HIS 112 – Chapter 28
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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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After the war, Americans were most eager to
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purchase
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Alan Freed was a notable
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disc jockey
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All of the following countries were physically damaged during World War II EXCEPT
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the United States
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All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT
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savings
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Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in
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the military
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Before the Second World War, approximately how many people graduated from college in the United States each year?
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about 160,000
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Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership
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significantly increased
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By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans
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belonged to a church
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By 1960, which American city had the largest concentration of Mexican Americans?
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Los Angeles, California
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By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing
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uniformity
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Dulles's policy of \"roll back\" involved
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liberating people under Communist rule
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During the fifties, the U.S. marriage rate
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reached an all-time high
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Dwight Eisenhower considered himself a
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moderate Republican
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Elvis Presley's recordings
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blended a variety of musical styles
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Elvis was especially controversial because of his
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suggestive gyrations on stage
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Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under
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$7,000
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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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In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the
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persistence of poverty
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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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Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was
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white suburban housewife
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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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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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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: those who are Christians and the others
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Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT
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new construction of mass public transportation
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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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The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at
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Dien Bien Phu
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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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The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in
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the sunbelt
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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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Ultimately, the Beats
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helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s
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When the U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia, Eisenhower first
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tried to cover it up
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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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Who wrote that he and other writers felt estranged \"from a government that extolled business and mediocrity\"?
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John Updike
