leadership style
Homework Chapter 27
Answer both the Short Answer and the Review Questions; the vocabulary has been provided for you to study. Submit your answers to the Dropbox labeled Chapter 27 Homework. I will provide answers to you after your submission for you to use to study. You will be graded on your effort. By submitting the work, you are agreeing that this is your work and you have not worked with another student or copied their work. You may submit up to the deadline but NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test
1. How did technology contribute to changes in the economy, suburbanization, and the growth of the Sun Belt? (pp. 909-915)
2. Why did American consumption expand so dramatically in the 1950s, and what aspects of society and culture did it influence? (pp. 915-920)
3. What were the goals and strategies of the civil rights activists in the 1950s? (pp. 920-926)
Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple-choice questions)
1. Describe Eisenhower’s politics of the middle way in the early 1950s.
2. What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?
3. What was President Eisenhower’s most important and far-reaching domestic initiative?
4. In the context of President Eisenhower’s policy toward Native Americans, what did termination mean?
5. In what direction did Eisenhower, the first Republican to serve as president after the New Deal, take the federal government during his second term?
6. What foreign policy strategy was supported by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles?
7. What did the Eisenhower Administration do when Hungarian freedom fighters mounted a revolt against the Soviet-controlled government of their country in 1956?
8. Between 1955 and 1961, the United States spent $800 million in South Vietnam, what was the primary use of most of the money?
9. Why did many Cuban people support the uprising led by Fidel Castro against Fulgencio Batista in 1959?
10. Which Egyptian leader seized the Suez Canal in July 1956?
11. How did the United States react to the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik in 1957?
12. What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office?
13. In the 1950s, most employed American women worked in _____________________________.
14. Describe Levittown, New York.
15. In most cities during the 1950s, what happened to the black population?
16. What was one reason many Americans moved to the Sun Belt in the 1950s?
17. Why were the South and West sometimes referred to as the Gun Belt?
18. Describe higher education in the United States between 1940 and 1960.
19. What was one cause of the unparalleled material abundance of the United States in the 1950s?
20. What did Betty Friedan argue in her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique?
21. What did some critics suggest was the reason for renewed interest in religion during the 1950s?
22. How did television affect U.S. politics in the 1950s?
23. What was sociologist David Riesman’s criticism of American society in his 1950 book The Lonely Crowd?
24. Who wrote the best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female?
25. What was rejected in the work of 1950s authors Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac?
26. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned which precedent?
27. Why did whites in Mississippi murder fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955?
28. How did President Eisenhower ultimately respond to the Arkansas National Guard’s attempts to block the enrollment of nine black students in Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957?
29. Why did the he Montgomery, Alabama, why did police arrest Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955?
30. Which new civil rights organization chose Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader in January of 1957?
Vocabulary: Basis for identification questions on the test. You will be given the term to define.
Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956: Law authorizing the construction of a national highway system. Promoted as essential to national defense and an impetus to economic growth, the national highway system accelerated the movement of people and goods and changed the nature of American communities.
Mutually assured destruction (MAD): Term for the standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union based on the assumption that a nuclear first strike by either nation would result in massive retaliation and mutual destruction for each. Despite this, both countries pursued an ever-escalating arms race.
Domino Theory: Theory of containment articulated by President Eisenhower in the context of Vietnam. He warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.
Cuban revolution: Uprising led by Fidel Castro that drove out U.S.-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista and eventually allied Cuba with the Soviet Union.
Eisenhower Doctrine: President Eisenhower’s 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East. Following this doctrine, Congress approved the policy, and Eisenhower sent aid to Jordan in 1857 and troops to Lebanon in 1958.
Military-industrial complex: A term President Eisenhower used to refer to the military establishment and defense contractors who, he warned, exercised undue influence in city, state, and federal government.
Sun Belt: Name applied to the Southwest and South, which grew rapidly after World War II as a center of defense industries and non-unionized labor.
Hernandez v. Texas: 1957 Supreme Court decision that found that the systematic exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.
Baby Boom: The surge in the American birthrate between 1945 and 1965, which peaked in 1957 with 4.3 million births. The baby boom both reflected and promoted Americans’ postwar prosperity.
Rock and roll: A music genre created from country music and black rhythm and blues that emerged in the 1950s and captivated American youth.
Brown v. Board of Education: 1954 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the “separate but equal” precedent established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Yearlong boycott of Montgomery’s segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city’s African American population. The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregation transportation unconstitutional.
……………………………Answer preview…………………
Describe Eisenhower’s politics of the middle way in the early 1950s.
His domestic agenda and leadership style were guided by moderation
What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?
Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate? – He conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists
What was President Eisenhower’s most important and far-reaching domestic initiative?
The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956………………………….
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