Chapter 21 Search for Stability   1. Why did Dwight D. Eisenhower run for president in 1952?     A) Eisenhower ran against the alleged corruption of Richard Nixon while in Congress.     B) Eisenhower had wanted to run in 1948 but could not get any support for his candidacy.     C) Eisenhower feared that isolationists might win the White House.     D) Eisenhower wanted to continue the policies of President Harry S Truman.   2. What did Dwight D. Eisenhower pledge that convinced the American people to vote for him in 1952?     A) to go to Korea if elected     B) to increase everyone's income     C) to put an end to labor unions     D) to select Richard Nixon as his running mate   3. Who were the labor leaders who joined their unions to found the AFL-CIO?     A) George Meany and Oveta Culp Hobby     B) George Meany and Walter Reuther     C) Sherman Adams and Betty Friedan     D) Sherman Adams and Walter Reuther   4. Why did Sherman Adams leave his job at the White House?     A) Adams voluntarily retired from the job.     B) Adams left the job to run for Congress.     C) Adams was forced to resign because of a scandal.     D) Adams left the White House to work for a wealthy industrialist in Boston.   5. In 1959, two new states were added to the Union. What are they?     A) Alaska and Arizona     B) Hawaii and New Mexico     C) Arizona and New Mexico     D) Alaska and Hawaii   6. What in American society was most responsible for the rapid growth of suburbs?     A) minority groups     B) the development of shopping malls     C) the automobile     D) railroads   7. How did the Highway Act of 1956 contribute to the growth of suburbs?     A) It set up an interstate highway system where none existed.     B) It established toll booths on the interstate highway system.     C) It funded the building of subways in major cities.     D) It added thousands of miles of highway to the interstate highway system.   8. What was the "American Dream" of the 1950s?     A) a new permissiveness     B) keeping racial and religious minorities out of the suburbs     C) a home in the suburbs, a television, and a new car     D) the conformity of life in the suburbs   9. Which of these statements is most accurate?     A) Women tended to work after they finished school and marry later in life in the 1950s.     B) The nation's birthrate after the war stayed about the same as it was during World War II.     C) The number of working women rose in the 1950s, but women lost ground in the workplace.     D) Most women were earning as much as men in comparable jobs.   10. When were the baby boom years?     A) 1945 to 1961     B) 1945 to 1955     C) 1945 to 1959     D) 1950 to 1959   11. Why were the 1950s sometimes called the "Golden Age of Television"?     A) Televisions were almost as common as telephones in the homes of Americans.     B) Television appealed to the lowest common denominator of public taste.     C) Many talented writers, comedians, musicians, and actors flocked to the new medium.     D) Beginning in 1952, television brought national politics into American living rooms.   12. Which of these organizations was founded to help keep communism from spreading to Latin America?     A) SEATO     B) OAS     C) CENTO     D) NATO   13. Who wielded the most influence on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy?     A) the CIA     B) Gamal Abdel Nasser     C) John Foster Dulles     D) Fidel Castro   14. Which of the following best sums up the Eisenhower Doctrine?     A) The United States would build the Aswan Dam across the Nile River if Egypt promised to stop dealing with communist nations.     B) The United States promised military aid to any Latin American country that resisted communism.     C) The United States would send military assistance to defend any Middle Eastern country that requested help against communism.     D) The United States would send economic aid to any country that promised to align itself with America against communism.   15. During the cold war, both "thaws" and "freezes" kept the whole world tense and in fear of actual war. Sometimes a relatively minor event would trigger a change in the status of the cold war. Which of the following caused the cancellation of an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev?     A) Nikita Khrushchev condemned Stalin as a brutal tyrant.     B) The Soviets threatened to cut off West Berlin from the West.     C) Nikita Khrushchev met with President Eisenhower at Camp David.     D) A United States U-2 surveillance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.