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| 9300520517 | Proposal made by Eisenhower to the UN where the US, the Soviet Union,and the United Kingdom would turn over some of their nuclear material to an international agency for peaceful use | What was atoms for peace? | 0 | |
| 9300529059 | The US and Soviet Union distrusted each other too much and military spending was too important to American defense industries and jobs | Why was atoms for peace unsuccessful? | 1 | |
| 9300538209 | Keeping the financial costs of the cold War to a minimum, protecting US influences in key corners of the globe and avoid war | What was Eisenhower's foreign policy focused on? | 2 | |
| 9300546296 | Massive Retaliation | Policy adopted by the Eisenhower administration to limit the costs of the Cold War. Rather than keep a large military presence, the administration used the threat to to use the hydrogen bomb in the Soviet Union expanded its grasp to new territory | 3 | |
| 9300549209 | Brinkmaship | What was Massive Retaliation also called? | 4 | |
| 9300550168 | CIA | Established by President Truman and expanded by President Eisenhower, was the nation's spy agency charged with keeping tabs on developments in other countries especially those with communist influences and with engaging in secret missions to advanced American interests | 5 | |
| 9300568846 | Organized a government overthrow of the elected Prime Minister of Iran, Muhammad Mussadegh who may have had communist sympathies in favor of pro-Western Muhammad Rza Shah Pahlevi | What action did the CIA take in 1953 in the Middle East to protect American interests? | 6 | |
| 9300575220 | Helped overthrow the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala after he tried to create land reform by taking land from the US based United Fruit Company. Company was angry and the US feared a communist movement until the CIA overthrew the government | What action did the CIA take in 1954 in Latin America to protect American interests? | 7 | |
| 9300585627 | Built up anti-US sentiment | What impact did the actions of the CIA have on the Middle East and Latin America? | 8 | |
| 9300619698 | The US did not intervene | What was the US policy toward Vietnam and Taiwan? | 9 | |
| 9300623250 | Created a treaty recognizing Austrian independence and made many optimistic about the possibility of co-existence | What happened at the 1955 summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower? | 10 | |
| 9300628124 | Khrushchev denounced Stalin and proposed the de-Stalinization of Russia. Marked a new era in Russia | What was the significance of Khrushchev's speech of February 1956? | 11 | |
| 9300645582 | To build the Aswan Dam which would provide electricity, promote industrialization, and irrigate areas of Egypt | Why was the ruler of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser seeking funding from both the US and the Soviet Union? | 12 | |
| 9300656102 | They were angered and the US cancelled their loan to Egypt | How did the US and Soviet Union react when they found out that Nasser was playing both of them for funding? | 13 | |
| 9300658276 | He took control of the Suez Canal | How did Nasser respond when the US cancelled their loan? | 14 | |
| 9300659123 | It was crucial in sending oil to Europe | Why was the Suez Canal important? | 15 | |
| 9300663750 | With the help of Britain and France, Israel attacked Egypt | What happened after Nasser took control of the Suez Canal? | 16 | |
| 9300679236 | He was angry and ordered Israel to withdraw | How did Eisenhower react when he found out Israel attacked Egypt? | 17 | |
| 9300688039 | Eisenhower was ignored and the British and French bombed Egypt and Nasser sunk ships and blocked the canal | After Eisenhower's order to Israel to withdraw what happened? | 18 | |
| 9300692438 | Eisenhower threatened to send troops to Egypt | How did Eisenhower finally get the fighting in Egypt to stop? | 19 | |
| 9300696966 | True | True or False? After the Suez Canal incident, Britain and France never again played a major influence in the Middle East. | 20 | |
| 9300698249 | Discontent with Soviet Rule caused an uprising in Hungary were 40,000 Hungarians were killed after Khrushchev sent troops to end the uprising | What happened in Hungary in 1956? | 21 | |
| 9300702113 | Sputnik | The world's first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 | 22 | |
| 9300706082 | A Government Space Agency and Improved Education | What were two results from the Sputnik launch that impacted the US? | 23 | |
| 9300714483 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | A new government agency created in 1958 in response to Sputnik and specifically charged with fostering American space efforts; eventually led to the first manned moon landing and the space shuttle | 24 | |
| 9300720871 | National Defense Education Act (NDEA) | Federal aid to improve education, especially science and math education approved by Congress in 1958 | 25 | |
| 9300728588 | Better Education in Russia | Many thought that Sputnik's launch stemmed from what? | 26 | |
| 9300730378 | Spirit of Geneva | A perspective fostered by Eisenhower and Khrushchev that the Cold War might, at the least, be limited by their personal engagement with each other | 27 | |
| 9300738589 | Atmospheric nuclear testing was found to be a health risk | Why did the Soviet Union and the US suspend their nuclear testing? | 28 | |
| 9301624048 | Visit each other in their respective countries | What did Eisenhower and Khrushchev agree to do? | 29 | |
| 9301629995 | American U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down as it flew over Russia, the plane and the pilot, Francis Gary Powers were captured. Khrushchev demanded Eisenhower condemn the flights and punish those responsible which Eisenhower did not do, but he did suspend the flights | What was the U2 incident? | 30 | |
| 9301638811 | It was setback | How did the U2 incident impact the progress of peace between the US and Soviet Union? | 31 | |
| 9301640225 | Richard M. Nixon for the Republicans and John F. Kennedy for the Democrats | Who was nominated for the 1960 presidential election? | 32 | |
| 9301643998 | His charming personality, virtually unlimited campaign funds, and his superb campaign team | What factors enable John F. Kennedy to capture the Democratic party's nomination for President in the 1960 election | 33 | |
| 9301648829 | Promised to expand US defenses and space missions | What were Kennedy's campaign promises? | 34 | |
| 9301650526 | He made a very public call to King's wife and called for King's release, helped him gain many African American votes | When Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, what did Kennedy do? | 35 | |
| 9301655420 | Increased prosperity increased the average family income and 62% of homes were owner occupied | What were the changes in income and home ownership during the 1950s? | 36 | |
| 9304570931 | 80% | What percentage of homes had a television by 1960? | 37 | |
| 9304585396 | Brought news and current events to many Americans Changed how people viewed politicians and politics with more Americans finding intimacy with leaders and candidates Television shows reaffirmed white, middle class, suburban lifestyles | How did television impact America? | 38 | |
| 9304595532 | Need for support services and infrastructure as well as highways increased | As the desire for automobiles increased, the need for what also increased? | 39 | |
| 9304599343 | Fund that used revenue from automobiles to build highways | What was the Highway Trust Fund? | 40 | |
| 9304607259 | Interstate Highway System | A national system of super highways that Congress approved at the urging of Eisenhower in 1956 to improve car and truck travel across the US | 41 | |
| 9304613504 | Made travel by car, truck, and bus easier and cheaper, increased urban, suburban, and rural sprawl and decreased the need for mass transit | What were the impacts of the Interstate Highway System? | 42 | |
| 9304627654 | Gas Stations | What was the most widely built new commercial structure? | 43 | |
| 9304628939 | Increased dependency on the Middle East for oil | Need for gas increased what? | 44 | |
| 9304635933 | More Americans became more actively involved in religious organizations, religious programs ere televised and more Americans attended church | How did the role of religion in the lives of Americans change during the 1950s? | 45 | |
| 9304638287 | Billy Graham | Who was at the center of the religious revival in the 1950s? | 46 | |
| 9304645038 | He was the best known religious leader in the US for the next 50 years, held large sermons and religious revivals and he played a key role in the expansion of religion in the US | Why was Billy Graham important? | 47 | |
| 9304652833 | More Catholic schools, churches, and parishes were built at an increasing rate | How did Catholic America change during the 1950s? | 48 | |
| 9304656158 | Protestants still distrusted Catholics but were becoming more tolerant | How did Protestant views of Catholics change during the 1950s? | 49 | |
| 9304660191 | 3% | What percentage of Americans identified as Jewish? | 50 | |
| 9304815292 | Brought on a renewed interest in the Jewish faith Linked modern thinking with Jewish traditions and inner piety | What effect did WWII have on American Jews? | 51 | |
| 9304824131 | African Americans had their own religious revivals separate from Whites | What were some developments in African American religious communities? | 52 | |
| 9304828314 | The National Baptist Convention African Methodist Episcopal African Methodist Episcopal Zion | What were the three largest African American religious bodies? | 53 | |
| 9304833944 | Nation of Islam | A religious and political organization founded by Elijah Muhammad that mixed Muslim religious teachings with a campaign for African American separatism, pride, and self determination | 54 | |
| 9304844567 | Government saw religion as a way to counter atheistic communism Added "One nation under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and "In god we trust" to American currency | How did the increased religious faith of Americans influence government policies? | 55 | |
| 9304853864 | Dorothy Day | Name the dissenter: I helped found the Civil Catholic Worker Movement and protested the buildup of nuclear arms and Korean war | 56 | |
| 9304855802 | Myles Horton | Name the dissenter: I was a socialist party member and I trained leadership for the labor movement and the Civil Rights movement | 57 | |
| 9304855803 | Elvis Presley | Name the dissenter: I was a Rock 'n' Roll superstar that worried many people because I represented sultry suggestiveness and non-conformity | 58 | |
| 9304855804 | Alfred Kinsey | Name the dissenter: I wrote "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" which reported statistics on homosexual activity and adultery | 59 | |
| 9304855805 | Hugh Heffner | Name the dissenter: I published playboy which linked sexuality with upward mobility and described a good life as one filled with sex, liquor, and smoking | 60 | |
| 9304856981 | Allen Ginsberg | Name the dissenter: I had my poems "Howl and other poems" seized by the police as obscene and was forced to a trial | 61 | |
| 9304856982 | Jack Kerouac | Name the dissenter: I wrote "On the Road" which glorified escape from expectations and conventions | 62 | |
| 9304887285 | Generation that challenged the ideas or conformity in the 1950s | What was the "beat generation" or "beatniks" | 63 | |
| 9304892078 | Brown v. Board of Education | A supreme court decision in the 1954 declaring that "separate but equal" schools for children of different races violated the constitution | 64 | |
| 9304901538 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | What organization began challenging the legality of segregation? | 65 | |
| 9304905787 | Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall | What two lawyers took charge of the legal effort of challenging segregation? | 66 | |
| 9304911961 | US Supreme Court ruled Lloyd Gaines could not be rejected by the University of Missouri Law School because of his race. To offer education to whites but not blacks was a denial of equal rights | What was the significance of Missouri ex re. Gaines v. Canada, Registrar of the University, et al.? | 67 | |
| 9304924578 | Supreme Court ruled that separate salary schedules for black and white teachers violated the 14th amendment | What was the significance of Alston v. School Board of the City of Norfolk? | 68 | |
| 9304924579 | Supreme Court ruled that separate law schools for blacks and whites | What was the significance of Sweatt v. Painter? | 69 | |
| 9304924580 | Supreme Court ruled that segregating graduate students violated their equal protection rights | What was the significance of McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents? | 70 | |
| 9304924581 | 1896 decision that ruled segregation constitutional "separate but equal" | What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson? | 71 | |
| 9304925480 | Supreme Court declared segregation in interstate transportation was constitutional | What was the significance of Boynton v. Virginia? | 72 | |
| 9304964154 | After the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public school was unconstitutional, governors began resisting integration such as in Little Rock Arkansas where Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to stop nine African American students from enrolling | What happened at Little Rock Central High School? | 73 | |
| 9305037874 | He sent a thousand US soldiers to secure the school and ensure the students safety | How did Eisenhower respond to the events at Little Rock High School? | 74 | |
| 9305041397 | She refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white person in Montgomery, Alabama | Why was Rosa Parks arrested? | 75 | |
| 9305044855 | Sparked a movement to continue challenging segregation and a boycott of the Montgomery bus system and after a year of boycotting, the buses were desegregated | What impact did Rosa Parks arrest have? | 76 | |
| 9305048114 | Her experience and training as a civil rights activist | Why was Rosa Parks the right person to challenge segregated public transportation? | 77 | |
| 9305064900 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | The leading clergy-led voice of the southern, nonviolent Civil Rights Movement, founded in 1957 by MLK Jr. and some 60 other black ministers, many veterans of the Montgomery Bus Boycott | 78 | |
| 9305067965 | In 1960, 4 young African Americans sat down at the whites-only lunch counter and were denied service, causing hundreds of other students to join in and caused the de-segregation of lunch counters | What were the sit-ins and what impact did they have? | 79 | |
| 9305085406 | Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality where African Americans rode on interstate transportation in order to hasten integration on transportation services | What were Freedom Rides? | 80 | |
| 9305104683 | Interstate Commerce Commission ordered de-segregation | What was the impact of the Freedom Rides? | 81 | |
| 9305106483 | Summer where the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party gained national publicity for the denial of voting rights for African Americans in Mississippi | What was Freedom Summer? | 82 | |
| 9305118610 | Helped organize court cases which challenged the legality of segregation | What role did the NAACP play in the civil rights movement? | 83 | |
| 9305119947 | Congress of Racial Equality, organized freedom rights to speed up integration of transportation services | What role did the CORE play in the civil rights movement? | 84 | |
| 9305120764 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference Led voice of the Southern, nonviolent Civil rights movement | What role did the SCLC play in the civil rights movement? | 85 | |
| 9305120765 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that drew heavily on younger activists and college students | What role did the SNCC play in the civil rights movement? | 86 | |
| 9305120766 | First black to enroll at the University of Mississippi, backed by a federal court order | What role James Meredith play in the civil rights movement? | 87 | |
| 9305120767 | Chief of the Birmingham police force which arrested 3000 children and set attack dogs and fire hoses on children and adults during a protest to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama | What role "Bull" Connor play in the civil rights movement? | 88 | |
| 9305120768 | NAACP field secreatary in Jackson, Mississippi who was murdered on his front porch | What role did Medgar Evers play in the civil rights movement? | 89 | |
| 9305120769 | A separate Democratic delegation launched as a result of the SNCC led voter registration campaign that challenged the right of the regular, all-white delegation to represent Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic convention | What role did the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party play in the civil rights movement? | 90 | |
| 9305122070 | Spokeswoman for the MFDP, helped raise awareness for denial of voting rights for African Americans | What role did Fannie Lou Hamer play in the civil rights movement? | 91 | |
| 9305165527 | Struggled with ending segregated housing, poor quality schooling, and economic marginalization | What did African Americans in the North struggle with? | 92 | |
| 9305173503 | Malcolm X joined the Nation of Islam and pledged total allegiance to Allah and Elijah Muhammad, however Malcolm began to doubt Elijah and broke with the Nation of Islam | What was the relationship between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad? | 93 | |
| 9305181963 | He began to understand and believe in integration | What happened to Malcolm X's beliefs about civil rights after he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca? | 94 | |
| 9305184814 | Malcolm X was much more militant and didn't believe in the nonviolent protest MLK practiced and believed in | How was Malcolm X's beliefs about civil rights different from Martin Luther King Jr's beliefs about civil rights? | 95 |
