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United States 1950s-1970s Quiz

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1. Supreme court case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 declared that racially segregated schools violated the mandate that all citizens receive equal protection of the law.
True ✓
False ✓
2. Congress passed the ________ to expand college and postgraduate education.
The Act of Contrition ✓
Supreme Education Act of 1955 ✓
National Defense Education Act ✓
National Offense Education Act ✓
3. What was the book that Betty Friedan recognized that thousands of middle-class housewives were seething behind their picture windows?
The Feminine Mystique ✓
The Power Elite ✓
Playboy ✓
Jungle Book ✓
4. The Eisenhower administration's doctrine of ________ ________ took advantage of America's superior technology while economizing on military spending
Master Roads ✓
Maturity Rambitious ✓
Monarchy Raids ✓
Massive Retaliation ✓
5. Which supreme court case said that public schools could not start the school day with a group prayer?
Brown v. Board of Education ✓
Engel v. Vitale ✓
Abington Township v. Schempp ✓
Yick Wo v. Hopkins ✓
6. Congress created new connections between religion and government when it added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 and required currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust" in 1955.
True ✓
False ✓
7. Which movie depicted juvenile delinquency to the music of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock?"
Blackboard Jungle ✓
I Love Lucy ✓
Heartbreak Hotel ✓
Godzilla ✓
8. The Federal Highway Act of 1956 established what?
Making it legal to go 100 mph on a highway ✓
National system of interstate and defense highways ✓
Building 15,000 roads all across the United States ✓
System of bus transportations ✓
9. Eisenhower's first secretary of defense ______________ had headed General Motors.
"Engine Charlie" Wilson ✓
Willy Wiemer ✓
Charlie Morningstar ✓
George W Bush ✓
10. In 1952, Eisenhower defeated which Democratic candidate?
George W Bush ✓
Melba Pattillo ✓
Elvis Presley ✓
Adlai Stevenson ✓
11. The Cold War consensus never prevented the United States from seeing the nations of the developing world on their own terms. By viewing every independence movement and social revolution as part of the competition with Communism, American leaders created unnecessary problems.
True ✓
False ✓
12. What was seen on the first Sunday of October 1957 orbiting the earth?
Sputnik ✓
A satellite from Egypt ✓
Giant space ships ✓
An alien like UFO. ✓
13. Who was one of the nine African-American students in Central High who managed to last through a year of harassment and hostility?
Josh Brown Jr ✓
Barack Obama ✓
Melba Pattillo ✓
Echleon Elbino ✓
14. Which of these was a successful TV show depicting the family "togetherness?"
Leave it to Beaver. ✓
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ✓
Father Knows Best ✓
All of the above ✓
15. Michael Harrington published ______________ reminding Americans about the "underdeveloped nation" of 40-50 million poor people who had missed the last two decades of prosperity
The Other America ✓
United Nations of Poverty ✓
The Feminine Mystique ✓
Heartbreak Hotel ✓
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