#1All of the following led to increased American anxiety in the 1950s EXCEPT:
Communism
Climate change.
Beats, Beatniks, and Bohemians.
The civil rights struggle.
#2Programs like the GI Bill were federal programs that helped many Americans:
Gnvest in the stock market for the first time..
Rehabilitate aging inner city cores.
Achieve health care coverage for the first time.
Achieve middle-class status
#3How did the Soviet Union seek to win influence in the "third world" in the 1950s?
By running television advertisements.
By offering free health care to any nation that would pledge its loyalty to the Soviet Union.
By criticizing the United States as a "mongrel" society.
By criticizing American race relations as inconsistent with American values.
#4All of the following were examples of cultural pushback against the ideals of 1950s America EXCEPT:
Rock and roll.
Playboy magazine.
The beats and the beatniks.
The Waverly Place statement.
#5The counterculture of the 1960s can best be described as:
A rejection of mainstream American values.
A movement that condemned drug use.
A movement that emphasized conformity.
A movement that rejected consumer culture.
#6When Birmingham police chief “Bull” Connor used nightsticks, high-pressure hoses, and attack dogs on young civil rights protestors:
There was little public response.
There was public outcry, but only in the North.
There was a wave of revulsion globally.
President Kennedy abandoned his support for the civil rights movement.
#7The legacies of the 1960s include:
Fewer personal freedoms
A broader conception of personal liberties
The return of school prayer
An end to the welfare state
#8President Johnson's “war on poverty”:
Implemented national health insurance for all Americans
Launched a war on dependence on Middle East oil.
Tried to implement programs in South Vietnam to teach the values of democracy
Implemented the Head Start program, which provided early schooling, meals, and medical exams for poor preschool-age children.
#9The American Indian movement:
Was in opposition to the Red Power movement.
Demanded the end of the tribal system.
Demanded greater tribal self-government.
Urged all Indians to leave their reservations