the following is least related to the other four?

The Paris summit conference scheduled for 1960 collapsed because of the:

By the end of the 1950s, Latin American anger toward the United States had intensified because Washington had done all of the following except:

The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was:

When Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961,

Two postwar American fiction writers who explored the problems and anxieties of affluence were:

The title of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man refers to:

Compared to World War I, the literary outpouring from World War II can be best described as:

Many of the better-known American poets in the post-World War II era: