Unit Test 4

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  coined the term “Black Power” in 1966.

B  insisted that blacks work alongside whites to achieve civil and political rights.

C  alarmed whites by wearing military garb when he spoke at gatherings.

D  spoke out against the possibility of interracial cooperation after a trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1964.

E  was a sharp critic of the ideas of integration and nonviolence.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  documents how corporate bureaucracies had transformed employees into “organization men” who can’t think for themselves.

B  describes Americans as “other-directed” basically conformists who can’t live truly independent lives because they lack the inner resources.

C  is a brilliant protest against materialism and conformism and written while he was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.

D  invites readers to scream out against corporate leaders, politicians, and military men who dominate government and society and deny Americans the ability to formulate available choices.

E  examines rebellious youth better known as juvenile delinquents.

A  froze each countries arsenal of intercontinental missiles.

B  placed importance on respect for basic liberties.

C  was an example of how President Ford dismissed Nixon’s policy of Detente.

D  dismantled Europe’s post-World War II boundaries.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  He became the first American President to visit the Soviet Union.

B  He and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were more interested in power than ideology.

C  He sent troops into neutral Cambodia hoping to cut off North Vietnam’s supply line.

D  His visit to China in 1972 leads to Beijing taking up China’s seat at the United Nations.

E  By improving relations with the Soviets he believed they would influence North Vietnam to end the war.

A  embracing personal freedom through public smoking and drinking.

B  how to achieve the suburban dream.

C  the emptiness of consumer culture.

D  the lack of opportunities for educated women.

E  a society that deemed marriage and motherhood as inadequate.

A  believed that individual autonomy was the cornerstone of any free society.

B  supported strongly the notion of unregulated capitalism.

C  were opposed to a strong national government as a bitter reaction against the New Deal.

D  understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.

A  Eisenhower wants to distance the Republican Party from its identification with the Great Depression.

B  President Eisenhower presides over the largest public-works enterprise, the interstate highway system.

C  Eisenhower supported increased government spending to greatly expand the military.

D  Core New Deal programs are kept in place.

E  The National Defense Education Act offered direct federal funding to higher education.

A  Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous speech “I have a dream” to a gathering of 250,000 black and white Americans.

B  Medgar Evers, field secretary of the NAACP is killed by sniper fire.

C  The images, broadcast on television, of schoolchildren being assaulted by police.

D  A bomb exploding at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, killing four young girls.

E  Kennedy reads “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” an eloquent plea for racial justice written by MLK while serving a nine day prison term in Birmingham.

A  By 1956, blue-collar workers outnumbered white-collar workers.

B  The South benefited from government contracts for air craft, guided missiles, and radar systems.

C  The poverty rate increased by 1959.

D  The West became the home of numerous military bases and government-funded shipyards.

E  The 1950s appeared as the last decade of industrial strength in the United States.