Question 1

Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the

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A)   Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
B)   National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
C)   United Negro Improvement Association.
D)   Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
E)   Congress of Racial Equality.F) B) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 2

The Supreme Court set no specific timetable for the desegregation of schools.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

As secretary of state, John Foster Dulles believed the containment policy practices of the Truman administration had been too moderate.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the early twentieth century, the vaccine that raised the most safety concerns in the United States was for the prevention of

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A)   typhoid.
B)   tetanus.
C)   small pox.
D)   rubella.
E)   tuberculosis.F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 5

All of the following statements regarding poverty in America between 1950 and 1960 are true EXCEPT that

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A)   more than 30 million Americans lived in poverty at any given time during the year 1960.
B)   the percentage of the population living in poverty rose during the decade.
C)   Native Americans were the single poorest group in the country.
D)   most of the poor experienced poverty only temporarily.
E)   many rural Americans lived on the margins of the affluent society.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

One of the last acts of the Eisenhower administration was to cut off diplomatic relations with Castro's Cuba.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In the 1950s, advertisers played an enormously important role in television programming.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Until the early 1950s, the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was

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A)   France.
B)   Taiwan.
C)   Japan.
D)   England.
E)   China.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 9

Following World War II, American scientists made a critical contribution to the development of penicillin by

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A)   demonstrating the value of antiseptic solutions to prevent infection.
B)   first using the antibacterial agent known as sulfanilamide.
C)   developing methods for its mass production and commercial distribution.
D)   discovering the antibacterial properties for which the drug was named.
E)   discovering it could be used to treat streptococcal blood infections.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union worsened during and after a failed revolution in ________, where Soviet tanks and troops crushed the uprising and restored a pro-Soviet regime.

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Question 11

The Eisenhower administration used the CIA to topple the leftist government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in ________.

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Question 12

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 was essentially successful.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

During the 1950s, television created a uniform image of American life, even as it showed conditions that could well accentuate social conflict.

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A) True 
 B)False

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