HIS 122 ch 32
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:
persistence of poverty
After the war, Americans were most eager to:
purchase
The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually:
rhythm and blues
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
significantly increased
The baby boom:
started in 1946
Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
suggestive gyrations on stage
One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:
the Pledge of Allegiance
One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:
the desire to combat godless communism
Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:
the gross national product almost doubled
Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:
the rural South
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
the sunbelt
Willy Loman was:
the tragic lead character in Death of a Salesman
In The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman described the dominant corporate personality as one who:
tried to please people and gain the boss's favor
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:
uniformity
During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:
widened
By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:
belonged to a church
In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:
bigness and concentration
While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:
black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
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
In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as:
consumers
In retrospect, the material successes of the 1950s:
created new problems that would be addressed in the 1960s
Alan Freed was a notable:
disc jockey
All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:
family savings
The youthful rebels known as the Beats:
favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz
With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:
give up their jobs to returning veterans
Ultimately, the Beats:
helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover blamed rising rates of juvenile delinquency on:
lack of religious values
Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:
new construction of mass public transportation
Blacks who moved to northern cities found:
new problems and forms of exploitation
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
Long Island
In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:
"homogeneous, postwar Hell"
Houses in Levittown in the mid-1950s all sold for just under:
$8,000
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:
Ralph Ellison
The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:
a cheerful approach to life and religion
The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr emerged as:
a critic of social conformity and complacency
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:
a white suburban housewife
Jackson Pollack pioneered the style of painting known as:
abstract expressionism
Howl was:
an explicit prose poem by Allen Ginsberg