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The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

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favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz

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The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:

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Ralph Ellison

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One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:

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the desire to combat godless communism

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By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

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belonged to a church

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In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:

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consolidation and concentration

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In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:

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struck down "separate but equal" in public education

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The baby boom:

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started in 1946

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Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that:

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"books and babies don't mix"

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The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s:

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was a major cause of the growth of the suburbs

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Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under:

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$6,900

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One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:

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the Pledge of Allegiance

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The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:

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Long Island

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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he:

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divided the world into forces of good and evil

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With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

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give up their jobs to returning veterans

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The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:

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faith, enthusiasm, and joy

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Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved:

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averting war through the threat of nuclear force

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During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

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widened

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After the war, Americans were most eager to:

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purchase

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Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

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new problems and forms of exploitation

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The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

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the sunbelt

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By the mid-1950s, most workers:

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were white collar

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Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

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military

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Alan Freed was a notable:

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disc jockey

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Elvis was especially controversial because of his:

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suggestive gyrations on stage

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Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:

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the rural South

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Adlai E. Stevenson was:

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Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956

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Two decades after 1940:

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life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold

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In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

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persistence of poverty

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While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:

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black veterans encountered barriers to entrance

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Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

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significantly increased

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During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:

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he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"

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Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:

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the U.S. Army

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A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

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prevent the return of the Depression

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The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:

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Dien Bien Phu

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By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

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uniformity

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Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from:

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excessive conformity

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In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:

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"homogeneous, postwar Hell"

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Elvis Presley's recordings:

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blended a variety of musical styles

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The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually:

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rhythm and blues

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In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

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retained most and even expanded some of them

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Ultimately, the Beats:

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helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s

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In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower:

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refused to halt their executions

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The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

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cold war-related military spending

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Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:

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France

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Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

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Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

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Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as:

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abstract expressionism

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Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

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a white suburban housewife

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