Ch. 30 The 1950’s – Flashcards
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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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