american history chapter 26 – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Which of the following phenomena served as an engine of postwar economic growth?
answer
Spending on national security
question
When Eisenhower said, "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought," he was referring to the
answer
military-industrial complex.
question
The space race began after
answer
Americans learned that the Soviet Union had launched the first space satellite.
question
During the 1950s, military spending amounted to what percentage of U.S. gross national product?
answer
10 percent
question
Which of the following was the predominant tendency in business during the twenty years following World War II?
answer
The consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms
question
Which of the following describes the economic changes taking place in the United States during the 1950s?
answer
Consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility.
question
Which of the following statements characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American women during the 1950s?
answer
Cultural messages indicated that domesticity should be women's highest priority.
question
Between 1940 and 1960, church membership in the United States
answer
rose to 70 percent.
question
Which of the following economic statistics represented the U.S. economy in the post-World War II period?
answer
Between 1947 and 1975, the productivity of America's workers more than doubled.
question
The broadly based postwar labor-management accord brought
answer
a general acceptance of collective bargaining.
question
Which of the following was a popular television program of the 1950s that depicted American working-class lives?
answer
The Honeymooners
question
Which of the following statements describes television in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s?
answer
It transformed American culture as much as the automobile had in the 1920s.
question
Which of the following factors precipitated the urban crisis of the 1950s and 1960s?
answer
The flight of white urban residents to the suburbs
question
Beginning in the 1960s, the influx of Cuban refugees rapidly changed the character of
answer
Miami.
question
Which of the following statements characterizes the innovations in housing construction pioneered by William Levitt after World War II?
answer
His company pioneered the application of mass-production techniques to home construction.
question
Which of the following characterizes many of the newly built suburban communities in the 1950s?
answer
They were generally homogeneous in their population.
question
The term restrictive covenants in this period usually refers to
answer
prohibitions on black residents in some communities.
question
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
answer
Hugh Hefner—founder of Playboy magazine
question
Which of the following job categories grew explosively in the United States in the 1950s and came to symbolize the
answer
White-collar managers
question
The GI Bill (1944) stimulated the American economy byera?
answer
subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages.
question
Which of the following became a symbol of the postwar housing boom in the United States?
answer
Levittown
question
Which of the following phenomena served as a major engine for consumption in the United States during the 1950s?
answer
The baby boom
question
Michael Harrington's 1962 book The Other America exposed
answer
poverty in America.
question
Which of the following describes Alan Freed, who made his mark on American culture in the 1950s?
answer
His Cleveland radio show introduced white America to black music.
question
Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family life in the postwar decades?
answer
Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector.
question
Which of the following statements describes post-World War II America?
answer
Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world.
question
In the 1950s, evangelist Norman Vincent Peale preached
answer
the therapeutic use of religion.
question
Immigration policy in the 1950s led to
answer
the legal resumption of Asian immigration.
question
An unexpected result of building the interstate highway system was that it
answer
precipitated the decay of American urban areas.
question
How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the 1950s?
answer
They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic responsibilities.
question
Which of the following economic statistics represented the U.S. economy in the post-World War II period?
answer
Between 1947 and 1975, the productivity of America's workers more than doubled.
question
n the 1950s, most Puerto Rican immigrants settled in
answer
New York City.
question
Which of the following factors spurred congressional approval of the Interstate Highway Act?
answer
The Cold War
question
Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Charlie Parker were all associated with
answer
cultural rebellion.
question
The ideal family, as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a father as the breadwinner, was
answer
not representative of diverse American culture.
question
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s?
answer
In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
question
Which of the following describes the famous kitchen debate of 1959?
answer
It settled no greater political purpose, but it revealed the commercialism of the postwar American dream.
question
Which of the following statements is true about the post-World War II U.S. economy?
answer
American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite Americans.
question
The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s America was most evident in the dramatic rise in popularity of
answer
Billy Graham.
question
Which of the following job categories grew explosively in the United States in the 1950s and came to symbolize the era?
answer
White-collar managers
question
The Beat generation of the 1950s rejected
answer
political activism.
question
The Affluent Society (1958) was one of the most influential books about the U.S. economy in the twentieth century because it
answer
argued that the poor had been neglected by economists and politicians.
question
Which of the following describes the urban renewal projects that took place in U.S. cities in the 1950s?
answer
Urban renewal efforts coincided with an increase in cities' black, Latino, and Native American populations.
question
Which of the following was an impetus for the post-World War II baby boom?
answer
The declining average age of marriage for women and men
question
Which of the following exemplified the sexual conservatism that characterized the period from 1945 to the mid-1960s?
answer
College women had curfews and needed permission to entertain male visitors.
question
Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin are both associated with
answer
the polio vaccine.
