Exam 24: Cold War America

A) North Atlantic Treaty Organizations
B) Congress of Racial Equality blocks
C) National Security Services
D) National Security Councils
E) White Citizens' Councils

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As nationalist battles in Vietnam, Laos,...

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A) The States' Rights Democratic Party
B) The Vermont Progressive Party
C) The Citizens Party of the United States
D) The Socialist Labor Party of America
E) The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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A) The Goldwater-Nichols Act
B) The Davis-Bacon Act
C) The Kennedy-Hawkins Act
D) The Payne-Aldrich Act
E) The Taft-Hartley Act

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A) keep West Berliners from visiting the Soviet portion of the city.
B) keep people in the Soviet section from fleeing the country.
C) force the West Berliners to accept the authority of the Soviet Union.
D) keep Western influence and West German currency out of the Soviet zone.
E) force the Americans to give him control of all of Germany.

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A) Eighty percent of Americans owned at least one car by the end of the 1950s.
B) Ten percent of Americans owned at least one car by the end of the 1950s.
C) Fifty percent of Americans owned at least one car by the end of the 1950s.
D) Less than one percent of Americans owned at least one car by the end of the 1950s.
E) No Americans owned cars as the automobile had not yet been invented in the 1950s.

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A) American women were fueling the economy by spending, rather than by marching off to industrial jobs as Soviet women did.
B) The rise of communism in the United States was due to the presence of communist infiltrators in the federal government.
C) Americans were spending more due to higher wages, veterans' benefits, and the release of pent-up demand after the war.
D) The United States was obligated to prevent the "dominoes" from falling to the communists for fear that they would tip off the next dominoes and begin a process of communist world domination.
E) The United States could not afford another land war against the Soviet Union and its allies.

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