APUSH Chp 28

During the Cuban missile crisis,

• Khrushchev used television to alert the world to the crisis.

• The U.S. and the S.U. went on full military alert.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower served as a mediator between President Kennedy and Khrushchev.

• President Kennedy worked quietly through diplomatic channels to resolve the crisis.

The "hot line" that permitted direct telecommunications between Washington and Moscow in a crisis situation was installed as a direct result of the

• The Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Growing danger of war in the Taiwan Straits and Vietnam.

• Building the Berlin Wall.

• Bay of Pigs crisis.

Alan Freed

• Helped to introduce white America to the new black sound by playing rhythm and blues records on the radio in 1954.

• Criticized rock n' roll as the devil's music.

• Introduced Elvis Presley to the American public on his popular television program in 1956,

• Discovered Elvis Presley's talent and gave him his first major recording contract.

The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950's America was most evident in the dramatic rise to popularity of

• Norman Vincent Peale.

• Pat Robertson.

• Billy Sunday.

• Billy Graham.

In the 1960 election,

• Kennedy won decisively over Nixon in popular votes but barely won the Electoral College.

• Nixon was extremely impressive on television.

• There were confirmed cases of voting fraud in Illinois, which Kennedy won by a slim margin; it was one of the states that gave him his narrow margin of victory.

• The traditional Democratic coalition first assembled by Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered significant erosion in the loss of white southern votes to the Republicans.

Which one of the following does not characterize the car culture in the United States during the 1950's?

• A serious search for fuel efficiency.

• Motels.

• Air pollution.

• A preference for big cars.

In the test ban treaty of August 1963, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed to ban all

• Nuclear test and to limit the number of conventional weapons.

• Nuclear testing in the air, seas, and space.

• Nuclear testing.

• Underground nuclear testing.

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American women in the 1950's?

• They were told by the media and by society that the highest value and the only commitment for women was the fulfillment of their own femininity.

• They were told by the literature of the day that a education was the key to "republican motherhood".

• Prominent psychologists and childcare experts claimed that "well adjusted" women could handle jobs and motherhood simultaneously.

• The media glamorized the careers of highly paid women professionals, whereas the jobs that middle-class women actually found were overwhelmingly dull, underpaid, and dead end.

Television in the United States in the late 1940's and the 1950's

• Contributed powerfully to the homogeneity (conformity) of American culture.

• Stimulated movie attendance through the use of advertising.

• Was subsidized by the government.

• Portrayed America as a nation of systemic racism.

The baby boom in post-World War II America is most accurately explained as resulting from

• Increased welfare payments to mothers with dependent children.

• Government incentives, chiefly tax credits to families.

• A drop in the age of marriage.

• The Roman Catholic Church's successful stand against birth control.