Your Name: ______

QUIZ: Eisenhower through Carter: Cultural Changes

  1. Give one example of 1950’s consumerism: ______
  2. Give one example of 1950’s conformity: ______
  3. Give one example of 1950’s rebellion: ______
  4. What was the name Eisenhower coined for the business of war and jobs related to war?
  1. What is one example of something the Peace Corps does, then or now?
  1. Who did the Warren Commission name as the only assassin of President Kennedy? ______
  2. Tell me one of the Great Society achievements you believe helps people the most…explain why you think this.
  1. Why did riots break out during the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
  1. What was the name of the group of people that Nixon used to stop leaks in his administration? (the ones that did the Watergatebreak-in) ______
  2. List two positive things Nixon did during his presidency:
  1. What did President Ford do that upset most Americans? ______
  2. Stagflation is a combination of inflation (high prices) and ______.
  3. What two countries did President Carter get to sign a peace treaty at the Camp David Accords?
  1. Why didIran take American hostagesunder Carter’s Presidency?
  2. What did OPEC do to America in 1973 that we hope NEVER happens again?!
  1. Another revolutionary movement you did NOT learn about yesterday, but also just as important, was one sparked by a book called Silent Spring, by Rachael Carson. Read this excerpt describing the book’s importance, and then give me TWO examples of things you could do today to honor the movement this book started:

Silent Springis an environmental science book byRachel Carson.The book was published on 27 September 1962 and it documented the detrimental effects on the environment of the indiscriminate use ofpesticides, mainly DDT. Carson accused thechemical industryof spreadingdisinformationand public officials of accepting industryclaimsunquestioningly.

In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention toconservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result wasSilent Spring(1962), which brought environmental concerns to the American public.Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, but it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, led to a nationwide ban onDDTfor agricultural uses,and inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation of theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Nixon Administration. Later, research into the negative effects of industrial pollution, plastic waste, use of harmful products like CFC’s, found in spray bottles and air conditioning units, and harmful effects of auto emission and methane from large scale farming practices, all forced the Earth Day movement and future awareness of saving the planet from man’s human destruction.

Two things I can do today to honor the movement Racheal Carson started are:

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