All of the following are true about the economic boom in America after World War II except:
It was an industrial economy.
What new technology was crucial to the development of consumerism in the 1950s?
Television
Rock 'n' roll combined which two musical styles?
Blues and bluegrass
Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon gave a nationally televised address in 1952 in response to allegations of what?
He had accepted illegal donations.
What was significant about the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas?
It abolished racial segregation in public schools.
What was the primary reason President Eisenhower backed the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
He believed the roads were essential to national defense.
How did the United States first become involved in Vietnam?
Providing economic aid to the French colonialists fighting Ho Chi Minh
Where did the CIA stage a coup to depose a native leader during the 1950s?
Iran
Why did the planned 1960 summit between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khruschchev collapse?
An American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
In the 1960 presidential election, what was Senator John Kennedy strongly attacked for?
His Roman Catholicism
What does the title of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man refer to?
An African American whose supposed supporters are unable to see him as a real man
What was the essential purpose of President Kennedy's promise to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s?
To restore American prestige in the space race damaged by the Soviets' Sputnik
Why did American military forces enter Vietnam?
To prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists
When did the Bay of Pigs invasion fail?
When the anti-Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military
When did American and world public opinion turn strongly in favor of the civil rights movement?
When Martin Luther King's peaceful demonstrators were attacked in Birmingham