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By the late 1950s,the United States could send a guided missile several thousand miles.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

All the following statements regarding the use of DDT are true EXCEPT that

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A)   the pesticide likely saved the lives of thousands of soldiers during World War II.
B)   the pesticide was recognized to be extremely toxic to insects.
C)   after its introduction, it quickly gained a positive reputation for its effectiveness.
D)   scientists during WWII knew the pesticide had a long-term toxic effect on humans and animals.
E)   it was first used on a large scale in Italy in 1943-1944, during a typhus outbreak.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 3

How do you account for the rise of the civil rights movement?

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Question 4

The Soviet-American Paris summit in 1960 was ended by the downing of a Soviet spy plane over United States airspace.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Rural America

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A)   lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone.
B)   saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than 2 percent in the 1950s.
C)   saw the South increase plantings of cotton as a cash crop in the 1950s.
D)   both lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone, and saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than two percent within the decade of the 1950s.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 6

All of the following researchers made important contributions to the development of antibiotics EXCEPT

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A)   Louis Pasteur.
B)   Paul Muller.
C)   Joseph Lister.
D)   Alexander Fleming.
E)   Howard Florey.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

All of the following statements regarding poverty in America between 1950 and 1960 are true EXCEPT that

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A)   more than 30 million Americans lived in poverty at any given time during the year 1960.
B)   the percentage of the population living in poverty rose during the decade.
C)   Native Americans were the single poorest group in the country.
D)   most of the poor experienced poverty only temporarily.
E)   many rural Americans lived on the margins of the affluent society.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 8

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956

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A)   failed to end the segregation policies on public city buses.
B)   was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.
C)   was sparked by a beating of an African American woman.
D)   marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.
E)   led to the creation of the Congress of Racial Equality (COR
E)  .F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 9

As part of his economic agenda,President Dwight Eisenhower

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A)   cut back public welfare programs.
B)   lowered federal support for farm prices.
C)   generally followed the lead of the right wing of his party.
D)   allowed the federal deficit to rise due to high military spending.
E)   maintained the wage and price controls of the Truman administration.F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

The central character in J.D.Salinger's 1951 book,The Catcher in the Rye,was the alienated prep-school student ________.

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Question 11

The three major television networks in the 1950s had all started as ________ companies.

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Question 12

Following World War II,the American economy

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A)   gave the average American 50 percent more purchasing power in 1960 than in 1945.
B)   gave Americans the highest standard of living in 1960, after Switzerland and Sweden.
C)   grew, between 1945 and 1975, nearly ten times faster than the population.
D)   produced wealth that was equally distributed throughout the nation's population.
E)   gave the average American 10 percent more purchasing power than during the 1920s.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

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On July 27,1953,negotiators at ________ finally signed an agreement ending the hostilities between North and South Korea and established a cease-fire line at roughly the 38th parallel.

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