The Republicans return quiz one

A democrat

For 20 years, the US president had been

Police action

Democrats led the US through a depressionhot, and Cold War and

Dwight D Eisenhower (442 electoral votes)

Republican president nominee for 1952

Richard Nixon

Republican VP nominee for 1952

Adlai E. Stevenson (89)

Democratic president nominee for 1952

John Sparkman

Democratic VP nominee for 1952

Stevenson

Wage one of the most eloquent campaigns in US history

I like Ike

Eisenhower’s campaign slogan

End the war in Korea, and pound communism and corruption

Ike promised to…?

Denison, Texas

Where was Dwight D. Eisenhower born?

Abilene, KS

Where did Dwight D. Eisenhower move to?

US military academy at West Point

Education of Dwight D. Eisenhower?

The Allied expeditionary force (AEF) to victory over Germany

Dwight D. Eisenhower led?

Dwight D Eisenhower

President of Columbia University

Dwight D Eisenhower

First supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe

John Foster Dulles

Who did Eisenhower choose as his Secretary of State?

Japanese peace treaty

Dulles negotiated the US…

Defense. reduce size of our armed forces, making us depend on the atomic bomb

Eisenhower believe in balancing a budget this meant spending less on…? Causing a…?

Hydrogen Bomb (Hbomb)

US successfully tested a new kind of bomb

Massive retaliation

Secretary of State Dulles threatened what…? against the Soviet Union or communist China if they attacked any country

Brink of war

Dulles warned we would go to the …. to preserve the peace of the world.

Brinkmanship

We would go to the brink of war to preserve the peace of the world. This policy is called.??

HoChi Minh

fall of Japan in 1945 led to Vietnam, being liberated and led by communist….

France

Wanted to bring down HoChi Minh and instead of its own puppet government

Contain communism

After fall of China to communist, US saw Vietnam as a wall needed to??

US

Began helping French with money and arms

conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

France, Great Britain, and Soviet Union, China, and US.

To settle the Indochina question. Who attended??

Bao-Dai

Southern half would be a free government under the former emperor of Vietnam

Division of Vietnam

Secretary of State Dulles feared all of Asia would want to come

Southeast Asia treaty organization (SEATO)

Pledge joint action in case of aggression against any member of Cambodia Laos and South Vietnam

Australia, Britain, France New Zealand Palestine, the Philippines, Thailand and the US

Countries to sign the Southeast Asia treaty

Paris Pack 1954

Western Powers agreed to full sovereignty for the federal republic of Germany, (Western Germany)

Nikita Khrushchev

This person came to power after Stalin died of a stroke

Summit

The Soviets proposed a _ conference

Geneva, Switzerland

Heads of US USSR, Britain and France met in…

Model V-2

Even without Soviet permission, US began spy flights over Russia by the new…

over-production

In the US, the basic farm problem was

New machinery, better seats, more powerful fertilizer, and pesticides, efficient marketing

Why did the US have an overproduction on farmed goods?

Secretary of agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson

Called for lower and more flexible price supports- said government could never solve the problem of mounting surplus until it stopped paying farmers to overproduce

Soil bank plan

A way of paying farmers for not planting their land

Cabinet Department of health, education, and welfare (HEW)

Eisenhower signed a bill creating a…

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Chairman of the government operations committee who accused the Democrats of 20 years of treason, saying that there were many communist

Oveta Culp Hobby

First secretary of HEW

Secretary of army

Who did McCarthy accuse of concealing evidence of espionage?

TV exposed and defeated McCarthy and his reputation declined

What happened to McCarthy after he went on TV?

Eisenhower (winner)

Election of 1956 republican president?

Richard M Nixon

Election of 1956 republican vp?

Adlai Stevenson

Election of 1956 democratic president?

Estes Kefauver

Election of 1956 democratic vp?

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Approved separate but equal facilities for white and blacks