Question 1

John Glenn was the first American launched into space.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What were the various technological advances brought together to develop the American space program in the late 1950s and the 1960s?

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Question 3

The first two people to walk on the surface of the moon were Neil Armstrong and ________.

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Question 4

The first American space satellite went into orbit shortly before the Soviet Union achieved the same feat.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

By the late 1950s, the Remington Rand Company was the largest American maker of business computers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Fulgencio Batista came to power in Cuba with American help.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Economic growth was at its peak in the early 1950s, when military spending was at its highest.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Following World War II, the American economy

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A)   gave the average American 50 percent more purchasing power in 1960 than in 1945.
B)   gave Americans the highest standard of living in 1960, after Switzerland and Sweden.
C)   grew, between 1945 and 1975, nearly ten times faster than the population.
D)   produced wealth that was equally distributed throughout the nation's population.
E)   gave the average American 10 percent more purchasing power than during the 1920s.F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

With highways, travel by automobile, truck, and bus was as fast or faster than by trains and contributed to the decline of

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A)   drive-in restaurants.
B)   downtowns.
C)   supermarkets.
D)   drive-in movies.
E)   None of these choices is correct.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

The first significant public awareness of computers in the United States came during the

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A)   1961 Mercury space flight.
B)   1957 launch of Sputnik.
C)   1958 launch of the first American satellite.
D)   1950 Bureau of Census tabulations.
E)   1952 election tabulations.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 12

During the 1950s, the U.S. government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

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A)   exploration of outer space.
B)   the establishment of communication and spy satellites around the earth.
C)   the quest to land a man on the moon.
D)   the long-range delivery of weapons.
E)   to catch up with German knowledge of rocketry.F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 13

The first significant computer of the 1950s was the ________.

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Question 14

The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated

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A)   the United States Senate.
B)   the Central Intelligence Agency.
C)   Dwight Eisenhower's family.
D)   the civil rights movement.
E)   the army.F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that

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A)   in the 1920s there were experiments in broadcasting pictures and sound.
B)   in 1946 there were 17,000 television sets in the United States.
C)   the federal government largely kept big business sponsorship out of television advertising.
D)   all three major television networks had started as radio companies.
E)   television quickly became the most powerful medium of mass communication in history.F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 16

In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with the actions of

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A)   northern blacks.
B)   southern blacks.
C)   northern whites.
D)   progressive liberals.
E)   southern whites.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 17

In his 1956 book on corporate America, The Organization Man, William Whyte Jr. contended

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A)   the ideal of rugged individualism had been reestablished in the business community.
B)   women and minorities had little chance for advancement in American corporations.
C)   corporate wealth was not being fairly shared with workers.
D)   the "inner-directed man" had become "other-directed."
E)   a worker's most valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 18

The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to

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A)   launch manned vehicles into space to orbit the earth.
B)   land men on the moon.
C)   build an orbiting space station.
D)   send men to Mars.
E)   develop a reusable spaceship.F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 19

Discuss the evolution of Eisenhower's dealings with the Soviet Union. Why did the Cold War persist? By the end of his presidency, had Eisenhower improved or worsened the Cold War?

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During his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenho...

Question 20

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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A)   reaffirmed the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
B)   passed by a narrow 5-4 vote.
C)   set specific timetables for enactment.
D)   declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.
E)   arose from a case involving segregation in Mississippi.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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