Deck 27: Postwar Culture and Politics, 1945-1960

Question 1

What was President Eisenhower's most important and far-reaching domestic initiative?

A) The establishment of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
B) The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
C) Funding for a huge increase in Social Security benefits
D) The most progressive civil rights bill since Reconstruction

Answer 1

The passage of the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956

Question 2

What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office?

A) A lobby of major industrialists eager to reduce government expenditures on military weaponry
B) A partnership between military leaders and industrialists to raise the rate of inflation
C) An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems
D) A collaboration between the military and industry to push the economy toward technology for which most American workers were not trained

Answer 2

An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems

Question 3

The three-part program for compensating, "terminating," and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration's commitment to

A) expanding the size and scope of the federal government.
B) strengthening tribal governments and preserving Indian culture.
C) encouraging Native American militancy.
D) limiting the scope of federal government activity.

Answer 3

limiting the scope of federal government activity.

Question 4

When Hungarian freedom fighters mounted a revolt against the Soviet-controlled government of their country in 1956, the Eisenhower administration

A) engaged in emergency negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev to prevent American-Soviet hostilities.
B) sent troops to protect the protesters but did not aid the insurrection.
C) did nothing, because Eisenhower was unwilling to risk American soldiers or possible nuclear war.
D) sent arms and supplies to aid the freedom fighters but did not commit any troops to the ground.

Question 5

President Eisenhower viewed communism in Vietnam as

A) a force that had to be stopped because the French, an important U.S. ally, wanted it stopped.
B) something his administration had to stamp out no matter what the costs.
C) a force that had to be stopped before it spread to Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
D) a low-priority issue because Vietnam was in Southeast Asia and not in Eastern Europe.

Question 6

In the context of President Eisenhower's policy toward Native Americans, termination meant

A) stopping all forms of discrimination against American Indians.
B) stripping Native Americans of their U.S. citizenship.
C) ending the federal government's special relationship with the Indians by transferring jurisdiction over tribal lands to state and local governments.
D) removing the funding limits Congress had placed on federal aid to Native Americans and increasing spending to provide hospitals and schools on reservations.

Question 7

In what direction did Eisenhower, the first Republican to serve as president after the New Deal, take the federal government during his second term?

A) He reduced the federal government's size and functions.
B) He extended government protection for corporate interests in every instance.
C) He left the size and functions of the federal government intact.
D) He dismantled much of the Democratic social welfare state.

Question 8

What was the key to President Eisenhower's New Look in foreign policy?

A) A conventional army three times the size of the Soviet army
B) A smaller conventional army bolstered by strength in airpower and nuclear weapons
C) The dismantling of Truman's containment policies
D) A commitment to raise arms against all nations unfriendly to Western capitalism

Question 9

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles supported a foreign policy strategy of

A) talking with Soviet officials to make sure the Soviet Union and the United States understood each other.
B) going to the brink of war to halt the Soviets' efforts to extend their territory any farther.
C) rotating diplomatic personnel between the Soviet Union and the United States so the two nations could better understand each other's foreign policy.
D) an all-out nuclear assault on the Soviets if they even looked as though they were about to encroach on the free world.

Question 10

What was the Eisenhower administration's approach to social welfare programs?

A) It rolled back federal expenditures on social welfare programs.
B) It quietly killed social welfare programs that benefited the poor.
C) It allowed the welfare state to grow and the federal government to take on new projects.
D) It turned over most social welfare programs to the states with the promise of matching federal funds.

Question 11

Why did many Cuban people support the uprising led by Fidel Castro against Fulgencio Batista in 1959?

A) They were charmed by Castro's charisma and swayed by his eloquence.
B) They had a strong desire for political and economic autonomy.
C) They believed that Batista had stolen the election from Castro in 1958.
D) They had a strong belief in capitalism as the best economic system.

Question 12

What was one unintended consequence of the federal government's program to relocate Native Americans?

A) A militant pan-Indian movement emerged two decades later.
B) Almost all Native Americans permanently moved from reservations to cities.
C) Native Americans migrated to the locations that had been World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans.
D) Native Americans experienced unprecedented financial prosperity.

Question 13

Which Egyptian leader seized the Suez Canal in July 1956?

A) Gamal Abdel Nasser
B) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
C) Mohammed Mossadegh
D) Jacobo Arbenz

Question 14

How did the United States react to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957?

A) It cut funding for education and diverted it to the military.
B) It passed legislation providing support for students in math, foreign languages, science, and technology.
C) It initiated covert plans for the CIA to infiltrate the Soviet missile agency and steal its technology.
D) It initiated a plan for a satellite defense system to protect the United States and Western Europe from new Soviet weapons.

Question 15

Between 1955 and 1961, the United States spent $800 million in South Vietnam, most of it to

A) fund U.S. troops who were deployed there.
B) fund the South Vietnamese army.
C) prime the economy there.
D) build new U.S. air bases there.

Question 16

President Eisenhower believed that the development of nuclear power for domestic purposes should

A) be left in the hands of private enterprise.
B) be controlled by the government.
C) be monitored by regional commissions.
D) not be considered because it was too dangerous.

Question 17

Which of the following describes President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "middle way" politics in the early 1950s?

A) His domestic agenda and leadership style were guided by moderation.
B) He promised to share more of his duties with his liberal vice president.
C) He asked Congress to allocate half the U.S. budget to domestic concerns and the other half to fighting the Cold War.
D) He sought a middle ground between Democrats and Republicans by setting out to dismantle New Deal policy.

Question 18

What was the purpose of the Eisenhower Doctrine?

A) To aid any Middle Eastern nation requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international communism
B) To assume the obligation to monitor human rights violations in Latin America and address them with diplomatic and military solutions, if necessary
C) To protect and defend the state of Israel from any threats mounted by Arab or Islamist terrorists
D) To promote democracy and capitalism around the world through art, literature, music, and other cultural media

Question 19

What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?

A) He charged that President Eisenhower was a Communist.
B) He insisted that thousands of federal employees were disloyal to the United States.
C) He announced that Communists in the Republican party outnumbered those in the Democratic party.
D) He conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists.

Question 20

In the 1950s, the CIA intervened in the internal affairs of which of the following countries?

A) Ethiopia
B) Afghanistan
C) Guatemala
D) Hungary

Question 21

Why were the South and West sometimes referred to as the Gun Belt?

A) The incidence of violent crime there had increased along with the population.
B) The regions had captured the lion's share of Cold War spending.
C) Most of the major small arms manufacturers in the nation had shifted their operations to the regions.
D) None of the states in those regions required that civilians have a license to carry firearms.

Question 22

How did rock and roll challenge American social and cultural norms in the 1950s?

A) It advocated for racial discrimination.
B) It was sexually suggestive.
C) It celebrated crime and drugs.
D) It encouraged political radicalism.

Question 23

Which of the following describes higher education in the United States between 1940 and 1960?

A) It became increasingly available to veterans, the middle class, and African Americans.
B) It was less expensive than before World War II but still available only to the privileged.
C) It was available for women of traditional college age but was not available to married women.
D) Because of major demographic changes, it became more available to women than to men.

Question 24

What was one cause of the unparalleled material abundance of the United States in the 1950s?

A) The practice of purchasing stocks on margin
B) A population increase of almost 30 million
C) War reparations from Germany, Italy, and Japan
D) The declining power of American labor unions

Question 25

What was sociologist David Riesman's criticism of American society in his 1950 book The Lonely Crowd?

A) He lamented the growing conformity in American society.
B) He criticized Americans' disregard for the plight of the poor.
C) He wrote that American parents failed to address rising rates of juvenile delinquency.
D) He criticized the society's rejection of capitalism and traditional gender roles.

Question 26

In the 1950s, most employed American women worked in

A) a variety of professional positions.
B) clerical, service, and domestic jobs.
C) production-line jobs in heavy industry.
D) various administrative occupations in higher education.

Question 27

What caused the smog that plagued Los Angeles in the 1950s?

A) Sprawling urban and suburban settlements without efficient public transportation
B) Massive industrial growth combined with limited population
C) A huge electric power project that required diversion of the city's waterways and the cutting of its trees
D) The inefficiency of the diesel-powered buses and trains that made up the city's extensive public transportation system

Question 28

In her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that

A) the idealization of domesticity pressured women to seek fulfillment in serving others.
B) women should not be entering the workplace but should be at home with their children.
C) divorced fathers should never be given custody of children under age fourteen.
D) women were not as intelligent as men even with access to higher education and training.

Question 29

In which of the following ways did television affect U.S. politics in the 1950s?

A) It aired Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, which nearly ruined his political career.
B) It allowed candidates to appeal directly to voters in their homes, which elevated the importance of politicians' personal attractiveness.
C) The expense of TV ads made political parties, which raised money for candidates, larger, stronger, and more important.
D) Television was dominated by liberals, who had a strong influence on American voters.

Question 30

The output of American farms increased between 1940 and 1960, while the number of farmworkers

A) increased proportionately.
B) decreased by nearly one-third.
C) slowly increased over time.
D) decreased by half.

Question 31

How did union membership as a percentage of the labor force in the United States change during the 1950s?

A) It fell to its lowest point of the twentieth century.
B) It hit the highest point at 49 percent in 1954.
C) It peaked at just over 27 percent in 1957.
D) Having peaked in 1949, it fell throughout the decade.

Question 32

What did Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow call television after he surveyed what it offered to Americans in 1961?

A) A cultural marvel
B) A government-sponsored propaganda machine
C) A vehicle that Americans can use to surpass the rest of the world
D) A vast wasteland

Question 33

What did "Operation Wetback" reveal about most white Americans?

A) They supported large-scale immigration from Latin America.
B) They generally opposed the permanent immigration of Mexicans.
C) They favored more U.S. aid to Mexico over immigration.
D) They were willing to base their political decisions on candidates' positions on Mexican immigration.

Question 34

In most cities during the 1950s, the black population

A) dropped by 50 percent as African Americans migrated to the suburbs.
B) doubled as African Americans sought economic opportunities.
C) remained about the same because the growth of black suburbs cancelled out African Americans' urban migration.
D) dropped by nearly 50 percent as African Americans migrated south for agricultural work.

Question 35

Who wrote the best-selling books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female?

A) William H. Whyte Jr.
B) Alfred Kinsey
C) Vance Packard
D) Allen Ginsberg

Question 36

What was one reason many Americans moved to the Sun Belt in the 1950s?

A) The growing expense of heating fuels, which made the warm climate more economical
B) Eisenhower's policy of termination, which freed up millions of acres of former Indian reservation land
C) The advent of air-conditioning, which made it possible to live and work in the region more comfortably
D) The move toward an automobile-based society, which made it easier for most people to move south and west

Question 37

Some critics suggested that the reason for renewed interest in religion during the 1950s was

A) a conservative conspiracy organized by the Christian Right.
B) Americans' need for conformity and for social outlets.
C) American veterans' need to seek relief from the effects of their wartime traumas.
D) the rapid growth of televangelism alongside the television industry.

Question 38

What impact did technological advances have on American industry in the 1950s?

A) They increased the number of jobs available to unskilled industrial workers.
B) They coincided with a decrease in union activity and membership.
C) They chipped away at the number of jobs in heavy industry.
D) They chipped away at the number of service jobs in the American economy.

Question 39

Between 1950 and 1960, the percentage of American families with television sets grew from less than 10 percent to

A) 25 percent.
B) almost 50 percent.
C) 77 percent.
D) almost 90 percent.

Question 40

What was Levittown, New York?

A) An example of mass-produced affordable housing in the suburbs
B) An example of one of the worst slums in an American city in the Northeast
C) A successful attempt at the racial integration of an American housing development
D) A failed suburban housing development that contributed to the rebirth of cities across the nation

Question 41

The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 can be characterized as

A) symbolic.
B) regressive.
C) ground-breaking.
D) aggressive.

Question 42

Define modern Republicanism as practiced by Dwight D. Eisenhower and cite at least two examples from the 1950s.

Question 43

How did the Eisenhower administration respond to Brown v. Board of Education and issues of racial justice in the second half of the 1950s?

Question 44

The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned which of the following precedents?

A) Concurrent equality established in Purvis v. Bergdorf (1882)
B) Civil segregation established in Chaney v. Gunderson (1906)
C) Separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
D) Purposeful proximity established in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Question 45

How did television offer American families respite from Cold War anxieties?

Question 46

How did containment policy shape the Eisenhower administration's decisions to intervene in the internal affairs of Guatemala, Cuba, and Iran in the 1950s?

Question 47

The work of 1950s authors Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac was known for

A) celebrating the incredible achievements of the modern United States.
B) rejecting almost every aspect of the mainstream culture.
C) suggesting that popular music would change the world.
D) challenging Americans to tune in, turn on, and drop out.

Question 48

Evaluate the Eisenhower administration's nuclear arms policy. Did that policy ease or accelerate the nuclear arms race?

Question 49

How did President Eisenhower ultimately respond to the Arkansas National Guard's attempts to block the enrollment of nine black students in Little Rock's Central High School in 1957?

A) He stayed silent because of his preference for limited federal intervention in the states.
B) He went to Arkansas to escort the black students into the school personally.
C) He sent the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Arkansas to arrest the troops and the state's governor.
D) He sent army troops to Little Rock to oversee the integration of the school.

Question 50

Why did whites in Mississippi murder fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955?

A) He had been involved in civil rights protests.
B) His father was a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leader.
C) He allegedly whistled at a white woman.
D) He had a white girlfriend.

Question 51

Describe the impact-good and bad-of technological advances on life in post-World War II America.

Question 52

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56 persisted until

A) exhausted and demoralized black protestors began riding the buses again.
B) Martin Luther King Jr. called an end to the boycott.
C) the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Alabama's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses.
D) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's right to enact any laws it thought appropriate to govern its people.

Question 53

Which new civil rights organization chose Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader in January of 1957?

A) The Black Panthers
B) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
C) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
D) The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Question 54

Why did the Montgomery, Alabama, police arrest Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955?

A) She would not sit in the black section of the city bus.
B) She refused give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
C) She was unwilling to leave the bus and board it again through the rear door.
D) She was distributing flyers challenging the city's segregation ordinances.

Question 55

What factors accounted for the tremendous surge of consumerism in the United States in the 1950s?

Question 56

Which elements of the kitchen debate indicated a slight thaw in the Cold War? Which elements indicated that the war was ongoing?

Question 57

In what way did the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s differ from previous efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States?

A) Fewer African Americans and more whites were involved.
B) Activists tended more toward rhetoric than toward direct confrontation.
C) It involved masses of people who used civil disobedience to bring about change.
D) African Americans increasingly used violent means to achieve their objectives.

Question 58

How did the Eisenhower administration's Indian policy represent a shift from New Deal-era policy? How did compensation, "termination," and relocation affect Native Americans?

Question 59

The revolution in the visual arts that began in New York City in the 1950s

A) marked a return to the influence of seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch masters.
B) was based on nineteenth-century French impressionism.
C) evolved from the socialist realism of the 1930s and was strictly representative.
D) stressed energy and spontaneity over recognizable forms.

Question 60

What effect did the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s have on American society?

Question 61

Use the following to answer questions :
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
A music genre created from country music and black rhythm and blues that emerged in the 1950s and captivated American youth.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 62

Use the following to answer questions :
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Yearlong boycott of Montgomery's segregated bus system in 1955-56 by the city's African American population. The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated transportation unconstitutional.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 63

Use the following to answer questions :
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
A term President Eisenhower used to refer to the military establishment and defense contractors who, he warned, exercised undue influence in city, state, and federal government.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 64

Use the following to answer questions :
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
1954 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 65

Use the following to answer questions :
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Name applied to the region comprised by the Southwest and South that grew rapidly after World War II as a center of defense industries and non-unionized labor.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 66

How did the Cold War and the emerging military-industrial complex underpin the amazing growth of the U.S. economy in the 1950s? Your answer should cite the growth of scientific research, defense spending, and higher education specifically.

Question 67

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
The surge in the American birthrate between 1945 and 1965, which peaked in 1957 with 4.3 million births. The surge both reflected and promoted Americans' postwar prosperity.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 68

How did the Cold War shape ideals about family life in America, especially the lives of white women?

Question 69

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Uprising led by Fidel Castro that drove out U.S.-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista and eventually allied Cuba with the Soviet Union.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 70

Discuss the importance of the cooperation between trained activists and grassroots protesters in the civil rights movement of the 1950s.

Question 71

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Law authorizing the construction of a national transportation system. Promoted as essential to national defense and an impetus to economic growth, the system accelerated the movement of people and goods and changed the nature of American communities.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 72

Beginning in the 1950s, maintaining a non-Communist South Vietnam became crucial to American efforts to contain communism. How did the Eisenhower administration go about this? What was the nation's justification for its actions in South Vietnam in the 1950s? How did it balance its commitments to both containing communism and supporting the right to national self-determination?

Question 73

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
President Eisenhower's 1957 declaration that the United States would actively combat communism in the Middle East. Following this declaration, Congress approved the policy, and Eisenhower sent aid to Jordan in 1957 and troops to Lebanon in 1958.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 74

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Term for the standoff between the United States and Soviet Union based on the assumption that a nuclear first strike by either nation would result in massive retaliation and decimation for each. Despite this, both countries pursued an ever-escalating arms race.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 75

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
1954 Supreme Court decision that found that the systematic exclusion of Mexican Americans from juries violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt

Question 76

The federal government and federal court actions had a significant impact on the rights and status of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans during the 1950s. What spurred federal action on these issues during the Cold War era? What were the positive and negative outcomes for these groups?

Question 77

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Theory of containment articulated by President Eisenhower in the context of Vietnam. He warned that the fall of a non-Communist government to communism would trigger the spread of communism to neighboring countries.

A)baby boom
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)Cuban revolution
D)domino theory
E)Eisenhower Doctrine
F)Hernandez v. Texas
G)Interstate Highway and Defense System Act of 1956
H)military-industrial complex
I)Montgomery bus boycott
J)mutually assured destruction (MAD)
K)rock and roll
L)Sun Belt