The Eras of Conformity and Containment
1. Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision
that
✘(A) was a forerunner of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
✘(B) established free public colleges in the United States
✓ (C) declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal
✘(D) established free public elementary and secondary schools in the United States
✘(E) provided for federal support in parochial schools
2. President Truman’s decision to recall General MacArthur from his
command of United Nations forces in Korea was primarily based on the
principle of
✘(A) containment of communism
✘(B) limited rather than total warfare
✘(C) isolationism rather than interventionism
✓ (D) civilian control of the military
✘(E) self-determination for all free people
3. The ideal family as presented in the 1950s was
✘(A) an accurate representation of American life
✘(B) true only for urban family life
✓ (C) not representative of African American families
✘(D) undermined by government policies
✘(E) misleading due to high divorce rate after World War II
4. In a famous 1947 article, George Kennan argued that the United States
should pursue a policy of
✘(A) neutrality
✘(B) one worldism
✘(C) isolationism
✓ (D) containment
✘(E) militarism
5. Which of the following contributed the LEAST to the growth of the Red Scare
in the 1950s?
✘(A) Loss of atomic bomb secrets to the Society
✓ (B) Army-McCarthy hearings
✘(C) Alger Hiss case
✘(D) Fall of China to the Communists
✘(E) Investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee
6. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief cold war problem was…
✘(A) Sputnik
✘(B) Ending the Korean War
✘(C) McCarthyism
✓ (D) U-2 Incident
✘(E) Death of Joseph Stalin
7. President Eisenhower’s economic and national unification program was
manifest in…
✘(A) establishing several trans-continental airlines
✘(B) rebuilding the nation’s railroads
✓ (C) building the new freeway, parkway, and ribbons highways
✘(D) careful supervision of the stock market
✘(E) rebuilding the nation’s ports on both oceans
8. The area of the world where the Cold War was most acutely focused was:
✘(A) Japan
✓ (B) Germany
✘(C) Argentina
✘(D) Nigeria
✘(E) Philippines
9. Nuclear weaponry has reached a colossal xenophobia of fear, because of the
creation of ALL EXCEPT:
✘(A) Hydrogen warheads
✘(B) Missiles for delivery
✘(C) Computers for programmed delivery
✘(D) Neutron bombs
✓ (E) Defense mechanisms
10. During his presidency, Harry S. Truman did all of the following EXCEPT:
✓ (A) abolish the Tennessee Valley Authority
✘(B) establish a new loyalty program for federal employees
✘(C) extend Social Security benefits
✘(D) order the desegregation of the armed forces
✘(E) veto the Taft-Hartley Act