History Quiz: Post-WWII and the Nobel Peace Prize

Vocabulary flashcard covering key historical figures and honors from the quiz review.

George C. Marshall

The American Secretary of State who was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1953 for his efforts to prevent future wars.

The Cold War was the decades, long struggle between the United States and blank

Soviet Union

The American blank association spend $1.5 million to defend President Truman‘s proposal for national healthcare

Medical

Which of these is not a true statement about the end of the Korean war

A peace treaty was signed officially ending the war on July 27, 1953

In 1948 in blank the US Supreme Court held back courts could not enforce real Estate convenience

Shelley versus Kramer

By 1955 about half of all homes had

Television

In 1951 president Truman accused general blank of insubordination

MacArthur

Until 1954 racial segregation was required in blank states

17

The US Army estimated that as many as blank percent of the casualties that soldiers suffered from psychological

20

In 1947 blank became the first African-American to play baseball in the National League

Jackie Robinson

Which of the following did not happen in 1949?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing information to the Soviet Union

His account of the Salem Witch trials in Massachusetts was really an Allegory for the McCarthy hearings

Arthur Miller

The biggest housing boom after World War III came in this area

Suburbs

Which of the following is not a true statement about the Eisenhower presidency?

He opposed most of the new deal and tried to in Social Security

Which of the following is not a true statement about women in the workforce after World War II?

Most women 70 to 95% did not wish to keep their jobs

According to the map on page 846 of the text in 1954 school segregation was forbidden and all the following states except

Louisiana

The annual production of passenger cars leaped from 2.2 million to blank between 1946 and 1955

8 million

President Truman‘s domestic policy was called the

Fair deal

In the Korean War, what country surprised the United States by suddenly sending troops into the war

China

Besides encouraging a fleeing of youthful rebellion rock ‘n’ roll also began to tear down color barriers as what you sought African-American musicians, such as

Chuck Berry

Which of the following it was not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO

East Germany

On December 1, 1955 blank and African-Americans seamstress refused to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus

Rosa Parks

In blank in 1946 the US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional

MORGAN versus the Commonwealth of Virginia

In the career war who supplied North Korea with war material

The Soviet Union

A young minister named blank was an important figure in Montgomery bus boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1957 with the protection of the US armies 101st airborne division nine brave black student students integrated the high school in

Little Rock

Which of the following is not a true statement about the murder of Emmett till

Two men were convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled the concept of separate but equal unconstitutional

BROWN versus Board of Education

In 1949 the Chinese nationalist government fled to

Taiwan

In 1947 the Nassau country Long Island thousands of prefabricated houses were constructed in new community called

Levittown

The European Recovery Program that provided billions in US economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II was known as the

Marshall Plan

In 1948, the Western Allies responded to a Soviet blockade by flying food and supplies to West Berlin in the

Berlin Airlift

The 1944 act that provided World War II veterans with funding for college education, low-cost home mortgages, and unemployment benefits was the

GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

In 1955, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states formed a mutual defense organization called the

Warsaw Pact

In 1953, this American medical researcher developed the first successful polio vaccine, which was declared safe and effective in 1955

Jonas Salk

The foreign policy doctrine established in 1947 to provide economic and military assistance to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism was the

Truman Doctrine

The US diplomat whose 1946 "Long Telegram" formulated the policy of containment toward the Soviet Union was

George F. Kennan

In 1950, the Korean War began when North Korean forces crossed the blank parallel to invade South Korea

38th

The Wisconsin senator who launched a campaign in 1950 claiming that numerous communists had infiltrated the US State Department was

Joseph McCarthy

The 1956 legislation signed by President Eisenhower that authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile national highway network was the

Federal Highway Act (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act)