AMH 2020: Quiz #12: Chapter 30

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

"books and babies don't mix"

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

France

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

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits

While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:

black veterans encountered barriers to entrance

Elvis Presley's recordings:

blended a variety of musical styles

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

cold war-related military spending

By the mid-1950s, an increasing number of workers:

did mental rather than physical labor

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

having babies

Two decades after 1940:

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

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

prevent the return to the Depression

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

retained most and even expanded some of them

The artist Jackson Pollock became notorious for:

spattering paint onto canvases on the floor

The baby boom:

started in 1946

In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education

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

the U. S. Army

The most enduring novels of the postwar period featured:

the individual's struggle for survival amid the smothering forces of mass society

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

uniformity

The nation's suburban population by 1970 was overwhelmingly:

white