Elvis Presley perfected his unique style by listening and performing in  Memphis, Tennessee on this black thoroughfare and center of African music:    
 Bourbon Street    
 Lauderdale Court    
 * Beale Street    
 Handy Street    
    

All of the following were parts of Elvis's unique blend of music except:     
 gospel    
 black rhythm and blues    
 white country    
 * reggae    
    

In his administration, Eisenhower favored appointing people who were     
 * friendly to corporate interests    
 former New Dealers    
 friendly to labor    
 former military officers    
    

Eisenhower achieved all of the following except:     
 * major reductions in defense spending.    
 appointing businessmen to his cabinet.    
 deregulating the environment.    
 creating the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.    
    

The following was a negative effect of the Federal Housing Administration  (FHA):    
 * Its policies inscribed racial and income segregation into public policy.    
 It issued long-term mortgage loans.    
 It subsidized the housing industry.    
 It required less than a 10 percent down payment on loans.    
    

The GI Bill of Rights     
 * provided educational grants to veterans.    
 gave veterans a substantial re-enlistment bonus.    
 guaranteed future employment for returning veterans.    
 gave bonuses only to Korean War veterans.    
    

The following was the nation's largest public works project:     
 * the Federal Highway Act of 1956    
 the National Defense Education Act    
 the Boulder Dam    
 the Servicemen's Readjustment Act    
    

While the Federal Highway Act of 1956 helped both the automobile and  construction industries, it hurt    
 * mass transit systems.    
 urban center construction.    
 farming communities.    
 the satellite industry.    
    

The Soviet launching of Sputnik prompted     
 * the National Defense Education Act.    
 the Federal Highway Act.    
 the GI Bill of Rights.    
 the Submerged Land Act.    
    

Of the following, which one was MOST likely to get a Federal Housing  Administration loan in the post WWII era?    
 * a homebuyer in a white suburb    
 a suburban duplex buyer    
 an inner city single unit buyer    
 a buyer of an old house requiring repairs    
    

All of the following are associated with suburban life except:     
 * mass transit    
 domesticity    
 middle-class    
 conformity    
    

The new suburbs were characterized by     
 * ethnic identities.    
 mixing of ethnic groups.    
 mixing of economic classes.    
 racial integration.    
    

Betty Friedan's work The Feminine Mystique     
 celebrated suburban life and the nuclear family.    
 * articulated the frustrations of suburban women.    
 chronicled the hazards of working women.    
 stressed the power of positive thinking to middle-class women.    
    

Which one of the following is not associated with the labor movement of the  1950s?    
 influence in the Republican Party    
 division among major unions    
 organization of white collar workers    
 * a high point in union membership    
    

All of the following contributed to the expansion of higher education  except:    
 * the expansion of the number of colleges    
 the GI Bill    
 the NDEA    
 the baby boom    
    

In higher education, there was a shift     
 * away from undergraduate education.    
 toward graduate education.    
 toward faculty research.    
 acceptance of corporate values.    
    

All of the following reinforced the notion that teenagers were a special  community except:    
 * the federal government    
 the market place    
 the mass media    
 schools    
    

More than anyone else, this singer defined the new youth culture in postwar  America.    
 * Elvis Presley    
 Louis Armstrong    
 Benny Goodman    
 Bo Diddley    
    

Southerners feared rock 'n' roll music because     
 * White females might become attracted to black performers.    
 It might bring more northerners into the region.    
 It would destroy parental authority.    
 It would surpass country music.    
    

During the 1950s, parents feared all but     
 * teenage spending.    
 rock 'n' roll music.    
 juvenile delinquency.    
 violence in the media.    
    

All of the following were examples of urban ethnic or working-class family  television shows except:    
 variety shows like The Milton Berle Show    
 working-class urban family shows like The Honeymooners    
 original live drama like Goodyear Television Playhouse    
 * affluent suburban WASP shows like Father Knows Best    
    

Television did all of the following except:     
 * create a sophisticated, urbane culture    
 unite conservative and radical critics    
 reshape political life    
 reshape consumption    
    

Network executives bowed to     
 * anti-Communist crusaders.    
 Communist crusaders.    
 Hollywood.    
 cultural critics.    
    

This politician used television to political advantage:     
 * Estes Kefauver    
 Adlai Stevenson    
 Vance Packard    
 Joseph McCarthy    
    

The Beats produced a literature that     
 * challenged every element of mainstream 1950s culture.    
 expressed faith in American ability to retain individuality.    
 warned of the "tepid, flaccid Middlebrow Culture" of the mass media.    
 condemned the 1960s counterculture.    
    

Which one of the following has the LEAST in common with the others?     
 On the Road    
 * Ernie Kovacs    
 Allen Ginsberg    
 the Beats    
    

Why didn't the United States intervene during the Hungarian Revolution?     
 * Eisenhower understood that the Soviet Union would protect Eastern Europe at all  costs.   
 Eisenhower did not want to increase military spending.    
 Eisenhower wanted to end the Korean War and did not want to anger the Soviets.    
 Eisenhower wanted to end the Cold War.    
    

Hopes for reconciliation with the Soviet Union after a 1959 visit by  Khruschev to the United States were dashed by    
 Stalin's death and the emergence of Khrushchev.    
 the Soviet launch of Sputnik.    
 * Soviet exposure of American U-2 spy flights.    
 U.S. intervention in the East Berlin uprising.    
    

While Eisenhower wanted better relations with the Soviet Union, Congress     
 * increased the military budget by $8 billion.    
 reduced the CIA budget by $8 billion.    
 organized a separate summit with Khrushchev.    
 passed laws preventing Eisenhower from daccent(e)tente.    
    

Eisenhower's foreign policy depended on nuclear armaments and     
 * covert activity.    
 expanding the space program.    
 forcing the Soviets out of eastern Europe.    
 massive increases in military spending.    
    

Why did the CIA force Mohammed Mossadegh out of office in Iran?     
 * The United States wanted to protect oil interests in the Middle East.    
 The United States wanted a king, not a democratic leader, in Iran.    
 The United States was worried that Mossadegh would nationalize banks.    
 The king of Iraq asked the CIA to remove Mossadegh.    
    

Eisenhower's Vietnam policy     
 committed thousands of ground troops to helping the French.    
 left the South Vietnamese government to fend for itself.    
 upheld the Geneva accord and helped hold national elections.    
 * rejected commitment of American troops.    
    

In Guatemala, the CIA worked to promote the benefit of     
 * the United Fruit Company.    
 the General Motors Company.    
 the General Electric Company.    
 Schlumberger.    
    

South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem's policies brought on civil war in his  nation because of    
 * corruption and repressive policies.    
 Diem's refusal to allow elections.    
 Diem's commitment to Communism.    
 Diem's refusal to allow land reform.    
    

All of the following were part of President Kennedy's New Frontier program  except:    
 * lower support for higher education    
 a higher minimum wage    
 medical care for the elderly    
 increased Social Security benefits    
    

With regard to foreign policy, the Eisenhower years are known for     
 * expansion of economic strength and limits of power in the world.    
 expansion of military might and massive military buildup.    
 military buildup and massive economic decline.    
 active civil rights reform on the part of the administration.    
    

Why was it difficult for John Kennedy to achieve a liberal domestic agenda?     
 * opposition from conservative southern Democrats in congress    
 opposition from northern liberals who believed Kennedy was not sincere    
 Kennedy's lack of commitment to a liberal agenda    
 Kennedy's strong commitment to civil rights    
    

All of the following are New Frontier programs except:     
 * the National Defense Education Act    
 the Peace Corps    
 the Presidential Commission on the status of women.    
 the Revenue Act of 1962    
    

This nation was involved in the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis:     
 * Cuba    
 Mexico    
 Vietnam    
 Nicaragua    
    

Which one of the following has these events in the correct order? (1) 	The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane.  (2) 	The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb.  (3) 	The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails.  (4) 	The Soviets launch Sputnik.    
 4, 2, 1, 3    
 1, 2, 4, 3    
 * 2, 4, 1, 3    
 3, 1, 4, 2    
    

Which one of the following events did not happen in 1954?     
 Vietminh forces the French to surrender at Dienbienphu.    
 * The nuclear test ban treaty is signed.    
 The CIA overthrows the Guzman government in Guatemala.    
 The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb.    
    

Jack Kerouac published On the Road in     
 1950.    
 1952.    
 1955.    
 * 1957.    
    

Almost 90 percent of American homes had a television by     
 1950.    
 1957.    
 * 1960.    
 1963.    
    

In October of this year, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the  brink of a superpower conflict:    
 1952    
 1956    
 1960    
 * 1962    
    

By 1970, more Americans lived in this area:     
 * suburbs    
 inner cities    
 rural areas    
 small towns    
    

The United States intervened in of the following countries in the 1950s and  1960s except:    
 Cuba    
 Guatemala    
 the Dominican Republic    
 * Venezuela    
    

Riots against Vice President Nixon occurred in this nation:     
 * Venezuela    
 Panama    
 Dominican Republic    
 Guatemala    
    

After 1960, opposition to this country's revolution dominates U.S. policy in  the Caribbean:    
 Guatemala    
 * Cuba    
 Panama    
 Mexico    
    

All of the following were Caribbean countries that the United States was  consistently involved in from the mid-nineteenth century to 1966 except:    
 Guatemala    
 Panama    
 the Dominican Republic    
 * El Salvador    
    

Kennedy did not run well in this area in 1960:     
 * the South    
 the Northeast    
 the Midwest    
 the Eastern seaboard