A.   The poverty rate increased by 1959.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D.   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.

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

A.   Core New Deal programs are kept in place.

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

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

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

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

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.   a society that deemed marriage and motherhood as inadequate.

B.   embracing personal freedom through public smoking and drinking.

C.   how to achieve the suburban dream.

D.   the emptiness of consumer culture.

E.   the lack of opportunities for educated women.

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

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

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

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

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

A.   TRUE

B.   FALSE

A.   placed importance on respect for basic liberties.

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

C.   froze each countries arsenal of intercontinental missiles.

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

A.   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.

B.   examines rebellious youth better known as juvenile delinquents.

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

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

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

A.   TRUE

B.   FALSE

A.   coined the term "Black Power" in 1966.

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

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

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.   FALSE

B.   TRUE