HIS 122 ch 32 – Flashcards
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Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:
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the gross national product almost doubled
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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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After the war, Americans were most eager to:
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purchase
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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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While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:
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black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
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The baby boom:
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started in 1946
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Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
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significantly increased
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During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:
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widened
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All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:
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family savings
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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 location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
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Long Island
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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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Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:
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the rural South
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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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By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:
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uniformity
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In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:
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bigness and concentration
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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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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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By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:
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belonged to a church
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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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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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The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:
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a cheerful approach to life and religion
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The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr emerged as:
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a critic of social conformity and complacency
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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 Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:
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"homogeneous, postwar Hell"
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Houses in Levittown in the mid-1950s all sold for just under:
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$8,000
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In The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman described the dominant corporate personality as one who:
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tried to please people and gain the boss's favor
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Willy Loman was:
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the tragic lead character in Death of a Salesman
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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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Jackson Pollack pioneered the style of painting known as:
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abstract expressionism
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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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Howl was:
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an explicit prose poem by Allen Ginsberg
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Ultimately, the Beats:
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helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s
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In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as:
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consumers
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FBI director J. Edgar Hoover blamed rising rates of juvenile delinquency on:
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lack of religious values
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Alan Freed was a notable:
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disc jockey
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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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Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
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suggestive gyrations on stage
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One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:
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bridge class and racial divisions
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In retrospect, the material successes of the 1950s:
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created new problems that would be addressed in the 1960s
