Question 1
All of the following caused anxiety during the 1950s EXCEPT:
A) Cold War rhetoric.
B) nuclear proliferation.
C) economic uncertainty.
D) fears that the federal government had become too powerful.
Question 2
After October 1949, Truman was, perhaps unfairly, blamed for the loss of:
A) the Cold War.
B) Eastern Europe.
C) China.
D) Vietnam.
Question 3
The 1952 film, Invasion, U.S.A., involved an unnamed invading enemy which audiences were expected to identify as:
A) German Nazis.
B) Martians.
C) Russian communists.
D) third world refugees.
Question 4
The Manhattan Project was centered in Los Alamos, New Mexico and:
A) Hanford, Washington.
B) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
C) Alamogordo, New Mexico.
D) Orange County, California.
Question 5
Time magazine editor Whittaker Chambers played a controversial role in the investigation of:
A) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
B) Alger Hiss.
C) communists in the Army.
D) CIO communists.