Chapter 37 Questions 1. Why was Dwight Eisenhower the choice to run for president for the Republicans? 2.

Why was Nixon the VP choice? 3. What was the Checkers speech and why was it important? 4. How is the Korean War like WWI? 5. Who was Joseph McCarthy and what were his goals and methods? 6. What was Jim Crow? 7. What prompted the exodus of African Americans to the North after WWII? 8. How did this speed up the Civil Rights movement? 9. How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott make MLK a leader? 10. What thing did Truman do to speed up the Civil Rights movement? 11. How was Earl Warren a different kind of Chief Justice? 12. What was Brown v. Board of Education and what did it do? 13. Why was Ike a reluctant Civil Rights supporter? 14. Who were the Little Rock 9? SCLC? SNCC? 15. How was Ike a classic Republican? 16. What was Operation Wetback and how would such an action fly today? 17. Why was the Highway Act important? 18. What was massive retaliation and how was it bolder than containment? 19. Who was fighting the Communists in Indochina? 20. What two regions made up Indochina? 21. Who led North Vietnam? What was the political/economic philosophy of North Vietnam? 22. What was the 17th parallel? 23. Who was the Shah of Iran? Who installed him? How did the Cold War impact his installation? 24. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? 25. What is OPEC? 26. What was Sputnik? 27. List 3 impacts on America from Sputnik. 28. What kind of governments did the United States support in Latin America in the name of opposing Communism? 29. Who was Castro and what did he do? 30. Why did Nixon get the Republican party nomination in 1960? 31. What were some of the successes and failures of Ikes administration? 32. List several specific ways in which the economy changed during the 50's? 33. What was The Feminine Mystique? 34. Explain the importance of the rising consumer culture of the 1950's. 35. What do you think of the major ideas of John Kenneth Galbreaths Affluent Society?