Author Question: Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included A. the growth of the urban black middle ... (Read 73 times)

Metfan725 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated

A. the Central Intelligence Agency.

B. the civil rights movement.

C. Dwight Eisenhower's family.

D. the army.

E. the United States Senate.

Question 2

Under John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation, announced in 1954, the United States would

A. rely primarily on large conventional forces in local conflicts to defeat communism.

B. use military force before diplomacy in dealing with the Soviet Union.

C. win the Cold War regardless of the financial cost.

D. counter any Soviet military move with a larger American force.

E. use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.

Question 3

The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved

A. a federal highway system.

B. the space program.

C. a large tax cut.

D. a nuclear energy program.

E. a national healthcare system.

Question 4

In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required

A. the arrest of hundreds of whites protesting at the school.

B. the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders.

C. President Dwight Eisenhower to remove the governor of Arkansas from office.

D. the Supreme Court to issue another decision, Brown II.

E. the replacement of many of the school's teachers.

Question 5

Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included

A. the growth of the urban black middle class.

B. Cold War politics.

C. the rapid spread of television.

D. the events of World War II.

E. All these answers are correct.