A.   The poverty rate increased by 1959.

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

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

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

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

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

B.   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.

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

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

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

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

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

E.   Core New Deal programs are kept in place.

A.   supported strongly the notion of unregulated capitalism.

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

C.   understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.

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

A.   how to achieve the suburban dream.

B.   a society that deemed marriage and motherhood as inadequate.

C.   the emptiness of consumer culture.

D.   embracing personal freedom through public smoking and drinking.

E.   the lack of opportunities for educated women.

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

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

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

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

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

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE

A.   froze each countries arsenal of intercontinental missiles.

B.   was an example of how President Ford dismissed Nixon's policy of Detente.

C.   dismantled Europe's post-World War II boundaries.

D.   placed importance on respect for basic liberties.

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

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

C.   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.

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

E.   examines rebellious youth better known as juvenile delinquents.

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE

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

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

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.   coined the term "Black Power" in 1966.

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE